-The paper deals with the study related to integration of Flywheel Energy storage system (FESS) to an already available model of parallel hybrid vehicle with pretransmission torque coupling, i.e., replacing the conventional chemical battery with an equivalent mechanical battery. Advantages like high reliability, long cycle life, high energy storage capacity and deep discharge of an FESS can pot...

Automobile emissions such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter are coming under progressively strict regulations worldwide. Meeting the increasingly severe requirements will require wider use of electric vehicles, including hybrid electric cars, and of high-efficiency electrified powertrains for better fuel economy. For this, implementation of still more compact, higher outp...

In this paper, a hybrid genetic algorithm is proposed to solve a Capacitated Location-Routing Problem. The objective is to minimize the total cost of the distribution in a network composed of depots and customers, both depots and vehicles have limited capacities, each depot has a homogenous vehicle fleet and customers’ demands are known and must be satisfied. Solving this problem involves makin...

The operation of an autonomous vehicle in an unknown, dynamic environment is a very complex problem, especially when the vehicle is required to use its full maneuvering capabilities, and to react in real time to changes in they operational environment. A possible approach to reduce the computational complexity of the motion planning problem for a nonlinear, high dimensional system, is based on ...

In this research, we study a control method of a multivehicle system while considering the limitation of communication range for each vehicles. When we control networked vehicles with limitation of communication range, it is important to control the communication network structure of a multi-vehicle system in order to keep the network’s connectivity. From this, we especially aim to control the ...

Designing diagnosis systems for hybrid vehicles include new features compared to conventional vehicles, e.g. mode switches in the system. The influence of this on the performance of the diagnosis system is investigated by design and implementation of diagnosis systems on vehicle level. The diagnosis systems are based on two sensor configurations, one consisting of many sensors and one of few se...