Single and dual dry clutches are widely used in automotive transmissions because of their
reliability and efficiency paired with low fuel consumption and reduction of pollutant …

This chapter describes the application of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle and Dynamic
Programming for vehicle drivingwith minimum fuel consumption. The focus is on minimum …

This paper considers the optimal reference-tracking control of an electropneumatic clutch
actuator for heavy duty trucks for which there exists an experimentally validated model. To …

This paper explores the association between the driver's starting intentions and control of
dry clutch engagement during the vehicle launch in order to develop an intelligent …

The engagement control of an automatic mechanical transmission (AMT) clutch during the
hill start of a heavy-duty vehicle has a significant impact on the comfort, safety and service …

This work highlights the gains of a fast nonlinear model-based predictive control (NMPC)
scheme applied to a 10 kW proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). The freshness of …

Clutch engagement control is critical during launching process in a vehicle equipped with an
automated manual transmission (AMT), which is a problem including muti-objective …

Engagement control of an automatic mechanical transmission clutch during vehicle start-up
has important influences on the safety, comfort, service life, energy consumption, and …

Automotive control applications are very challenging due to the presence of constraints,
nonlinearities and the restricted amount of computation time and embedded facilities …

A new road vehicle powertrain simulator is presented and applied to vehicle dynamics. The
electric motor, the fuel cell, the energy storage system (ESS), the braking rules, and the …