In order to maintain cab comfort truck drivers have to idle their engine to obtain the required
power for accessories, such as the air conditioner, heater, television, refrigerator, and lights …

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 …

Internal combustion engines (ICE) still have potential for substantial improvements,
particularly with regard to fuel efficiency and environmental compatibility. In order to fully …

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that
engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that …

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an established control technique in chemical process
control, due to its capability of optimally controlling multivariable systems with constraints on …

Idle speed control is a landmark application of feedback control in automotive vehicles that
continues to be of significant interest to automotive industry practitioners, since improved …

Engine management systems (EMS) has become an essential component of a spark ignition
(SI) engine in order to achieve high performance; low fuel consumption and low exhaust …

With regard to the improvement of efficiency, combustion stability, and emissions in a
gasoline engine at idle condition, an experimental study aimed at improving engine idle …

Due to the narrow flammability of gasoline, pure gasoline-fueled spark-ignited (SI) engines
always encounter partial burning or even misfire at lean conditions. Gasoline engines tend …

PID systems are widely used to apply control without the need to obtain a dynamic model.
However, the performance of controllers designed using standard on-line tuning methods …