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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2021
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Yixin Yao, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Hassan Farhat, Dearborn, MI (US);
Rajit Johri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ravi Gopal, Novi, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods and system for operating a vehicle cooling system are described. In one example, the vehicle cooling system cools a heat generating device via a fan and pump. A speed of the fan is commanded by a feedback controller with possible neural network predictive control to track a variable temperature reference that is based on thermal load estimation. A disturbance observer may be applied to observe thermal load and an observer-based observer may be used to generate the temperature reference so that the power consumption of a fan is minimized.