Electromobility Studies Based on Convex Optimization DESIGN AND CONTROL ISSUES REGARDING VEHICLE ELECTRIFICATION

This article presents a framework to study design tradeoffsin the search for electromobility solutions based on approximatemodeling of the power flows in the powertrain as afunction of component sizes. An important consequence ofthe modeling assumptions is that the optimal energy managementand component sizes can be computed simultaneouslyin a convex program, which means that competingdesigns can be evaluated in an objective way, avoiding theinfluence of a separate control system design. The fact thatthe optimization problem is convex allows large problemsto be solved with moderate computational resources, whichcan be exploited by, for example, running optimizationsover very long driving cycles. The problem formulationalso admits design decisions for the charging infrastructureto be included in the optimization