Events Optec Agenda Detail
“Real-time optimization in automotive control applications”
The need for more fuel efficient vehicles is a key driver for innovations in automotive engineering. This goal gives rise to sophisticated combustion engine concepts like Controlled Auto Ignition (CAI) and driveline architectures like Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) which in turn, due to their inherent complexity, require advanced control strategies. This favors the introduction of optimization-based control schemes like Model Predictive Control to these fast applications, which is addressed by this talk.
Besides the control of driveline components, the overall drivetrain energy management gains importance in order to maximize the vehicle’s efficiency and lower th fuel consumption. This naturally leads to an optimization problem. The talk will exemplify this topic by the energy management of hybrid electric vehicles.
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Two OPTEC professors have been awarded three "Gouden Krijtjes", the yearly teaching awards given by the organization of engineering students (vtk). Prof. Lombaert was awarded the prize for the best course in civil engineering, and Prof. Diehl the prizes for the best professor and the best course in mathematical engineering (where he teaches numerical optimization). They received these awards at the yearly "proffentap" where experienced students taught them how to draft beer professionally.
