Future Automotive Systems: Modeling, Design and Control (2nd edition)

Mauro Salazar is an Assistant Professor in the Control Systems Technology group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zürich in 2019. Before joining TU/e he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Autonomous Systems Lab at Stanford University. Dr. Salazar’s research is at the interface of control theory and optimization, and is aimed at the development of a comprehensive set of tools for the design, the deployment and the operation of sustainable mobility systems. Dr. Salazar received the Outstanding Bachelor Award and the Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Award from ETH Zürich. Both his Master thesis and PhD thesis were recognized with the ETH Medal, and he was granted the Best Student Paper award at the 2018 Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference.

Theo Hofman is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research interests are developing integrated design methods that provide system-wide solutions for complex dynamic engineering systems. This research incorporates several related fields: automated computational design synthesis for discrete topology design using platform-based methods and constraint programming techniques, integrated plant and control design using model-based approaches. Current applications are high tech powertrain systems for the automotive and maritime engineering field. Results are new computer-aided engineering tools for product design making complex products affordable in a reduced time and new insights by applying these methods for a large range of fields that incorporate co design and design space exploration.

Prof. Anna Stefanopoulou is the William Clay Ford Professor of Technology at the University of Michigan. She was an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a visiting professor at ETH, Zurich, and a technical specialist at Ford. She earned her diploma in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (91, NTUA, Athens), her PhD in Electrical Engineering (96, UMICH, Ann Arbor). She has one book, 21 US patents, 400 publications (7 of which have received awards) on estimation and multivariable control of engines, fuel cells and batteries. She is a Fellow of the ASME (08), IEEE (09), and SAE (18).

Lars Eriksson is Full Professor in Vehicular Systems at Linköping University. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering 1995 and the PhD degree in Vehicular Systems in May 1999 both from Linköping University. During 2000 and 2001 he spent one year as a post doc in the Measurement and Control group at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Since then he has been employed at Vehicular Systems first as Assistant Professor then as Associate Professor and now as Full Professor.

Professor Eriksson is currently managing the engine laboratory at Vehicular Systems. His research interests are modeling, simulation, and control of internal combustion engines for vehicle propulsion in general, but with a focus on downsizing and supercharging concepts for improved fuel economy. His contributions are foremost on engine control and control oriented modeling of combustion engines. However, the research interest spans from the broad area of energy efficient vehicle propulsion into in-cylinder processes, where his research was the first to demonstrate real-time control of the combustion timing using information obtained from the ion current. He has published one book, three book chapters, and more than 185 international peer reviewed conference and journal papers. As the manager of the engine laboratory he has developed a well-established network of contacts with research groups both in academia and in industry.

Professor Eriksson is also active in the academic societies and is currently a member of the IFAC Technical Board as Chair for Coordinating Committee CC 7 on Transportation and Vehicle Systems. He is also Associate Editor for the Elsevier journal Control Engineering Practice, and has served as Adjoint Technical Editor for several conferences such as for example the IFAC World Congresses 2011, 2014 and 2017 and Advances in Automotive Control 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 E-COSM 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015. He served in the roles as NOC or IPC Chairs for the events: E-CoSM  2009, 2015, 2018 and AAC 2016, 2019.

Sergio M. Savaresi received the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 1992), the Ph.D. in Systems and Control Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 1996), and the M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (Catholic University, Brescia, 2000). After the Ph.D. he worked as management consultant at McKinsey&Co, Milan Office. He is Full Professor in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano since 2006 . He is Deputy Director and Chair of the Systems&Control Section of Department of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano. He is author of more than 500 scientific publications. His main interests are in the areas of vehicles control, automotive systems, data analysis and system identification, non-linear control theory, and control applications, with special focus on smart mobility. He has been manager and technical leader of more than 400 research projects in cooperation with private companies. He is co-founder of 10 high-tech startup companies. He is the team leader of PoliMOVE, the winner of the the Autonomous Challenge @ CES 2022 (first ever high-speed fully-autonomous head-to-head multi-agent race).

Nikolce Murgovski is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Division of Systems and Control, Chalmers University of Technology. He received the M.S. degree in Software Engineering from University West, Trollhättan, Sweden, in 2007, and the M.S. degree in Applied Physics and the PhD degree in Systems and Control from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. His research interests are in optimisation, optimal control, modelling, online learning and estimation. His typical research projects are within electromobility, autonomous driving and automotive active safety.

Marcel Menner is a Research Scientist at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). He received the M.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Munich (2016) for which he was awarded the Degree of Excellence. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016). He earned the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich (2020). Dr. Menner’s research combines algorithms with data and mathematical models for control, with applications to autonomous and electric vehicles.

David Howey is Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, UK. He leads a group researching modelling and control of energy storage systems, with a particular focus on Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles and grid/off-grid storage, funded by Faraday Institution, EPSRC, EU and industry. He received an MEng degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and a PhD from Imperial College London in 2010. He is co-founder of Brill Power Ltd., a company spun-out of his lab in 2016 focused on advanced battery management systems.