Presents control-oriented models of automotive AC systems

Preface.- Section I: Model Development.- CFD-based Modeling of Heat Transfer in a Passenger Compartment.- Model Development for Air Conditioning System in Heavy Duty Trucks.- Aggregation-based Thermal Model Reduction.- Section II: Control.- Robust H8 Switching Control of Polytopic Parameter-Varying Systems via Dynamic Output Feedback.- Output Feedback Control of Automotive Air Conditioning System using H8 Technique.- Improving Tracking Performance of Automotive Air Conditioning System via µSynthesis.- Mean-Field Control for Improving Energy Ef¿ciency.- Pseudospectral Optimal Control for Constrained Nonlinear Systems.- Section III: Optimization.- Multi-objective Supervisory Controller for Hybrid Electric Vehicles.- Energy-Optimal Control of an Automotive Air Conditioning System for Ancillary Load Reduction.- Storage Evaporator.- Cruising Control of Hybridized Powertrain for Minimized Fuel Consumption.- Section IV: Fault Diagnosis.- Fault Detection and Isolation with Applications to Vehicle Systems.- Fault Detection and Isolation of Automotive Air Conditioning Systems using First Principle Models.- Evaluating the Performance of Automated Fault Detection and Diagnosis Tools.- Index.