Idle Control of Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) is an important mode of Engine Management Systems (EMS) due to its effects on Fuel Consumption (FC) and pollutions produced in urban traffics. In thi....
Engine Start/Stop systems reduce CO₂ emissions by turning off the combustion engine at vehicle standstill. This avoids the injection of fuel that would otherwise be needed simply to overcome internal ....
The purpose of an engine controller is to fulfil emission, consumption and driveability requirements and to be able to fully utilize the potential of a modern engine with its high degree of freedom, t....
The fuel air ratio imbalance between individual cylinders can result in poor fuel economy and severe exhaust emissions. Individual cylinder fuel air ratio control is one of the important techniques us....
Common-rail fuel injection systems on modern light-duty diesel engines are effectively able to respond instantaneously to changes in the demanded injection quantity. In contrast, the air-system is sub....
On Board Diagnostics norms enforced by regulatory authorities of many countries require logging of distance traveled by the vehicle with MIL (malfunction indicator lamp) illuminated. This log needs to....
This paper investigates model free approaches to monitor the Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) for a diesel engine equipped with EGR cooler and EGR cooler bypass valve. A conventional way of monitoring ....
Increasing oil prices combined with gradually more stringent regulations for the sulfur content of heavy fuel oil as well as more stringent emission legislations lead to rising costs of ownership for ....
Internal combustion engines for vehicle propulsion are more and more sophisticated due to increasingly restrictive environmental regulations. In case of heavy-duty engines, Compressed Natural Gas (CNG....
Beginning in 2010, implementation of on-board diagnostics (OBD) is mandatory for all the heavy-duty engine applications in the United States. The task of developing OBD strategies and calibrating them....
The notion of open source systems has been well established in systems software and typified by the development of the Linux operating system. An open source community is a community of interest that ....
Future automotive engines have to comply with upcoming emission legislations (EURO 6, CARB 2) raising the requirements on onboard diagnostic systems (OBD). Faulty conditions of the engine leading to h....
Faults in the intake and exhaust path of turbocharged common-rail diesel engines lead to an increase of emissions and to performance losses. Fault detection strategies based on plausibility checks, th....
A cost effective means of achieving fuel economy gains in conventional powertrain is to utilize a 12 volt start/stop (S/S) system to turn the engine off and on during periods of vehicle idle. This pap....
This paper describes the advantage of the integrated simulation platform and presents the results of performance simulations and the feed-forward air-fuel ratio (AFR) controller design of a new concep....
The aim of this paper is to compile the state of the art of engine control and develop scenarios for improvements in a number of applications of engine control where the pace of technology change is a....
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 engin....
A frequency-domain approach to balancing of air-fuel ratio (A/F) in a multi-cylinder engine is described. The technique utilizes information from a single Wide-Range Air-Fuel ratio (WRAF) or a single ....
Fuel economy improvement and stringent emission regulations worldwide require advanced air charging and combustion technologies, such as low temperature combustion, PCCI or HCCI combustion. Furthermor....
This paper summarizes a systematic approach to control of nonlinear automotive systems exposed to fast transients. This approach is based on a combined application of hardware characterization, which ....
