Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Georgia-Evangelia Katsargyri

Ming Lang Kuang

Ilya V Kolmanovsky

John Ottavio Michelini

Anthony Mark Phillips

Michael Rinehart

Munther Dahleh

A method includes utilizing navigation data from a navigation system to segment a route to be travelled by a travelling vehicle into segments each having a road grade different than neighboring segments. The method further includes discharging a battery of the vehicle as the vehicle travels along an initial segment of the route according to a state-of-charge (SoC) set-point based on the road grade of the initial segment and a variable representative of the road grades of at least two other segments of the route.

Electric vehicle and method of battery set-point control

A path-dependent control of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) includes segmenting an original route into segments. A virtual route based on the remaining portion of the original route is generated once the HEV reaches a current segment of the original route. The virtual route includes a first segment corresponding to the current segment of the original route and a last segment representing at least two other segments of the remaining portion of the original route. Battery SoC set-points for the segments of the virtual route are generated. The vehicle is controlled according to the battery SoC set-point for the first segment of the virtual route as the vehicle travels along the current segment of the original route.

Hybrid electric vehicle and method of path dependent receding horizon control

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Georgia-Evangelia Katsargyri