Drive cycle recognition

Drive Cycle Recognition (abbr. DCR) is an advanced vehicle control strategy that uses past driving information, as well as a library of representative drive cycles to extrapolate future vehicle control parameters.^[1] For example, the vehicle computer can identify past driving history as one particular representative cycle (say, FTP-75) and use known information from FTP-75 to improve vehicle performance. This type of control strategy is most useful for hybrid vehicles where the control strategy has a much greater effect on vehicle performance than with a regular internal combustion engine driven vehicle.

Identification techniques can be as simple as numerical error calculations (such as Mean squared error) or as complex as a self-organizing competitive neural network.

• Abdollahi, Arezoo; Nikravesh, S.K.; Menha, M.B. (2007). "An Intelligent Control Strategy in a Parallel Hybrid Vehicle". Journal of Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 4(2).