Vehicle Propulsion Systems Introduction to Modeling and Optimization /

• Main Authors: Guzzella, Lino (Author), Sciarretta, Antonio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Transportation.; Electric power production.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Mechanical engineering.; Automotive engineering.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Mechanical Engineering.; Automotive Engineering.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Energy Technology.
• Physical Description: XII, 338 p. 202 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540746928

Automobiles are responsible for a substantial part of the world's consumption of primary energy, mostly fossil liquid hydrocarbons. The reduction of the fuel consumption of these vehicles has become a top priority. Many ideas to reach that objective have been presented. In most cases these systems are more complex than the traditional approaches. For such complex systems a heuristic design approach fails. The only way to deal with this situation is to employ model-based methods. This text provides an introduction to the mathematical modeling and subsequent optimization of vehicle propulsion systems and their supervisory control algorithms.