Luigi Del Re, Carlos Guardiola,
"Engine Control"
: Encyclopedia of Systems and Control, Springer, London, 2-2021
Original Titel:
Engine Control
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Encyclopedia of Systems and Control
Original Kurzfassung:
Engine control is the enabling technology for
efficiency, performance, reliability, and cleanliness
of modern vehicles equpped with a
combusion engine for a wide variety of uses
and users. It has also a paramount importance
for many other engine applications like
power plants. Engines are essentially chemical
reactors, and the core task of engine control
consists in preparing and starting the reaction
(mixing the reactants and igniting the mixture)
while the reaction itself is not controlled. The
technical challenge derives from the combination
of high complexity, wide range of conditions
of use, performance requirements, significant
time delays, and several constraints.
In practice, engine control is to a large extent
feed-forward control, feedback loops being
used either for low-level control or for updating
the feed forward. Industrial engine control
is based on very complex structures calibrated
experimentally, but there is a growing interest
for model-based control with stronger feedback
action, supported by the breakthrough of
new computational and communication possibilities,
as well as by the introduction of new
sensors.
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