“…In recent years, the greater demand for passenger comfort, which requires a reduction of the noise and vibration characteristics of vehicles, has led to the design of proper models for conventional vehicle drivetrains and to the development of different control strategies to minimize the effects of drivetrain oscillations: robust pole placement (Stewart et al, 2005), H ∞ optimization (Lefebvre et al, 2003), linear quadratic gaussian control design with loop transfer recovery (LQG/LTR) (Berriri et al, 2008) and even model predictive control (MPC) (Rostalski et al, 2007). Although the majority of the control strategies that are implemented on real vehicles are based on heuristics and look-up tables, it was shown that MPC has a large potential for control of automotive subsystems, e.g., mechatronic actuators (Di Cairano et al, 2007), driveline (Saerens et al, 2008), engine (Di Cairano et al, 2010).…”