34956 - Control of Internal Combustion Engines (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • 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: feedback Control Systems, precision, stability, promptness.

Engine Control Unit: torque control.

SI engines: control variables, effects on performance and pollutant emissions. Combustion control for SI engines.

SI engines: air charge estimation, air dynamics, fuel dynamics, AFR feedback control.

Main Actuations: simulation of a PFI-SI engine ECU.

CI engines: control variables, effects on performance and pollutant emissions. Combustion control for CI engines.

CI engines: air path, fuel path, torque smmothing functions. DPF control, SCR control.

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

Course slides.

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