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Electric vehicles
Electric vehicles suffer
from a number of problems. Range, long charging times,
and a number of
other
issues are dealt with in the following papers.
- C. King, W.
Griggs, F. Wirth, K. Quinn, R. Shorten, Alleviating a form of electric
vehicle range anxiety through on-demand vehicle access, to appear in
International Journal of Control.
- M. Liu, W. Griggs, C.
King, F. Wirth, P. Borrel, R. Shorten, Applying a QoS-based fleet
dimension method to reduce fleet emissions, 2nd International
Conference on
Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 732-733, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2013.
- C. King, W.
Griggs, F. Wirth, R. Shorten, Using
a car sharing model to alleviate
electric vehicle range anxiety,
The
16th Yale Workshop on
Adaptive and Learning Systems, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,
USA, June 2013. [discussed in "WirtschaftsWoche"]
- S. Stüdli,
E.
Crisostomi, R. Middleton, R. Shorten, A flexible distributed framework
for realising electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle charging policies,
International Journal of Control, vol. 85, no. 8, pp. 1130-1145, 2012.
- A. Schlote,
E.
Crisostomi,
S. Kirkland, R. Shorten, Traffic
modelling framework for
electric vehicles, International Journal of Control, vol. 85, no. 7,
pp. 880-897, 2012.
- S. Stüdli, E.
Crisostomi, R. Middleton, R. Shorten,
AIMD-like algorithms for charging
electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles,
IEEE International Electric
Vehicle Conference, Greenville, South Carolina, USA, 2012.
- S. Stüdli, W.
Griggs,
E. Crisostomi, R. Shorten, On optimality
criteria for V2G charging
strategies, 1st International Conference on
Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 345-346, Beijing, China, 2012.
Vehicle-grid integration
The following papers
investigate ideas concerning the integration of vehicles
into the grid.
- F. Häusler,
E. Crisostomi, I. Radusch, R. Shorten,
Smart
Procurement Of Naturally Generated Energy (SPONGE) for PHEVs.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02931v1
- S. Stüdli, E.
Crisostomi,
R. Middleton, J. Braslavsky,
R. Shorten, Distributed load management using additive increase
multiplicative decrease based techniques, in S. Rajakaruna, F.
Shahnia, A. Ghosh (Eds.), Power Systems: Plug In Electric
Vehicles in Smart Grids (Energy Management), pp. 173-202,
2015,
Springer.
- M. Liu, E. Crisostomi,
Y. Gu, R. Shorten, Optimal distributed consensus algorithm for
fair V2G power dispatch in a microgrid, IEEE International Electric
Vehicle Conference, Florence, Italy, 2014.
- E. Crisostomi, M. Liu,
M. Raugi, R. Shorten, Plug-and-play
distributed algorithms for optimized power generation in a microgrid,
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 2145-2154, 2014.
- S. Stüdli, E.
Crisostomi, R. Middleton, R. Shorten, Optimal real-time distributed V2G
and G2V management of electric vehicles, International
Journal
of Control, vol. 87, no. 6, pp. 1153-1162, 2014.
- S. Stüdli, W.
Griggs,
E. Crisostomi, R. Shorten, On optimality criteria for reverse
charging of electric vehicles, IEEE Transactions on
Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 451-456, 2014.
Hybrid vehicles and
pollution control
Hybrid
vehicles offer great flexibility in the way that they interact with our
cities.
They can be polluting
where there are no people or sensitive spots in
the city (schools or hospitals), and non-polluting elsewhere. This
offers new tools as to how
these vehicles can interact with our cities.
Pollution control ideas in this direction are documented in the
following
publications.
- F. Häusler,
M. Faizrahnemoon, A. Schlote, E. Crisostomi, I.
Radusch, R. Shorten, A framework for
real-time emissions trading in large scale vehicle fleets, to appear in
IET Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- A. Schlote, F.
Häusler, T. Hecker, A. Bergmann, E. Crisostomi, I.
Radusch, R. Shorten, Cooperative
regulation and trading of emissions using plug-in hybrid vehicles,
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 14, no.
4, pp. 1572-1585, 2013.
- F. Häusler,
M. Faizrahnemoon, E. Crisostomi, A. Schlote, I.
Radusch, R. Shorten, A framework for
optimal real-time emissions trading in large-scale vehicle fleets, 9th
ITS
European Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 2013. [Best Paper Award]
- A. Schlote, F.
Häusler, T. Hecker, A. Bergmann, E. Crisostomi, I.
Radusch, R. Shorten, Cooperative
regulation of emissions using
plug-in hybrid vehicles,
1st International Conference on
Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 201-202, Beijing, China, 2012. [Best Digest
Paper -
Runner-Up]
- F. Knorn, M. Corless,
R. Shorten, A
result on implicit consensus with application to emissions control,
50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control
Conference 2011,
pp. 1299-1304, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011.
