<p style="text-align: justify;">U radu je razvijen jedan matematički model za simuliranje ponašanja nekih važnih radnih parametara motora SUS, kada u njegovom usisnom sistemu postoje neispravnosti tipa: &bdquo;nepredviđeni ulaz vazduha u usisni kolektor&ldquo;, &bdquo;pogrešno očitavanje senzora masenog protoka vazduha&ldquo;, &bdquo;pogrešno očitavanje senzora pritiska u usisnom kolektoru&ldquo;, &bdquo;pogrešno očitavanje senzora temperature u usisnom kolektoru&ldquo; i &bdquo;umanjen EGR protok&ldquo;. Na osnovu rezultata ovog modela predložen je novi dijagnostički koncept, u okviru kojeg je razvijen jedan model za prepoznavanje pomenutih neispravnosti. Predloženi koncept je proveren na realnim podacima, prikupljenim ispitivanjem jednog stvarnog motora u laboratorijskim uslovima, pri čemu su dobijeni zadovoljavajući rezultati.</p> / <p>A mathematical model capable of simulating some important IC engine operating parameters behavior when a fault in its intake air path exists. The faults considered are of the following types: &bdquo;air leakage in the intake path&ldquo;, &bdquo;faulty mass air flow sensor&ldquo;, &bdquo;faulty manifold absolute pressure sensor&ldquo;, &bdquo;faulty intake air temperature sensor&ldquo; and &bdquo;clogged EGR pipe&ldquo;. Relying on the data obtained by the fault simulator, a novel diagnosis concept is proposed. A model for fault detection and diagnosis was developed in the scope of the concept. The proposed concept was tested on the real data collected from an automobile IC engine in the laboratory conditions and satisfying results were obtained.</p>

Engine Management Systems (EMS) is getting more complicated each year with new functions being introduced due to tighter emission regulations of both air quality and CO2. This directly a ects the calibration process of a powertrain because the number of vehicle parameters has increased about 10 times in the last 10 years. Self-calibrating feature such as proposed in this thesis has the potential to increase the e ciency of calibrating a complex EMS. The feature is intended to adapt itself to the engine behaviour and performance by continuously updating its calibration maps as the engine is being operated. This process will reduce the needs for new calibration data and additional ne-tuning when an EMS is being carried over to a di erent vehicle. The self-calibrating feature automatically adjusts the air path calibration maps of an engine. It adjusts the air path setpoint maps in real-time for steady state operating conditions.

La chaîne d'air du moteur est devenue un élément essentiel dans le développement des moteurs modernes. Le contrôle du système d'air a un impact direct sur les performances du moteur ainsi que sur son niveau d'émission de polluants. En effet, les stratégies qui agissent sur le système d'air permettent de contrôler les composants introduits dans le cylindre, ce qui est un moyen efficace et rentable de réduire les émissions polluantes. En conséquence, les chaînes d'air des moteurs modernes sont devenues de plus en plus complexes afin d'atteindre les stratégies de réduction de pollution et de permettre des réductions de consommation de carburant. Dans ce contexte, cette thèse se focalise sur la modélisation et le contrôle de la chaîne d'air des moteurs Diesel. / The engine air-path has become a crucial part in the development of modern engines. The control of the air-path has a direct impact on the engine performance as well as on its pollutant emission level. Indeed, air system strategies allow controlling the species that are introduced in the cylinder, which is a cost-effective way to reduce pollutant emissions. As a consequence, the automotive air systems have become increasingly complex in order to achieve pollutant reduction strategies and to allow fuel consumption reductions. In this context, this thesis focuses on the modeling and control of the air-path of Diesel engines. We divide this work into short-term developments and medium-long term developments.

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This thesis mainly focuses on parallel hybrid electric vehicle energy management problems considering fueling control and air path dynamics of a diesel engine. It aims to explore the concealed fuel-saving potentials in conventional energy management strategies, by employing detailed engine models. The contributions of this study lie on the following aspects: 1) Fueling control consists of fuel injection mass and timing control. By properly selecting combinations of fueling control variables and torque split ratio, engine efficiency is increased and the HEV fuel consumption is further reduced. 2) A transient engine model considering air path dynamics is applied to more accurately predict engine torque. A model predictive control based energy management strategy is developed and solved by dynamic programming. The fuel efficiency is improved, comparing the proposed strategy to those that ignore the engine transients. 3) A novel adaptive control-step learning model predictive control scheme is proposed and implemented in HEV energy management design. It reveals a trade-off between control accuracy and computational efficiency for the MPC based strategies, and demonstrates a good adaptability to the variation of driving cycle while maintaining low computational burden. 4) Two methods are presented to deal with the conjunction between consecutive functions in the piece-wise linearization for the energy management problem. One of them shows a fairly close performance with the original nonlinear method, but much less computing time. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The work reported in this thesis explores innovative control structures and controller design for a heavy duty Caterpillar C6.6 diesel engine. The aim of the work is not only to demonstrate the optimisation of engine performance in terms of fuel consumption, NOx and soot emissions, but also to explore ways to reduce lengthy calibration time and its associated high costs. The test engine is equipped with high pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and a variable geometry turbocharger (VGT). Consequently, there are two principal inputs in the air-path: EGR valve position and VGT vane position. The fuel injection system is common rail, with injectors electrically actuated and includes a multi-pulse injection mode. With two-pulse injection mode, there are as many as five control variables in the fuel-path needing to be adjusted for different engine operating conditions.

