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ORNL awarded $3.36 million for automated, connected vehicle research

Posted at 2:26 pm November 7, 2016
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Connected, automated vehicles will be part of an integrated control technologies-based system that could increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Image by ORNL)

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been awarded $3.36 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, to develop novel control technologies for connected and automated vehicles with the goal of achieving a 20 percent improvement in vehicle energy efficiency, a press release said.

The project will focus on developing and implementing control technologies in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, or PHEV, to achieve the following: compute optimal routing to bypass bottlenecks, accidents, special events, and other conditions that affect traffic flow; accelerate and decelerate optimally based on traffic conditions and the state of the surrounding roads; and optimize onboard powertrain efficiency.

“This approach changes the mathematical framework of how the vehicle is controlled and optimized today,” said ORNL’s Andreas Malikopoulos, the project’s principal investigator. “With our proposed concept, the vehicle will no longer operate in isolation but will be considered as part of an integrated system, which ultimately could help increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Andreas Malikopoulos, ARPA-E, Boston University, Christos Cassandras, Huei Peng, Li Jiang, NEXT-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicle, NEXTCAR, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, PHEV, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, Robert Bosch LLC, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Michigan, vehicle energy efficiency, vehicle research

Local rowers earn invitation to 2016 USRowing Youth National Championships

Posted at 2:48 pm May 31, 2016
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Sarah Kate Rogers and Clara Hay

Sarah Kate Rogers, right, of Oak Ridge and Clara Hay of Knoxville qualified for the 2016 USRowing Youth National Championships based on their medal-winning performances at the USRowing Southeast Youth Championships earlier this month. Rogers won a silver medal in the Women’s Youth Single (WY1x), and, rowing with Hay, won a bronze medal in the Women’s Youth Pair (WY2). (Photo by Shannon Moore)

 

By Jim Rogers

The Atomic Rowing Junior program at Oak Ridge Rowing Association has qualified two rowers for the 2016 USRowing Youth National Championships based on their medal-winning performances at the USRowing Southeast Youth Championships earlier this month. Sarah Kate Rogers of Oak Ridge won a silver medal in the Women’s Youth Single (WY1x) and, rowing with Clara Hay of Knoxville, won a bronze medal in the Women’s Youth Pair (WY2).

In the single event, Rogers—competing against young ladies from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee—progressed easily through the 2,000-meter heats before narrowly losing in the final to Mikayla Dutton of Inverness, Florida, a 2016 University of Tennessee signee.

In the Women’s Youth Pair final, Rogers and Hay earned bronze behind strong performances from experienced crews from Nashville and Jacksonville, Florida. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Rowing, Slider, Sports, Sports Tagged With: 2016 USRowing Youth National Championships, Atomic Juniors, Atomic Rowing, Atomic Rowing Junior, Boston University, Catholic High School, Clara Hay, Jim Rogers, Junior Atomic Rowing, Oak Ridge Rowing Association, Sarah Kate Rogers, Shannon Moore, USRowing Southeast Youth Championships, USRowing Youth National Championship, Women's Youth Pair, Women's Youth Single

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