Ford Motor Company

About: Ford Motor Company is a company organization based out in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Internal combustion engine & Signal. The organization has 36123 authors who have published 51450 publications receiving 855200 citations. The organization is also known as: Ford Motor & Ford Motor Corporation.

A stochastic model predictive control approach for series hybrid electric vehicle power management

Abstract: This paper illustrates the use of stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) for power management in vehicles equipped with advanced hybrid powertrains Hybrid vehicles use two or more distinct power sources for propulsion, and their complex powertrain architecture requires the coordination of all the subsystems to achieve target performances in terms of fuel consumption, driveability, component life-time, exhaust emissions Many control strategies have been presented and successfully applied, mainly based on heuristics or rules and tuned on certain reference drive cycles To take into account that cycles are not exactly known a priori in driving routine, this paper proposes a stochastic approach for the power management problem We focus on a series hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), which combines an internal combustion engine and an electric motor The power demand from the driver is modeled as a Markov chain estimated on several driving cycles and used to generate scenarios in the SMPC law Simulation results over a standard driving cycle are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed stochastic approach and compared with other deterministic approaches

Nightly Treatment of Primary Insomnia With Eszopiclone for Six Months: Effect on Sleep, Quality of Life, and Work Limitations

Abstract: Study Objectives: To evaluate 6 months' eszopiclone treatment upon patient-reported sleep, fatigue and sleepiness, insomnia severity, quality of life, and work limitations.

Selection of the flux reference for induction machine drives in the field weakening region

Abstract: In a conventional rotor flux oriented induction motor drive, the flux reference is usually made proportional to the inverse of the rotor speed for field weakening operation. The authors indicate, however, that such a variation cannot maintain optimal (maximum) torque capability maintain optimal (maximum) torque capability of the machine over the entire speed range. It is further shown that nearly optimal torque capability can be achieved in a stator flux oriented system when the stator flux reference is varied as the inverse of the rotor speed. >