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Dans l’environnement concurrentiel d’aujourd’hui, la mondialisation des marchés et les enjeux socio-écologiques du développement durable représentent des défis majeurs pour l’industrie automobile. Afin de relever ces défis, les entreprises doivent investir dans des outils de développent plus performants. Pour améliorer la performance d’un moteur thermique en termes de consommation et d’émissions une compréhension enrichie de la boucle d’air autour du moteur et de l’interaction entre ses composants est indispensable Cette thèse suit deux axes de recherche dans ce contexte. Dans un premier temps, les problèmes liés à la modélisation d’une boucle d’air globale sont traités. En particulier, sont modélisés le débit d’air entre les différents sous-systèmes, la combustion en fonction du degré vilebrequin, la pulsation du débit et de la pression et l’estimation de la force aérodynamique sur les vannes des turbocompresseurs à géométrie variable (TGV). Cette étude de modélisation détaillée à été utilisée pour mettre en place un simulateur de la boucle d’air, qui prend en compte ces interactions et qui peut prédire l’influence des sous-systèmes sur la boucle globale. En suite, l’effort de notre recherche a été consacré à la modélisation des actionneurs mécatroniques de la boucle d’air et de leur comportement non linéaire dû au frottement, aux variations de la température, etc. Un modèle dynamique non linéaire à été développé et intégré dans le simulateur. Ce modèle peut être adapté aux plusieurs types d’actionneurs commerciaux. Le simulateur complet à été implémenté sous AMESim pour les modèles du moteur et de la boucle d’air, et sous Simulink pour le contrôle. Les modèles ont été paramétrées selon les spécifications d’un moteur commercial et le simulateur à été validé expérimentalement. Finalement, des lois de commande robustes ont été étudiées pour le contrôle en position (contrôle locale) des actionneurs. Un contrôleur adaptatif à été développé pour garantir la performance des actionneurs malgré des changements dans le frottement, ainsi que dans la charge externe. La performance de toutes les méthodes étudiées, a été validée expérimentalement. / Today’s globally competitive market and its associated environmental and social issues of sustainable development are major challenges for the automobile industry. To meet them, the industry needs to invest in high performance development tools. For improving engine performance in terms of consumption and emission, the interactions between the subsystems of the engine air-path need to be understood. This thesis followed two major axes of research in this context. First, the problems related to the modeling of the global air-path system were studied, which include the airflow characteristics between the different subsystems of the air-path, high frequency combustion modeling and pulsating airflow, and estimation of the exhaust aerodynamic force on the vanes of variable geometry turbochargers (VGT). The detailed modeling study was used for developing an engine air-path simulator, which takes into account these interactions and predicts the influence of subsystems on the global air-path. The second axis of research was focused on modeling of mechatronic actuators of the air-path, taking into account their nonlinear behavior due to friction and changes in operating conditions. A generic nonlinear dynamic model was developed and included in the simulator. This model can be adapted to most commercial actuators. The complete simulator has been implemented using AMESim for engine and air-path modeling, and Simulink for control. It has been parameterized according to the specifications of a commercial diesel engine and validated against experimental data. Finally, robust local controllers were studied for actuator position control, aimed at guaranteeing the performance of the actuators under parametric uncertainty and external disturbances. An advanced controller was developed, which adapts to changes in friction characteristics of the actuator and external load changes. The performance of all controllers has been demonstrated experimentally.

Depuis la création des moteurs à combustion interne, les recherches sur les moteurs essence et diesel se sont développées indépendamment. Afin de réduire les temps et les coûts de développement d’un moteur, une approche unifiée de conception serait intéressante. Dans ce cadre, le contrôle et la mise au point des moteurs à combustion interne pourrait être elle aussi unifiée. Bien évidemment, ce contrôle doit être stable, robuste vis-à-vis des disparités de fabrication, comme de fonctionnement. Cette thèse porte alors sur une démarche unifiée, pour les moteurs essence comme pour les moteurs diesel, afin d’obtenir un contrôle robuste de la chaîne d’air du moteur. La chaîne d’air du moteur contient les éléments permettant de contrôler la quantité et les proportions d’air et de gaz neutres dans le cylindre (Recirculation des gaz d’échappement, papillon d’admission, turbocompresseur). Cette démarche unifiée de commande, permettant de contrôler les systèmes monovariables, tout comme multivariables non carrés (nombre d’entrées différent du nombre de sorties), contient plusieurs étapes : identification d’un modèle du système, analyse du système permettant d’en déduire une structure de contrôle, synthèse d’un contrôleur autour d’un nominal, vérification de la robustesse en stabilité, tests du contrôle. Le couplage des entrées vers les sorties, les non linéarités sont pris en compte lors de la synthèse du contrôleur. Cette méthode de conception a été validée sur plusieurs applications dont un moteur essence et un moteur diesel. Des résultats expérimentaux sur un banc moteur diesel haute dynamique ont montrés que la commande multivariable permettait de réduire les émissions d’oxydes d’azote. / Since the creation of internal combustion engines, research on gasoline and diesel engines were developed independently. To reduce the time and cost of developing an engine, a unified design approach would be interesting. In this context, control and development of internal combustion engines could also be unified. Obviously, this control must be stable, robust with respect to manufacturing disparities and operating points. This thesis then focuses on a unified approach for gasoline engines as well as diesel engines, to achieve a robust of the air path. The engine air path contains the information needed to control the amount and proportions of air and neutral gases in the cylinder (exhaust gas recirculation, throttle valve, turbocharger). This unified approach to control monovariable systems, as well as non-square multivariable systems (number of inputs different from the number of outputs), consists of several steps: identification of a model of the system, system analysis to deduce a control structure, synthesis of a controller around a nominal model, check robust stability, control tests. The coupling inputs to outputs and nonlinearities are taken into account during the synthesis of the controller. This design method has been validated in several applications including a gasoline engine and a diesel engine. Experimental results on a diesel engine high dynamics test bench have shown that the multivariable control results in lower emissions of nitrogen oxides.