Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems in Automotive Control, 2003

Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems in Automotive Control will enable researchers, control engineers and automotive engineers to understand the engine and whole-vehicle models necessary for control. A new generation of control strategies has become necessary because of the increasingly rigorous requirements of vehicle and engine control systems for accuracy, ride comfort, safety, complexity, functionality and emission levels. In contrast with earlier systems, these new control systems are based on dynamic physical models and the principles of advanced nonlinear control. The contributors to this work come from both academic and industrial backgrounds and the subjects they cover include: suspension control; modelling of driver position and behaviour; anti-lock braking systems and optimal braking control; stability analysis of hybrid systems; Hamiltonian formulation of bond graphs; approximation of maximal controlled safe sets for hybrid systems. This book should be of use to academic researchers and graduate students as well as to engineers in the automotive industry.

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.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras