Emerging Trends in Control-Oriented Modeling of Hybrid Electric Vehicles in a Connected Framework

Dear Colleagues,

In a world with serious and pressing issues about global warming and pollution, increasing demand for personal mobility, and considering actual limitations to the massive diffusion of electrical vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) represent one of the most feasible options for a transition toward a greener and more sustainable mobility. The presence of both thermal and electric machines, combined according to different and complex topologies of multiple energy sources and storage, makes the design and the control of these vehicles a very challenging task for researchers. The possibility to access the electrical grid both for recharging and for providing power, the increasing interaction with information coming from infrastructure and other vehicles, the growing diffusion of ADAS systems and of other emerging technologies add degrees of freedom and complexity to the system. Further challenges for vehicle design and control come from the emerging use of photovoltaic panels on the car and from the possibility to hybridize conventional cars, thus reducing the carbon footprint of the existing fleet. The scope of this Special Issue is therefore to document the state of the art of control-oriented modeling and design of hybrid electric vehicles, with special focus on the new emerging trends connected to new paradigms of mobility.

Specific Topics

Submissions can focus on the conceptual and applied research in topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Hybrid and alternative drive vehicles;
• Energy management and control of hybrid vehicles;
• Batteries and BMU for hybrid;
• Control oriented modeling for HEV;
• Studies on HEV topologies;
• Drivability issues in HEVs;
• Hardware-in-the-Loop applications to HEVs;
• Fuel-cell hybrid vehicles;
• Solar hybrid vehicles;
• Hybridization of conventional cars.

Prof. Gianfranco Rizzo
Guest Editor

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