Control Challenges for Smart Vehicles
![]() |
Prof. Maarten Steinbuch,Eindhoven University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Control Systems Technology |
The expectation is that in the coming years ongoing advances in science and engineering will improve the link between computational and physical elements, dramatically increasing the adaptability, autonomy, efficiency, functionality, reliability, safety, and usability of cyber-physical systems. A cyber-physical system (CPS) is system where interaction between the system’s computational and physical elements is key. This in particular holds for the area of electrification of vehicles. Modern and, even more, future cars, will be intelligent systems on intelligent wheels, providing zero accident mobility with zero emissions locally. Smart cars and smart car systems pose huge challenges for control engineers. The talk will show some recent research results with connected cars with a new string stability proof, and test results on energy management of a hybrid truck.
The talk will end with a vision on the engineer in 2020.









