Pedal power: Clemson students try to spin research into smarter workouts

How do you pace yourself when exercising on the treadmill or when riding a bike along a hilly road? We are trying to find the best exercise strategies by constructing and validating individualized models of fatigue and recovery. Several students, collaborators, and test subjects have contributed to this research. We are hoping to be able to provide real-time feedback to a person during exercise to maximize the return on their effort and time.

Our joint paper with Argonne National Lab and Dr. Jia’s group wins Best Paper Prize of Road User Measurement and Evaluation Committee at TRB 2024.

Jihun Han, Tyler Ard,Prakhar Gupta, Rongyao Wang, Ardalan Vahidi, Yunyi Jia, Dominik Karbowski, “Human Driver Interaction with An Eco-Speed Advisory System in Connected Vehicles: Simulation and Experimental Results,” Proceeding of Transportation Research Board, 2024.

ACES for Clemson: A $4.3 Million award by US Department of Energy enables deployment of up to 10 Automated Connected Electric Shared (ACES) shuttles by Optimus Ride on Clemson Campus for a period of 3 years, serving students, faculty, and staff. Our team at Clemson will collaborate with University of California at Berkeley and Argonne National Laboratory teams to investigate the impact in a number of areas in particular energy, carbon footprint, and equity as compared to conventional Clemson University Transit and analyze scale up to other campuses and metropolitan areas.

Our paper titled “Optimizing Gap Tracking Subject to Dynamic Losses via Connected and Anticipative MPC in Truck Platooning” presented at 2020 American Control Conference received the Automotive and Transportation Systems Technical Committee Best Paper Award.

Automotive News: ‘Ghost’ AV research may put the brakes on stop-and-go traffic

Our Field Experiments on Energy Efficient Driving of Automated Vehicles In Clemson News.

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Our paper titled “Predictively Coordinated Vehicle Acceleration and Lane Selection Using Mixed Integer Programming” presented at 2018 ASME DSC Conference received the Automotive and Transportation Systems Best Paper Award.

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Our book titled “Energy Efficient Driving of Road Vehicles” by Antonio Sciarretta and Ardalan Vahidi is now published.

Faraz Ashtiani was voted the best presenter among 29 participants at the pilot rapid fire session of 2019 American Control Conference. He presented “Experimental Modeling of Cyclists’ Fatigue and Recovery Dynamics Enabling Optimal Pacing in a Time-Trial.”