MMAE Seminar - Dominik Karbowski - Eco-driving with Connectivity and Automation
Armour College of Engineering's Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department will welcome Mr. Dominik Karbowski, Technical Manager of Intelligent Eco-Mobility at Argonne National Laboratory, on Wednesday, November 14th, to present his lecture, Eco-driving with Connectivity and Automation.
Abstract
Sensors, as well as connectivity between a vehicle and other vehicles (V2V) or the infrastructure (V2I), provide information to the vehicle about its environment and future driving conditions. A vehicle with automated driving then uses that information to perform its mission and accomplish various objectives: improved safety, increased mobility, greater comfort, better use of travel time, increased road capacity (e.g., platooning), and others. As a result, the way vehicles move is changing, which impacts their energy efficiency.
Automation and connectivity also can be used for eco-driving—in which energy efficiency is another objective of the vehicle dynamics control—without compromising drivability and travel time. In parallel, vehicles feature an ever-broader range of advanced powertrain technologies, from hybridization to transmissions with a high number of gears, designed to improve the overall vehicle efficiency. It is uncertain how combining powertrain and connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies will impact energy efficiency improvements: will one cancel the benefit of the other, or will they add up? Will there be synergies from adopting a holistic approach that looks at both vehicle dynamics and powertrain operations? Will there be powertrain designs that achieve greater energy efficiency at lower cost only when coupled with eco-driving algorithms? What will the impacts be in the real world, not just in the best-case scenarios?
In this seminar, you will have a glance at how researchers address these challenges at Argonne. We will give an overview of eco-driving techniques, discuss simulation methods to develop and evaluate eco-driving algorithms, and how we use optimal control and model-predictive control methods to achieve energy-efficient CAVs.
Biography
Dominik Karbowski is Technical Manager of Intelligent Eco-Mobility at Argonne National Laboratory, leading Argonne’s research on energy-efficient connected and automated vehicles and intelligent transportation systems. Mr. Karbowski and his team develop algorithms that use the information vehicles receive in order to consume onboard energy as efficiently as possible, thanks to advanced controls, optimization and machine-learning. He has extensive experience in automotive systems modelling and simulation, control theory, energy management, electrified powertrain design and optimization, as well as driver behavior modeling. Mr. Karbowski is a major developer of control and component models for Autonomie, Argonne’s vehicle simulation tool. In addition to work on road vehicles, he also develops models to enable research on energy-efficient aircrafts. Mr. Karbowski holds a Master of Science in Engineering from Mines ParisTech, France.