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Product Description This engineering textbook is designed to introduce advanced control systems for vehicles, including advanced automotive concepts and the next generation of vehicles for ITS. For each automotive control problem considered, the authors emphasize the physics and underlying principles behind the control system concept and design. This is an exciting and rapidly developing field for which many articles and reports exist but no modern unifying text. An extensive list of references is provided at the end of each chapter for all the topics covered. It is currently the only textbook, including problems and examples, that that covers and integrates the topics of automotive powertrain control, vehicle control, and intelligent transportation systems. The emphasis is on fundamental concepts and methods for automotive control systems, rather than the rapidly changing specific technologies. Many of the text examples, as well as the end-of-chapter problems, require the use of MATLAB and/or SIMULINK. Book Description This engineering textbook is designed to introduce advanced control systems for vehicles, including advanced automotive concepts and the next generation of vehicles for ITS. For each automotive control problem considered, the authors emphasize the physics and underlying principles behind the control system concept and design. About the Author A. Galip Ulsoy is the C. D. Mote, Jr Distinguished University Professor, the William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing and the Deputy Director of the Ground Robotics Reliability Center and the Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan since 1980 and was the founding Director of the Program in Manufacturing. He served as the Technical Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control and the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Me