Energy-Critical Control of Vehicles

In collaboration with Allison Transmission, Inc., this project developed an energy-critical control framework for vehicle platoons. Analogous to safety-critical control, we introduced the concept of energy-critical control using Control Barrier Functions to enforce upper bounds on energy consumption while adapting to environmental conditions such as road grade and traffic density.

Key contributions:

Introduced the concept of energy-critical control using CBFs
Designed a power-limiting strategy with adaptive adjustment from environment
Simulation-based validation (estimated TRL 2–3)

Related publications: (Alan et al., 2023)

References

2023

IEEE L-CSS

Energy-Critical Control Using Control Barrier Functions

Anil Alan, Andrej Ivanco, and Gábor Orosz

IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023

DOI Bib

@article{alan2023energy,
  title = {Energy-Critical Control Using Control Barrier Functions},
  author = {Alan, Anil and Ivanco, Andrej and Orosz, G{\'a}bor},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
  volume = {7},
  pages = {3938--3943},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3341753}
}