Drive cycle recognition
Drive Cycle Recognition is an advanced vehicle control strategy that uses past driving information, as well as a library of representative drive cycles to extrapolate future vehicle control parameters. For example, the vehicle computer can identify past driving history as one particular representative cycle and use known information from FTP-75 to improve vehicle performance. This type of control strategy is most useful for hybrid vehicles where the control strategy has a much greater effect on vehicle performance than with a regular internal combustion engine driven vehicle.
Identification techniques can be as simple as numerical error calculations or as complex as a self-organizing competitive neural network.
