- Docente: Enrico Corti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 8202)
Learning outcomes
Analysis of control, diagnosis and calibration problems regarding internal combustion engines.
Course contents
Introduction to Measurements: sensors for Internal Combustion Engines; the sampling process, aliasing, filters.
Introduction to Control System Analysis: LTI systems, Fourier and Laplace transforms. Feedback Control Systems, precision, stability, promptness.
Engine Control Unit: torque control.
Main Actuations: simulation of a PFI-SI engine ECU.
Combustion Control for SI and CI engines: Spark Advance and injetction pattern calibration, knock diagnosis.
Readings/Bibliography
Azzoni P. M., Strumenti e Misure per l'Ingegneria Meccanica, Hoepli.
Dinamica e Controllo delle Macchine a Fluido, G. Bacchelli, F. Danielli, S. Sandrolini, Edizioni Pitagora, Bologna.
Introduction to modeling and control of internal combustion engine systems", L. Guzzella, C. H. Onder, Springer-Verlag, 2004
Teaching methods
30 hours introduction (measurements, controls).
15 hours detailed Simulink-based explanation of an SI-PFI ECU structure.
15 hours detalied explanation on combustion control, calibration and diagnosis.
Assessment methods
Oral Examination
Teaching tools
Poweropoint Presentations for topics not included in textbooks.
Simulink model for the simulation of an SI-PFI engine ECU.
Office hours
See the website of Enrico Corti