Description
This book will enable researchers, control engineers and automotive engineers to understand the engine and whole-vehicle models necessary for control. A range of contributors from academic and industrial backgrounds cover subjects from suspension control to Hamiltonian formulation of bond graphs. Implementation of an Active Suspension, Preview Controller for Improved Ride Comfort.- Active and Passive Suspension Control for Vehicle Dive and Squat.- Modeling of Drivers’ Longitudinal Behavior.- Nonlinear Adaptive Backstepping with Estimator Resetting Using Multiple Observers.- ABS Control: A Design Model and Control Structure.- Controller Design for Hybrid Systems Using Simultaneous D-stabilisation and Its Application to Anti-lock Braking Systems.- Wheel Slip Control in ABS Brakes Using Gain Scheduled Constrained LQR.- Friction Tire/Road Modeling, Estimation and Optimal Braking Control.- Nonlinear Observer Control of Internal Combustion Engines with EGR.- Idle Speed Control Synthesis Using an Assume-Guarantee Approach.- Fault Diagnosis of Switched Non-linear Dynamical Systems with Application to a Diesel Injection System.- Modelling of the Dynamic Behavior of Three-way Catalytic Converters During the Warm-up Phase.- Control of Gasoline Direct Injection Engines Using Torque Feedback: A Simulation Study.- Closed-loop Combustion Control of HCCI Engines.- Approximations of Maximal Controlled Safe Sets for Hybrid Systems.- Hamiltonian Formulation of Bond Graphs.- Stability Analysis of Hybrid Systems: A Gear-box Application.- On the Experience and Uniqueness of Solution Trajectories to Hybrid Dynamical Systems.
