Title :
Racing with the Sun: the optimal use of the solar power automobile
Author :
Daniel, M.W. ; Kumar, P.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. & Ind. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
In the summer of 1997, the University of Illinois competed in Sunrayce ´97, a ten-day race of solar powered vehicles across the midwestern United States. This paper provides the race strategy results obtained by optimal deterministic and stochastic control techniques
Keywords :
acceleration control; electric vehicles; maximum principle; project engineering; solar power; stochastic systems; Pontryagin maximum principle; University of Illinois; acceleration control; drive chain; dynamics; optimal deterministic control; solar powered automobile; stochastic control; Acceleration; Aerodynamics; Automobiles; Batteries; Contracts; Leg; Roads; Solar energy; Solar powered vehicles; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 1997., Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4187-2
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1997.650691
