Cummins Inc.

Pinak Jayant Tulpule

Kenneth M Follen

Vivek Anand Sujan

Arun Prakash Thunga Gopal

Mugdha S Sane

Archit N Koti

Edmund P Hodzen

Martin T Books

Michael Haas

Govindarajan Kothandaraman

Praveen Chitradurga Muralidhar

Tung-Ming Hsieh

Anant Puri

Mahesh Madurai Kumar

Hoseinali Borhan

Apurva Arvind Chunodkar

Mahesh Madurai-Kumar

Feng Liu

Akash S Desai

Bibin N Pattel

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed that include: determining, by a controller, an estimated propulsion power for a vehicle at a future location of a route at a future time based on at least one of internal information regarding the vehicle, external static information regarding the route of the vehicle, or external dynamic information regarding one or more upcoming potential conditions along the route of the vehicle; determining, by the controller, a current state of charge of a battery; determining, by the controller, a desired state of charge of the battery at the future location without substantially changing an output power of an engine of the vehicle; and facilitating, by the controller, charging of the battery of the vehicle to achieve the desired state of charge of the battery at the future location without substantially changing the output power of the engine of the vehicle.

Systems and methods of battery management and control for a vehicle

Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein relate to a system including a vehicle accessory and a controller coupled to the vehicle accessory. The controller is configured to receive internal vehicle information including information about the vehicle accessory; receive external static information based on a position of the vehicle; receive external dynamic information based on the position and a time of travel of the vehicle at the position; and control operation of the vehicle accessory based on the internal vehicle information, the external static information, and the external dynamic information.

Systems and methods of energy management and control of vehicle accessories

Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein include managing, by a controller, a state of charge of a battery of a hybrid vehicle at a particular location at a particular time based on a determined potential propulsion power for the vehicle; responsive to determining a downhill grade at the particular location, determining, by the controller, an amount of braking energy available during traversal of the downhill grade; and discharging, by the controller, the battery to direct energy to at least one of a generator or an electrified accessory of the hybrid vehicle before the downhill grade to enable reception of at least a portion of the determined amount of braking energy available.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed provide for receiving internal information, external static information, and external dynamic information of a hybrid vehicle, and selectively enable or disable a stop/start function for the engine of the hybrid vehicle based on the internal hybrid vehicle information, external static information, and external dynamic information. The stop/start function controls selective activation and deactivation of the engine during operation of the hybrid vehicle.

Systems and methods of engine stop/start control of an electrified powertrain

Exemplary embodiments include unique apparatuses, methods and systems providing coordinated control of vehicle cohorts. Certain embodiments perform an optimization of a vehicle cohort model and a plurality of vehicle models to determine vehicle cohort operating parameters and individual vehicle operating parameters in order to minimize total vehicle cohort power or a total vehicle cohort energy over a route of travel. Such embodiments further determine vehicle operating commands executable by vehicles of the cohort to implement the vehicle cohort operating parameters and individual vehicle operating parameters. Such vehicle operating commands may be transmitted to, received by and, executed by vehicles of the vehicle cohort.

Coordinated control of vehicle cohorts

A vehicle comprises an aftertreatment system configured to reduce constituents of an exhaust gas. The vehicle also includes a controller configured to determine a predicted load on the vehicle during a route, and adjust at least one of a temperature of the aftertreatment system or an amount of a reductant inserted into the aftertreatment system based on the predicted load.

Systems and methods for managing aftertreatment systems

Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein include a system including a heating, venting, and air conditioning (HVAC) system and a controller coupled to the HVAC system. The controller is configured to receive internal vehicle information, external static information, and external dynamic information, and to control operation of the HVAC system based on the internal vehicle information, external static information, and external dynamic information.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed provide for receiving internal hybrid vehicle information, external static information, and external dynamic information; determining a propulsion power for the hybrid vehicle at a particular location at a particular time based on at least one of the internal hybrid vehicle information, the external static information, and the external dynamic information, and wherein in response to the determined potential propulsion power, predicting a shift event at the particular location at the particular time; determining a current state of charge of a battery, wherein the battery is operatively coupled to an electric motor in the hybrid vehicle; and managing the state of charge of the battery at the particular location at the particular time based on the current state of charge and the determined propulsion power to eliminate the need for the potential shift event at the particular location at the particular time.

Systems and methods of energy management and control of an electrified powertrain

Methods, systems and apparatuses for inter-vehicle communication, fusion of sensor information, and information sharing resulting from inter-vehicle communication are disclosed along with control of one or more vehicles in response to information from one or more other vehicles.

Sensor fusion and information sharing using inter-vehicle communication

Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein provide for receiving internal hybrid vehicle information, external static information, and external dynamic information; determining a propulsion power for the hybrid vehicle at a particular location at a particular time based on at least one of the internal hybrid vehicle information, the external static information, and the external dynamic information; determining a current state of charge of a battery, wherein the battery is operatively coupled to an electric motor in the hybrid vehicle; and managing a state of charge of the battery at the particular location at the particular time based on the current state of charge and the determined propulsion power.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed herein provide for receiving internal vehicle information, external static information, and external dynamic information; controlling the operation of one or more electronic accessories of the vehicle based on the received information; and managing a power supply for the one or more electronic accessories based on the energy usage and the operation of the electronic accessories.

Systems and apparatuses include a controller structured to: receive information indicative of an operating condition of a vehicle subsystem, receive information indicative of an external static condition, and receive information indicative of an external dynamic condition. The system is further configured to predict a fuel cut event based on at least one of the operating condition of the vehicle subsystem, the external static condition, and the external dynamic condition. Responsive to predicting a fuel cut event, the controller is structured to modulate at least one of a torque or a speed of the engine based on the operating condition of the vehicle subsystem and at least one of the information indicative of the external static condition and the external dynamic condition.

System and method for predictive engine and aftertreatment system control

A hybrid controller unit includes a detection module, a gear-hold module, a gear-skip module, and an optimizing module. The detection module is structured to detect a deceleration event. The gear-hold module is structured to determine whether a certain gear of a transmission should be maintained for a certain period of time in order to optimize power regeneration during the deceleration event. The gear-hold module is also structured to generate a gear-hold request. The gear-skip module is structured to determine whether the transmission should skip a gear in order to optimize power regeneration during the deceleration event. The gear-skip module is also structured to generate a gear-skip request. The optimizing module is structured to receive the gear-hold request and the gear-skip request and generate a transmission command to be sent to a transmission control unit for actuation.

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Pinak Jayant Tulpule