Introduction to Hybrid Vehicle System Modeling and Control

Preface

During the last decade, hybrid electric vehicles have come on the market and new techniques have been dramatically advanced and widely used. In the evolution of the design of hybrid vehicle systems, there exist several paramount challenges. These are driven by the stricter requirements for fuel economy and emissions and by progress in the technical development of power electronics, batteries, and other major components.

Hybrid electric vehicles, combining an internal combustion engine with one or more motors for propulsion, operate in the changing environments of different fuels, load levels, and weather conditions. Hybrid electric vehicle system engineers are now being challenged to expand their horizons and extend their concepts and methods not only so they can be applicable to incompletely modeled systems but also to the systems whose models are initially poorly defined but can be improved online during operation.

Modeling and control have played key roles in technological development, from overall system performance analysis to the calculation of manufacturing and servicing cost of new design. To articulate these challenges and encouraged by current hybrid vehicle system advancement, the author thought it necessary to publish a book on the hybrid electric vehicle system modeling and control.

The material assembled in this book is an outgrowth of my over ten years of work on hybrid vehicle research, development, and production at National Research Council Canada, Azure ...