Transient Control of Gasoline Engines

Car electronics and digital processing technology have been used to improve the efficiency and performance of engines for decades, yet the main focus is still on static or pseudo-static mode, while the engines loaded in the road vehicles are not always operated at static mode. This book describes the behavior of engine dynamics operated at transient mode as a dynamical system, and uses advanced control theory to design a real-time control strategy that can be used to improve efficiency and emission performance.

Tielong Shen earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. Since April 1992, he has been a faculty member and the chair of control engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sophia University, where he currently serves as a professor. Since 2005, he has also served as "Luojia Xuezhe" Chair Professor of Wuhan University, China. His research interests include control theory and applications in mechanical systems, powertrain, and automotive systems. He has authored and coauthored numerous articles and books and serves as a member of the IEEE Technical Committee and IFAC Technical Committee on Automotive Control. Jiangyan Zhang received B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, in 2005 and 2008, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2011. From April 2011 to March 2013, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at SHEN Laboratory of Sophia University, and currently is an assistant professor with the College of Electromechanical and Information Engineering of Dalian Nationalities University, China. Her research interests are mainly in nonlinear dynamical control theory and application to the automotive powertrain systems. Xiaohong Jiao earned her PhD in mechanical engineering from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2004. She is a professor with the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China. Her current research interests include robust adaptive control of nonlinear systems and time-delay systems and applications to hybrid distributed generation systems and automotive powertrain. Mingxin Kang earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2015. For the past three years, he has applied himself to the study of engine transient control and real-time optimization

Introduction. Mathematical Model of Gasoline Engines. Speed Control. Air-Fuel Ratio Control. Receding Horizon Optimal Control. Balancing Control. Residual Gas and Stochastic Control. Benchmark Problems for Control and Modeling of Automotive Gasoline Engine. Bibliography.