Automotive engine control and hybrid systems: Challenges and opportunities

A Balluchi, L Benvenuti, MD Di Benedetto… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of engine control systems has been traditionally carried out using a mix of
heuristic techniques validated by simulation and prototy** using approximate average …

Communication infrastructure design in cyber physical systems with applications in smart grids: A hybrid system framework

H Li, A Dimitrovski, JB Song, Z Han… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a survey on communications in CPS and a tutorial of a unified
framework, ie, hybrid system featured by the co-existence of discrete and continuous system …

Computation of maximal safe sets for switching systems

E De Santis, MD Di Benedetto… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of determining maximal safe sets and hybrid controllers is computationally
intractable because of the mathematical generality of hybrid system models. Given the …

The design of dynamical observers for hybrid systems: Theory and application to an automotive control problem

A Balluchi, L Benvenuti, MD Di Benedetto… - Automatica, 2013 - Elsevier
A design methodology is presented for dynamical observers of hybrid systems with linear
continuous-time dynamics that reconstructs the complete state (discrete location and …

Identification of piecewise affine models in noisy environment

C Fantuzzi, S Simani, S Beghelli… - International Journal of …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses the identification of non-linear systems. A wide class of these systems
can be described using non-linear time-invariant regression models, that can be …

Integral sliding mode control for a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems

J Lian, J Zhao, GM Dimirovski - European Journal of Control, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new integral sliding mode control scheme is proposed for a class of
uncertain switched nonlinear systems. First, a nonlinear integral sliding surface is …

Fault-tolerant distributed deployment of embedded control software

C Pinello, LP Carloni… - IEEE transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety-critical feedback-control applications may suffer faults in the controlled plant as well
as in the execution platform, ie, the controller. Control theorists design the control laws to be …

Critical observability of a class of hybrid systems and application to air traffic management

E De Santis, MD Di Benedetto, S Di Gennaro… - … Hybrid Systems: Theory …, 2006 - Springer
We present a novel observability notion for switching systems that model safety–critical
systems, where a set of states–called critical states–must be detected immediately since …

Digital idle speed control of automotive engines: A safety problem for hybrid systems

E De Santis, MD Di Benedetto, G Pola - Nonlinear Analysis: Theory …, 2006 - Elsevier
We address the idle speed control problem in automotive electronics using hybrid methods
to derive a digital control law with guaranteed properties. Associating a switching system …

Uniformly convergent sliding mode‐based observation for switched linear systems

D Mincarelli, A Pisano, T Floquet… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The problem of designing an observer capable of reconstructing the continuous and discrete
states for a class of switched linear systems is addressed. A stack of dynamical observers …