Progress and recent trends in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines

Fundamental phenomena affecting low temperature combustion and HCCI engines, high load limits and strategies for extending these limits

Fuel design and management for the control of advanced compression-ignition combustion modes

Evolution, challenges and path forward for low temperature combustion engines

This paper presents an active disturbance rejection adaptive control scheme via full state feedback for motion control of hydraulic servo systems subjected to both parametric uncertainties and uncertain nonlinearities. The proposed controller is derived by effectively integrating adaptive control with extended state observer via backstepping method. The adaptive law is synthesized to handle parametric uncertainties and the remaining uncertainties are estimated by the extended state observer and then compensated in a feedforward way. The unique features of the proposed controller are that not only the matched uncertainties but also unmatched uncertainties are estimated by constructing two extended state observers, and the parameter adaptation law is driven by both tracking errors and state estimation errors. Since the majority of parametric uncertainties can be reduced by the parameter adaptation, the task of the extended state observer is much alleviated. Consequently, high-gain feedback is avoided and improved tracking performance can be expected. The proposed controller theoretically achieves an asymptotic tracking performance in the presence of parametric uncertainties and constant disturbances. In addition, prescribed transient tracking performance and final tracking accuracy can also be guaranteed when existing time-variant uncertain nonlinearities. Comparative experimental results are obtained to verify the high tracking performance nature of the proposed control strategy.

Active Disturbance Rejection Adaptive Control of Hydraulic Servo Systems

This paper proposes the adaptive extended state observer (AESO)-based active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) to deal with the uncertainties, both in the plant and in the sensors. The gain of ESO is automatically timely tuned to reduce the estimation errors of both states and “total disturbance” against the measurement noise. Furthermore, the satisfactory performance of the closed-loop system is achieved by compensation for uncertainties. This novel controller is applied to the air–fuel ratio (AFR) control of gasoline engine, which has large nonlinear uncertainties due to the unknown speed change, fuel film dynamics, etc. In addition, the measurement of AFR is polluted by sensor noise. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed controller can ensure high deviation precision of AFR despite both uncertain dynamics and measurement noise. Moreover, the experimental comparison validates the effectiveness of the AESO's gain by which the performance of ADRC on mitigating uncertainties can be improved.

ADRC With Adaptive Extended State Observer and its Application to Air–Fuel Ratio Control in Gasoline Engines

Dynamic behavior of Rankine cycle system for waste heat recovery of heavy duty diesel engines under driving cycle

Comparison of HCCI Combustion Respectively Fueled with Gasoline, Ethanol and Methanol through the Trapped Residual Gas Strategy

The variance in fuel consumption caused by driving style (DS) difference exceeds 10% and reaches a maximum of 20% under different road conditions, even for experienced bus drivers. To study the influence of DS on fuel consumption, a method for summarizing DS characteristic parameters on the basis of vehicle-engine combined model is proposed. With this method, the author proposes 26 DS characteristic parameters related to fuel consumption in the accelerating, normal running, and decelerating processes of vehicles. The influence of DS characteristic parameters on fuel consumption under different road conditions and vehicle masses is quantitatively analyzed on the basis of real driving data over 100,000 km. Analysis results show that the influence of DS characteristic parameters on fuel consumption changes with road condition and vehicle mass, with road condition serving a more important function. However, the DS characteristics in the accelerating process of vehicles are decisive for fuel consumption under different conditions. This study also calculates the minimum sample size necessary for analyzing the effect of DS characteristics on fuel consumption. The statistical analysis based on the real driving data over 2500 km can determine the influence of DS on fuel consumption under a given power-train configuration and road condition. The analysis results can be employed to evaluate the fuel consumption of drivers, as well as to guide the design of Driver Advisory System for Eco-driving directly.

Hui Xie

Papers

ADRC With Adaptive Extended State Observer and its Application to Air–Fuel Ratio Control in Gasoline Engines

Dynamic behavior of Rankine cycle system for waste heat recovery of heavy duty diesel engines under driving cycle

Comparison of HCCI Combustion Respectively Fueled with Gasoline, Ethanol and Methanol through the Trapped Residual Gas Strategy

Effects of driving style on the fuel consumption of city buses under different road conditions and vehicle masses

Study on spark assisted compression ignition (SACI) combustion with positive valve overlap at medium–high load