Hybrid electric vehicle and method of path dependent receding horizon control

US8612077B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US
• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Anthony Mark Phillips · Northville, US
• Georgia-Evangelia Katsargyri · Cambridge, US
• Ming Lang Kuang · Canton, US
• Ilya Kolmanovsky · Ypsilanti, US
• John Ottavio Michelini · Sterling Heights, US
• Munther Dahleh · Cambridge, US
• Michael Rinehart · Pleasanton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 6, 2011
• Grant date: Dec 17, 2013
• Expiry date: Nov 30, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S903/903
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A path-dependent control of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) includes segmenting an original route into segments. A virtual route based on the remaining portion of the original route is generated once the HEV reaches a current segment of the original route. The virtual route includes a first segment corresponding to the current segment of the original route and a last segment representing at least two other segments of the remaining portion of the original route. Battery SoC set-points for the segments of the virtual route are generated. The vehicle is controlled according to the battery SoC set-point for the first segment of the virtual route as the vehicle travels along the current segment of the original route.