Adaptive Control Strategy and Method for Optimizing Hybrid Electric Vehicles Rodriguez, Fernando Lukic, Srdjan M. Emadi, Ali This invention relates a control strategy for a hybrid electric vehicle having an electric motor, a battery and an internal combustion engine. The control strategy improves fuel economy and reduces emissions while providing sufficient acceleration over a varying set of driving conditions through an adaptive control unit with an artificial neural network. The artificial neural network is trained on a pre-processed training set based on the highest fuel economies of multiple control strategies and multiple driving profiles. Training the artificial neural network includes a training algorithm and a learning algorithm. The invention also includes a method of operating a hybrid electric vehicle with an adaptive control strategy using an artificial neural network. Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology United States Patent 2012-03-20 2011-06-07 text application/pdf islandora:9842 7,954,579 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:9842 en No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access