An intelligent automotive climate control system

Author

Wei, Kuang C. ; Dage, Gary A.

Author_Institution

Res. Lab., Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

22-25 Oct 1995

Firstpage

2977

Abstract

An intelligent automotive climate control system based on human-sensory response is developed and described in this paper. The system uses the skin temperature of the vehicle occupant, measured by a passive remote infrared sensor, and an intelligent controller to improve the perceived thermal comfort of the occupant. Thermal comfort is characterized in terms of a set of comfortable skin temperatures for different climate conditions. The controller monitors and regulates the skin temperature and air temperature to maintain the desired thermal comfort level. The new system not only increases the robustness of the controller, also renders a structure for a fully automatic (with minimal human intervention) climate control system

Keywords

air conditioning; automobiles; infrared detectors; intelligent control; remote sensing; temperature control; automotive climate control system; human-sensory response; intelligent control; passive remote infrared sensor; skin temperature; temperature control; thermal comfort; Automatic control; Automotive engineering; Control systems; Intelligent control; Intelligent sensors; Intelligent systems; Intelligent vehicles; Skin; Temperature control; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1995. Intelligent Systems for the 21st Century., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2559-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1995.538237

Filename

538237