Design and Control Optimization of Hybrid Electric Vehicles: from Two-Wheel-Drive to All-Wheel-Drive Vehicles by Ziheng Pan A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Mechanical Engineering) in The University of Michigan 2019 Doctoral Committee: Professor Huei Peng, Chair Dr. Tulga Ersal Professor Jessy Grizzle Professor Chinedum Okwudire Dr. Nikhil Ravi Ziheng Pan
[email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9656-0138 © Ziheng Pan 2019 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to my advisor, Professor Huei Peng. Hi guidance, assistance, patience, encouragement, and continuous support have been of enormous crucial to my studies, research, and career development. Without his support, I would not be able to reach this most amazing journey thus far in my life. I would also like to thank my other committee members, Dr. Tulga Ersal, Professor Jessy Grizzle, Professor Chinedum Okwudire, and Dr. Nikhil Ravi, for their helpful advice and comments. I am indebted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Rackham Graduate School, the US-China Clean Energy Research Center, and Robert Bosch LLC for the financial support for my graduate study. As a proud member of the Vehicle Dynamics Lab, I would like to first express my earnest gratitude to the lab alumni: Chiao-Ting Li, Changsun Ahn, Byung-joo Kim, and Xiaowu zhang, whose patient guidance helped me through my research practice. Great appreciation should go to my colleague in VDL for their help, discussion and all the good times we have had in the office: William Smith, Zhenzhong Jia, Huajie ding, Yalian Yang, Daofei Li, Yugong Luo, Diange Yang, Tianyou Guo, Ding Zhao, Baojin Wang, Steven Karamihas, Yuxiao Chen, Oguz Dagzi, Shaobing Xu, Su-Yang Shieh, Xianan Huang, Geunseob Oh, Nauman Sohani, Songan Zhang, Boqi Li, Xinpeng Wang, Minghan Zhu, and Siyuan Feng.