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Resource aware pricing for electric vehicle charging

Electric vehicle charging facilities offer their capacity constrained electric charge and parking to users for a fee. As electric vehicle adoption grows, so too does the potential for excessive resource utilization. In this paper, we study how prices set b ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Haptics based collaborative steering control in automated driving environments

Tomohiro Nakade

A vehicle's steering is a particular system in that it is exposed to individual subjective reviews based on criteria that are hard to assess quantitatively. Haptic design of such systems is a prime concern that has been at the center of industrial developm ...

EPFL2023

Potential of electric mobility as service to the grid in renewable energy hubs

François Maréchal, Cédric Terrier, Luise Middelhauve

The electrification of private mobility is becoming a popular solution to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. However, uncontrollable charging of a large electric vehicle fleet challenges the distribution grid due to transmission bottlenecks, voltage limi ...

2022

Optimization of operational decisions for on-demand shared mobility systems

Martin Jean Marie Joseph Repoux

This thesis introduces new operational management policies for two types of on-demand shared mobility systems, the now well-studied one-way carsharing systems and a new innovative semi-autonomous last-mile transportation system. In addition, two associated ...

EPFL2021

Can regional railway become emission-free with recently announced vehicles? - A case study of Bavaria

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Florian Mueller

Significant shares of regional passenger railway still rely on pollutive diesel vehicles. Alstom, Bombardier, Siemens, and Stadler have reacted and recently announced Battery Electric and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (BEVs and FCEVs). In this paper, we anal ...

2020

The electric autonomous dial-a-ride problem

Claudia Bongiovanni

This thesis develops mathematical programming frameworks to operate electric autonomous vehicles in the context of ride-sharing services. The introduced problem is a novel variant of the Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP), denoted by the electric Autonomous Dial-a ...

EPFL2020

Reliable Frequency Regulation through Vehicle-to-Grid: Encoding Legislation with Robust Constraints

François Richard Vuille, Dirk Lauinger, Daniel Kuhn

Problem definition: Vehicle-to-grid increases the low utilization rate of privately owned electric vehicles by making their batteries available to electricity grids. We formulate a robust optimization problem that maximizes a vehicle owner’s expected profi ...

2024

On the use of reservation-based autonomous vehicles for demand management

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

Automated mobility on demand is foreseen as the future of urban passenger mobility. While mixed-traffic for autonomous and conventional vehicles could be considered, separation amplifies the benefits of automation. Combined with mobility as a service, sepa ...

2017

Cooperative Perception Algorithms for Networked Intelligent Vehicles

Milos Vasic

The degree of intelligence built-in in today's vehicles in constantly on the rise. The vehicles are being equipped with sensors, with the goal to estimate the state of the vehicle and the environment surrounding it. Intelligent algorithms that process the ...

EPFL2017

An integrated optimization-simulation framework for vehicle and personnel relocations of electric carsharing systems with reservations

Burak Boyaci, Nikolaos Geroliminis, Konstantinos Zografos

One-way electric vehicle carsharing systems are receiving increasing attention due to their mobility, environmental, and societal benefits. One of the major issues faced by the operators of these systems is the optimization of the relocation operations of ...

Elsevier2017

Aerial Human-Comfortable Collision-free Navigation in Dense Environments

Nicolas Dousse

With current overuse of the road transportation system and planned increase in traffic, inno- vative solutions that overcome environmental and financial cost of the current system should be assessed. A promising idea is the use of the third dimension for p ...

EPFL2017

Energy Integration On Multi-Periods For Vehicle Thermal Powertrains

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

Internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the organic Rankine cycl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Simulation of Cooperative Automated Driving by Bidirectional Coupling of Vehicle and Network Simulators

Alcherio Martinoli, Inaki Navarro Oiza, Guillaume Stefan Jornod, David Mansolino

The convergence of sensor-based vehicle automation and Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) will be a key to achieve the full automation of vehicles. In this paper we present a new method for the design and performance evaluation of Cooperative Automated Driv ...

2017

Pioneering Driverless Electric Vehicles in Europe: The City Automated Transport System (CATS)

Vincent Kaufmann, Derek Pierre Christie

The City Automated Transport System (CATS) was a collaborative FP7 European project that lasted from 2010 to 2014. Its objective was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of driverless electric vehicles in European cities. This contribution explain ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Environomic design of hybrid electric vehicles

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The improvement of the efficiency of vehicle energy systems promotes an active search to find innovative solutions during the design process. Engineers can use computer-aided processes to find automatically the best design solutions. This kind of approach ...

University of Ljubljana2016

Contribution to the Ultra-Fast Charging of Electric Vehicles : The Configurable Modular Multilevel Converter (CMMC)

Rosa Martel Danoary Tsirinomeny

It is generally agreed that one of the drawbacks of a conventional vehicle is the inability to always reach the best operating point of the engine and the inability to regenerate the kinetic energy. Meaning, even with the help of the gearbox or automatic t ...

EPFL2016

Distributed Graph-Based Control of Convoys of Heterogeneous Vehicles using Curvilinear Road Coordinates

Alcherio Martinoli, Florian Zimmermann, Inaki Navarro Oiza, Milos Vasic

This paper investigates the problem of controlling a heterogeneous group of vehicles with the aim of forming multi-lane convoys. We use a distributed, graph-based control law, implemented in a longitudinal coordinate system parallel to the road. Each vehic ...

Ieee2016

City Automated Transport System (CATS): The Legacy of an Innovative European Project

Vincent Kaufmann, Philippe Vollichard, Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Clément Louis Ghislain Thémans, Sonia Lavadinho, Raphaël Gindrat, Susana Da Silva Rodrigues Limão, Stéphanie Vincent, Derek Pierre Christie, Arnaud de La Fortelle

CATS is a collaborative European project promoting driverless vehicles that ended in December 2014. This contribution explains how the project evolved, including the handling of unexpected events and concentrating on lessons learned. The constructor and ve ...

2015

An optimization framework for the development of efficient one-way car-sharing systems

Burak Boyaci, Nikolaos Geroliminis, Konstantinos Zografos

Electric vehicle-sharing systems have been introduced to a number of cities as a means of increasing mobility, reducing congestion, and pollution. Electric vehicle-sharing systems can offer one or two-way services. One-way systems provide more flexibility ...

Elsevier2015

Environomic design of vehicle integrated energy systems

Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

To meet the targets of sustainable development and greenhouse emission reduction of the future vehicles fleet, the automotive industry needs to deploy cost-competitive and efficient advanced energy conversion systems for the future commercial personal vehi ...

EPFL2015