Mario Barnard* and Mohamed Zohdy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

*Corresponding Author: Mario Barnard, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA.

Received: December 04,2021; Published: January 31, 2022

Abstract

In this paper, a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle’s conventional cruise control system was modelled and improved using Model Predictive Control (MPC). Both a linear MPC and nonlinear MPC was modelled for comparison of the control of the cruise control’s system.

Keywords: Model Predictive Control (MPC), Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Automotive, Cruise Control, Conventional Cruise Control, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV)

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Citation

Citation: Mario Barnard and Mohamed Zohdy. “Model Predictive Control of a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle’s Cruise Control System". Acta Scientific Computer Sciences 4.2 (2022): 89-96.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 Mario Barnard and Mohamed Zohdy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.