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Vehicles, Volume 4, Issue 1

March 2022 - 18 articles

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Cover Story: Increasing the efficiency of vehicle drive systems is one of the highest goals in the automotive industry. By reducing energy consumption, further benefits such as an increase in electric range or reduced vehicle mass can be realized. Since drive systems are occasionally oversized in terms of performance for the actual requirements, efficiency can be increased by adjusting the performance. This increase in efficiency can be achieved by reducing the performance of a drive system to the requirements that customers mostly need in daily operation. Furthermore, a second drive system is required in order to enable high demands, which occur rather rarely. View this paper

Articles (18)

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  • Open Access
3,177 Views
17 Pages

Estimation of Parallel Hybrid Scooter’s Energy Consumption through Real Urban Drive Cycle Using IMU

  • Supriya Kalyankar-Narwade,
  • Ramesh Kumar Chidambaram and
  • Sanjay Patil

15 March 2022

Drive cycle a is primary information useful for analyzing, designing, and optimizing automotive controllers for vehicle homologation. Conventional and electric vehicles are tested and certified based on the specified standard driving cycles as per ve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,170 Views
38 Pages

12 March 2022

Estimation of combustion phasing and power production is essential to ensuring proper combustion and load control. However, archetypal control-oriented physics-based combustion models can become computationally expensive if highly accurate predictive...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,109 Views
16 Pages

Autonomous Human-Vehicle Leader-Follower Control Using Deep-Learning-Driven Gesture Recognition

  • Joseph Schulte,
  • Mark Kocherovsky,
  • Nicholas Paul,
  • Mitchell Pleune and
  • Chan-Jin Chung

9 March 2022

Leader-follower autonomy (LFA) systems have so far only focused on vehicles following other vehicles. Though there have been several decades of research into this topic, there has not yet been any work on human-vehicle leader-follower systems in the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,566 Views
9 Pages

Wireless Power Transfer System in Dynamic Conditions: A Field-Circuit Analysis

  • Manuele Bertoluzzo,
  • Paolo Di Barba,
  • Michele Forzan,
  • Maria Evelina Mognaschi and
  • Elisabetta Sieni

9 March 2022

In the paper, a Finite Element (FE) Analysis for investigating the electric properties of a Wireless Power Transfer System (WPTS) devoted to charging the batteries of electric vehicles is performed. In particular, the dynamic-WPTS, which is challengi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,683 Views
15 Pages

Head Tracking in Automotive Environments for Driver Monitoring Using a Low Resolution Thermal Camera

  • Christoph Weiss,
  • Alexander Kirmas,
  • Sören Lemcke,
  • Stefan Böshagen,
  • Marian Walter,
  • Lutz Eckstein and
  • Steffen Leonhardt

8 March 2022

The steady enhancement of driver assistance systems and the automation of driving functions are in need of advanced driver monitoring functionalities. To evaluate the driver state, several parameters must be acquired. A basic parameter is the positio...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,007 Views
20 Pages

Potential Analysis for a New Vehicle Class in the Use Case of Ride-Pooling: How New Model Developments Could Satisfy Customers and Mobility Makers

  • Martin Dorynek,
  • Lisa-Theres Derle,
  • Martin Fleischer,
  • Alex Thanos,
  • Paul Weinmann,
  • Michael Schreiber,
  • Sebastian Schumann,
  • Tolga Tunc and
  • Klaus Bengler

5 March 2022

Due to changes in mobility and the emergence of new services, it is becoming necessary to establish new vehicle classes between conventional buses and privately owned vehicles. New mobility scenarios need concrete specifications to develop the most u...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,333 Views
17 Pages

1 March 2022

In order to further increase the efficiency of electrified vehicle drives, various predictive energy management strategies (driving strategies) have been developed. Therefore, a generic prediction approach is worked out in this paper, which enables a...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,626 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2022

Many trucks are used for a class of activities involving a sequence of basic load-haul-dump operations. The repetitiveness of this operation has been an enabler for autonomous vehicle technology in efforts to increase safety and efficiency. In this p...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,542 Views
22 Pages

16 February 2022

The aim of herein work is to develop an automatized algorithm for detecting, as objectively as possible, the flame front evolution of lean/ultra-lean mixtures ignited by low temperature plasma-based ignition systems. The low luminosity characterizing...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,206 Views
8 Pages

10 February 2022

Vehicle drive systems are often oversized for common customer operation in order to cover the high demands of rare driving events such as towing a trailer, high acceleration or steep inclines. This high torque and power requirement affects the effici...

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