Wednesday, August 31

8:00-09:00   Registration open outside of The Blackwell Ballroom (2^nd floor)
Coffee / tea and light snacks available at registration

08:30             Plenary: Greg Shaver, Purdue University  
“Model-based Controls for Low Carbon Commercial Vehicle Engines and Powertrains”, introduced by Qadeer Ahmed

9:30                Coffee Break

10:00             Technical Sessions – WeAT3 and WeAT4

• Onboard Energy Management in Electrified Powertrains, chaired by Mauro Salazar, co-chaired by Athar Hanif – The Blackwell Ballroom
  • 10:00-10:20 – A Sequential Quadratic Programming Approach to Combined Energy and Emission Management of a Heavy-Duty Parallel-Hybrid Vehicle (Paper WeAT3.1)
  • 10:20-10:40 – Cabin Load Prediction Using Time Series Forecasting in Long-Haul Trucks for Optimal Energy Management (Paper WeAT3.2)
  • 10:40-11:00 – Reinforcement Learning Based EV Energy Management for Integrated Traction and Cabin Thermal Management Considering Battery Aging (Paper WeAT3.3)
  • 11:00-11:20 – Energy Management for RCCI Engines with Electrically-Assisted Turbocharging (Paper WeAT3.4)
  • 11:20-11:40 – Decentralized Optimal Energy Efficiency Improvement Strategy for Large-Scale Connected HEVs (Paper WeAT3.5)
  • 11:40-12:00 – Concurrent Powertrain Design for a Family of Electric Vehicles (Paper WeAT3.6)
• Modeling and Simulation Tolls for Vehicular Systems, chaired by Greg Shaver – Pfahl Hall, Room 140
  • 10:00-10:20 – Electric Motor Design Optimization: A Convex Surrogate Modeling Approach (Paper WeAT2.1)
  • 10:20-10:40 – Co-Simulation of the Unreal Engine and MATLAB/Simulink for Automated Grain Offloading (Paper WeAT2.2)
  • 10:40-11:00 – Sim2real for Autonomous Vehicle Control Using Executable Digital Twin (Paper WeAT2.3)
  • 11:00-11:20 – Wheel Odometry Model Calibration with Input Compensation by Optimal Control (Paper WeAT2.4)

12:00             Lunch and Keynote: Gary Parker, Cummins 
“Cummins exponential controls innovation: Our battlefield view towards Destination Zero”, introduced by Carlos Guardiola
SPONSORED BY: Cummins

13:30             Closing Ceremony: Carlos Guardiola, PhD
IFAC AAC Conference Chair
Professor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

14:00             Post-conference Workshops – WeWT2 and WeWT3

• Electrification of Commercial Vehicles– The Blackwell Ballroom
  • Moderated by Giorgio Rizzoni, PhD and featuring panelists:
    • Lars Eriksson, PhD, Linköping University, Sweden: “All-Electric Long Haul Heavy-Duty Vehicles a brief report on the progress from a first Swedish demonstrator program”
    • Gary Parker, Cummins, USA: “Destination Zero:
    • Dave Schaller, NACFE, USA: “Electrification: A Truckload of Changes”
    • Greg Shaver, PhD, Purdue University, USA
• New Advances on Connected and Automated Vehicles – Pfahl Hall, Room 140
  • Moderated by Qadeer Ahmed, PhD and featuring panelists:
    • Ali Borhan, PhD, Cummins, USA: “Impact of connected and automated technology on commercial vehicle performance”
    • Eeshan Deosthale, Motional, USA: “Software in-loop tools to validate and verify automated features”
    • Vivek Moudgal, dSpace, USA:” Verification and validation of AV functions- using MIL/SIL/HIL and in the vehicle”
    • Lars Nielsen, PhD Linköping University, Sweden
    • Scott Hotz, Southwest Research Institute, USA

16:00-17:30 Networking and snacks!
For those staying to the very end, we will have light snacks and non-alcoholic beverages in The Blackwell Ballroom Lobby Area, starting at the end of the workshops until approximately 17:30 p.m.