Abstract

Carbon emission is one of the most important challenges of the 21^st century. A significant source of carbon emission is the road freight sector. This talk will cover some of the research activities in Sustainable Road Freight with the aim of reducing carbon emission. The second part of the talk will explain a level 3 autonomous driving technology called Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control. Design of a Fault Tolerant Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control will also be covered. The final part of the talk will cover Vehicle Sideslip Estimation, an important state estimation problem for active vehicle safety systems. The sideslip estimation method, which exploits an innovative load sensing bearing technology from SKF, will be explained using simulation as well as experimental results.

About the speaker

Anil is a postdoctoral research associate at University of Cambridge, UK. His areas of interest are Vehicle Energy Efficiency, Systems and Control, Electric Vehicles and Vehicle Dynamics. He received B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Allahabad in 2006. He received Master of Science Cum Laude in Systems and Control, and PhD from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 2011 and 2016 respectively. He has a total of 5 years of industrial work experience at STMicroelectronics, Indian Institute of Science, Cranes Software and TNO Automotive.