摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To integrate an on-board navigation system for energy management of an electric vehicle(EV) and a hybrid electric vehicle(HEV) and improve the fuel efficiency while satisfying driver's power requirement with the function of a driving motor battery system being retained properly by means of a battery parameter control. SOLUTION: A vehicle system controller 46 integrates the information of the navigation system 56 with energy management while the vehicle is on the way to a known destination. The present vehicle location is continuously monitored, the expectation of a vehicle driver's requirement is determined, and accommodations are provided to the vehicle as to the present location, etc. The system is configured to include date and time, geographical features, attitude changes, speed limit, driving patterns of the vehicle driver and weather. The method of accommodations for the vehicle may be used with a discrete control, fuzzy logic or neural network. |