The Art of Control Engineering: Science Meets Industrial Reality

This paper is intended to stimulate a discussion between academia and industry on automotive control. It lists requirements that usually are not covered in control classes but are important for the way control is practiced in the automotive industry, among them are calibratability, extendibility, or testability of controllers. Then, three examples are discussed in more detail, one being energy management for hybrid electric vehicles. In the discussion, we suggest some research topics.