Intelligent hybrid vehicle management systems

This paper addresses system design and integration challenges involved in meeting the requirements for coordinated deployment of Intelligent Hybrid Vehicle Systems. A hybrid vehicle can run purely on a gas engine, purely on an electric motor, or a combination of both. Advanced hybrid vehicles are designed to use a vehicle management system that integrates many subsystem functions into one system. However, many recent hybrid vehicles do not focus on the utilization of decision support techniques for the implementation of system design. The decision support design emphasizes a driver-oriented and automatic-oriented drive-by-wire vehicle system. The top-down functional decomposition and bottom-up physical integration design methodologies help to create an augmented functional analysis in the device level software. The significant portions are devoted to introducing the design stages and establishing the hybrid vehicle management system.