- TwinLin Project
Parking and charging
Parking is a new interest
for us. Some early work can be found in the following papers.
- R. Cogill, O. Gallay,
W. Griggs, C. Lee, Z. Nabi, R.
Ordonez, M. Rufli, R. Shorten, T. Tchrakian, R. Verago, F. Wirth, S.
Zhuk, Parked cars as a service delivery platform, 3rd International
Conference on
Connected Vehicles and Expo, Vienna, Austria, 2014.
- A. Schlote, C. King,
E. Crisostomi, R. Shorten, Delay-tolerant stochastic algorithms
for parking space assignment, IEEE Transactions
on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1922-1935,
2014.
- F.
Häusler, E. Crisostomi, A. Schlote, I. Radusch, R. Shorten,
Stochastic park-and-charge balancing for fully electric and
plug-in hybrid vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent
Transportation Systems, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 895-901, 2014.
- A. Schlote, B. Chen,
M. Sinn, R. Shorten, The effect of feedback in the assignment problem
in shared bicycle systems, 2nd International
Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 960-961, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA,
2013.
- A. Schlote, C. King,
E. Crisostomi, R. Shorten, Stochastic algorithms
for parking space assignment, 9th
ITS
European Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 2013.
- F.
Häusler, E. Crisostomi, A. Schlote, I. Radusch,
R. Shorten, Stochastically balanced parking and charging for fully
electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, 1st International Conference on
Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 341-342, Beijing, China, 2012.
Routing
Routing of cars through
our cities is an area open for innovative approaches. Some new ideas in
this
domain can be found in the following papers.
- F.
Häusler, R.H.
Ordóñez-Hurtado, W.M. Griggs, I. Radusch, R.N.
Shorten,
Closed-loop flow regulation with balanced routing, 3rd
International Conference on
Connected Vehicles and Expo, Vienna, Austria, 2014.
- A. Schlote, E.
Crisostomi, R. Shorten,
Balanced
routing for EVs, 1st International Conference on
Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 343-344, Beijing, China, 2012.
- E. Crisostomi, S.
Kirkland, R. Shorten, Robust and risk-averse
routing algorithms in road
networks, 18th World Congress of the International
Federation of Automatic
Control (IFAC), pp. 9512-9517, Milano, Italy, 2011.
Traffic modelling
We have worked on a
number of traffic models that allow control design and routing for
several
vehicle classes. Some early work can be found in the following papers.
- M. Faizrahnemoon, A.
Schlote, E. Crisostomi, R. Shorten, A Google-like model for public
transport, 2nd International
Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 612-613, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA,
2013.
- E. Crisostomi, S.
Kirkland, R. Shorten, A Google-like model of road network dynamics and
its application to regulation and control, International Journal of
Control, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 633-651, 2011.
- E. Crisostomi, S.
Kirkland, A. Schlote, R. Shorten, Markov Chain Based
Emissions Models:
A Precursor
for Green Control, in Green IT: Technologies and Applications,
Springer, pp. 381-400, 2011.
- A. Schlote,
E. Crisostomi, S. Kirkland, R. Shorten, A Google-like model of road
network dynamics, The
15th Yale Workshop on
Adaptive and Learning Systems, Yale University, New Haven, 2011.
Hardware-in-the-loop
traffic simulation
Evaluating the success of
new large-scale intelligent transportation systems methodologies can
prove difficult, given that researchers and engineers usually do not
have access to very large test
fleets of real vehicles equipped with the appropriate devices and
technologies. We
are
building a platform that embeds real vehicles into large-scale traffic
scenarios emulated by SUMO. Our platform provides
the advantage of being able to demonstrate proof-of-concept on a real
vehicle while it
interacts with many simulated vehicles.
- W.M. Griggs, R.H.
Ordóñez-Hurtado, E. Crisostomi,
F. Häusler, K.
Massow, R.N.
Shorten, A large-scale SUMO-based emulation platform, submitted to IEEE
Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- W.M. Griggs, R.N.
Shorten, Embedding real vehicles in SUMO for large-scale ITS scenario
emulation, 2nd International
Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 962-963, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA,
2013. [Best
Digest Paper Award]
Speed Advisory Systems
- Y. Gu, M. Liu, E.
Crisostomi, R. Shorten, Optimised
consensus for highway speed limits via intelligent speed advisory
systems, 3rd
International Conference on
Connected Vehicles and Expo, Vienna, Austria, 2014.
- R.H.
Ordóñez-Hurtado, W.M. Griggs, K. Massow, R.N.
