Computational reduction of optimal hybrid vehicle energy management

Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle is a way of solving hybrid powertrain optimal energy management. This paper presents an improvement of a classical implementation. The core of this improvement consists in relaxing the tolerance on some intermediate steps of the algorithm in order to reduce the number of iterations and thereby reducing the...

Fast solvers for concentrated elastic contact problems

Rail transportation plays an important role in our everyday life, and there is fast development and modernization in the railway industry to meet the growing demand for swifter, safer and more comfortable trains. At the same time, the security of train operation and the maintenance of rails have to be considered. A lot of research on these...

An Efficient Algorithm for Fault Location on Mixed Line-Cable Transmission Corridors

This paper presents a fault location algorithm that can be used to accurately locate the fault at any place along mixed line-cable transmission corridors. The algorithm is an impedance based line/cable parameter dependent algorithm. The fault location algorithm is derived using distributed line model, modal transformation theory and Discrete...

Data Driven Fault Tolerant Control: A Subspace Approach

The main stream research on fault detection and fault tolerant control has been focused on model based methods. As far as a model is concerned, changes therein due to faults have to be extracted from measured data. Generally speaking, existing approaches process measured inputs and outputs either by a filter designed based on a known model (e.g....

Development of numerical algorithms for end-user applications in aerospace

In this paper, a cross-section of numerical algorithm development at NLR for end-user applications in aerospace is presented. Aerospace is characterized by high safety requirements and standards, complex development programs and operational processes, and challenging multi-physics phenomena. An example is the certification or qualification of...