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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Anthony Mark Phillips, Northville, MI (US);
Georgia-Evangelia Katsargyri, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ming Lang Kuang, Canton, MI (US);
Ilya Vladimir Kolmanovsky, Novi, MI (US);
John Ottavio Michelini, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Munther Abdullah Dahleh, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael David Rinehart, San Jose, CA (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
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.