Shorten, Evaluation of a new intelligent speed advisory system using
hardware-in-the-loop simulation, 2nd
International
Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, pp. 945-946, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA,
2013.
- R.H.
Ordóñez-Hurtado, W.M. Griggs, K. Massow, R.N.
Shorten, Intelligent speed advising based on cooperative traffic
scenario determination, in H. Waschl, I. Kolmanovsky, M.
Steinbuch, L. del Re (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Control and Information
Sciences: Optimization and Optimal Control in Automotive
Systems,
vol. 455, pp. 77-92, 2014, Springer.
Cooperative Positioning
Integrated chassis
control and vehicle emulator
We worked on design of
vehicle emulators in the context of the CEMACS project. This was in
collaboration with Mercedes-Benz.
- C. Villegas, M.
Corless, W. Griggs, R. Shorten, A passivity based decentralized
control design methodology with application to vehicle dynamics
control, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol.
134, no. 1, 2012.
- C. Villegas, Y.-L.
Chow, M. Corless, R. Shorten, W. Griggs, A decentralized control
technique for vehicle chassis control, 50th IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control, and European Control Conference 2011, pp. 2535-2540,
Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011.
Rollover prevention
For a sample of our work
on rollover prevention, see the following papers.
- J. Chiu, S. Solmaz, M.
Corless, R. Shorten, A methodology for the design of robust rollover
prevention controllers for automotive vehicles using differential
braking, International Journal of Vehicle Automomous Systems, 2010.
- Solmaz, S., Akar M.,
Shorten R., Realtime Multiple-Model Estimation of Center of Gravity
Position in Automotive Vehicles", Vehicle systems dynamics, 46(9),
pages 763-788, 2008.
- Solmaz, S., Shorten,
R., Wulff, K. and OCairbre,
F., design methodology for the design of
switched discrete time systems with application to Automotive Control,
Automatica, 44(9), pages 2358-2363, 2008.
- Solmaz S., Corless M.,
Shorten R., "A methodology for the design of robust rollover prevention
controllers for automotive vehicles with active steering",
International Journal of Control, 80(11), pp. 1763-1779, 2007
- Solmaz S., and Shorten
R., "Method for Determining the Tire Conditions of a Vehicle", European
Patent Application No. 09010853.1, August 2009
- Solmaz S., Akar M.,
Shorten R., "Method for Determining the Center of Gravity for an
Automotive Vehicle", Irish Patent Ref: (S2006/0162), March 2006. PCT
International publication number: WO 2007/098891 A1 and
PCT/EP2007/001584, September 2007.
Smart gearbox design
Our earliest work was a
smart gearbox design.
- (with K. Hunt as
co-inventor), Verfahren zur fahrweisen und/oder fahrzustandsabhangingen
Schaltstufeneinstellung für ein
Kraftfahrzeug-Automatgetriebe (in German). Patent
number 19501315
(Munchen), 1995.
Suspension design
We have also done some
work on suspension design for both conventional and electric vehicles.
- M. Readman, M.
Corless, C. Villegas, R. Shorten, Adaptive
Williams filters for active vehicle suspensions,
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement
and Control, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 660-676, 2010.
People
Robert Shorten; Douglas
Leith; Arieh Schlote; Mahsa Faizrahnemoon;
Rodrigo Ordóñez-Hurtado; Wynita
Griggs; Mingming Liu; Yingqi Gu; Martin
Corless.
Former: Selim Solmaz,
Mehmet Akar, Carlos Villegas, Felix Goldberg, Shravan
Sajja.
Partners
NEC Research; Fraunhofer
Fokus; IBM; Yale University; Purdue; Daimler.
Positions
- Post-doctoral
researcher in the area of transportation/pollution modelling and
control (with specific regard to new vehicle types and vehicle mixes);
- Post-doctoral
researcher in the area of control and optimization of massively
large-scale systems with constraints (incorporating best effort
notions);
- Post-doctoral
researcher in the area of cooperative mobility systems and applications
of v2x technologies (including co-modal mobility).
- Ph.D. position in the
area of cooperative control and optimization with application to
transportation networks.
- Ph.D. position in
feedback based stochastic routing with application to transportation
systems.
- Ph.D. position in
cooperative ECO adaptive cruise control.
- Ph.D. position in
cooperative algorithms for PHEV charging and grid integration.
- Ph.D. position in
cooperative sensing with specific application to cooperative GPS
applications.
A background and
knowledge of one or more of the following areas is desirable: Control
and Optimization; Pollution modelling and sensing; v2X; LDM
technologies; Plug-in FEV and PHEV; Routing algorithms; GPS; Automotive
systems; Economics. Strong industry participation in the project is
anticipated.
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