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Automotive industry has been developing technologies to reduce exhaust emission. Moreover, developing an environmentally friendly diesel engine will become the most important issue in the future engine technology. A modern well-tuned diesel engine no longer smokes and the noise has been attenuated to more acceptable levels. In spite of these efforts, emission of particulates and nitrogen oxides (NOx) have not been equally successful. Therefore, the accurate control method of diesel engines is coming up in solving the problems related with NOx and PM. The diesel engine is a highly nonlinear system and the modeling parameters are changed significantly for different operating points. Therefore, it is very difficult to control the diesel engine system accurately. Every engine system model is actually composed of a variety of maps. And then, actuators like dc motors are controlled for transferring the appropriate flow rate to the manifolds.

The regulation of NOx emission from a diesel engine is becoming stricter by the environmental agency and furthermore, EGR has been adopted to reduce NOx emission. Air flow control of a diesel engine combined with turbocharger and EGR is complicated because turbocharger and EGR are coupled physically. This paper examines the design of a model based control structure for diesel engine with a turbocharger and EGR. Model based control provides desirable control strategies from the physical analysis of an engine model. Air fraction and exhaust manifold pressure target based control simulation was conducted in this research. Engine is highly nonlinear and susceptible to uncertainties. To overcome this problem, a robust controller was designed by using a sliding mode control method.