Eaton Corporation

Chinmaya B Patil

Vasilios Tsourapas

Michael P Nowak

Benjamin Morris

Hassan Al-Atat

Benjamin Saltsman

Zhijun Tang

Dnyaneshwar L Ambhore

Disclosed is an exemplary method for optimizing vehicle performance. The method includes determining an optimized drive torque for maximizing vehicle fuel economy and detecting a driver requested drive torque. A determination is made on whether the driver requested drive torque is performance related or safety related. The arbitrated drive torque is set to the optimized drive torque when it is determined that the driver requested drive torque is not performance and safety related. The arbitrated drive torque is set to the driver requested drive torque when it is determined that the driver requested drive torque is either performance or safety related.

System and method for optimizing fuel economy using predictive environment and driver behavior information

Predicted environment conditions are received for time steps within a prediction horizon N. Information is accessed regarding expected system responses generated by a system model, each expected system response related to a different combination of control parameters and starting environment conditions applied to the model. An optimal response is designated for each combination of starting environment conditions for each time step from time step N&#x2212;1 to the current time step based in part on the expected system response and the predicted environment conditions, each optimal response in a time step based at least in part on an optimal response determined for a later time step. For the current time step, for starting environment conditions substantially similar to the current environment conditions, the combination of control parameters that results in the system response designated as the optimal response is determined from the expected system responses and is applied to the system.

Duty cycle independent real time dynamic programming implementation for hybrid systems controls optimization

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Farmington Hills, MI, United States of America

Chinmaya B Patil