The freight transport has a fundamental role in the world’s economic development.Due to the flexibility of heavy-duty vehicles, a large part of freighttransport is carried out inland. Although the use of heavy-duty vehicles contributesto the economic growth, the increased fuel consumption and globalgreenhouse gas emission that come with it constantly challenge the transportationsector to adapt and develop more fuel-efficient methods to reduce suchside effects while fulfilling the transportation requirements.This thesis considers fuel-optimal highway driving for heavy-duty vehicles.A model predictive control algorithm for minimizing fuel consumptionwhile satisfying constraints on desired speed is developed and evaluated. Thecontroller uses the available topography information of the road ahead of thevehicle in order to achieve an efficient vehicle control while satisfying a certaintrip time requirement. Under the assumption of fixed gear during the drivemission, the actual nonlinear problem is re-formulated as a real-time optimalcontrol problem based on MPC theory with a quadratic cost function and linearconstraints at each receding horizon of the drive mission. The QP problem isthen solved online and the resulting first control action is applied to the vehiclefor forward movement.The feasibility to implement such an algorithm on a control unit with limitedcomputational power is investigated and shown to be possible. Both therequirement of low computational complexity and low memory occupation arefulfilled by the tailored quadratic programming algorithm developed in thisthesis. The algorithm is fast enough to provide a solution within each samplinginterval.The overall control algorithm is implemented on a G5 control unit andtested in real life with a Scania truck during highway driving test. The resultsfrom both the real implementation and extensive simulations indicate that themethod provides a fuel-efficient vehicle behavior and is competitive with a rulebasedcontroller. ; Transport av gods har en grundläggande ...