Author: Adithya JayakumarPublisher:
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Category : Calibration
Languages : en
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Book Description
The particular simulator and application addressed here is the optimization of fuel economy in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). Accurately estimating the energy consumption of hybrid electric vehicles is complicated by the fact that these vehicles have multiple power sources and complex control strategies. As a starting point of this research, to ensure that available vehicle simulators can be validated, a thorough literature review of energy consumption in HEVs was done both on a component and an overall level. This then allowed model validation to be performed. New methods of model validation for the case of vehicle simulators were also developed and are discussed in this dissertation. Also in this document, the optimization framework developed to robustly minimize fuel economy in a hybrid electric vehicle simulator is discussed. Since the vehicle simulator is a hybrid system using LUTs, the methodology developed here will be applicable in many simulation optimization environments.