Developments in Control of Time-Delay Systems for Automotive Powertrain Applications

Abstract

To provide an overview of several application problems in the area of automotive powertrain control, which can greatly benefit from applications of analysis and control design methods developed for time-delay systems. The application considered concern, the idle speed control (ISC) in gasoline engines. The nature of the delay and the role played by them in these application is highlighted and the imposed performance limitations are discussed. Links are provided with theoretical literature on the analysis and control of time-delay systems and modeling details are discussed to a level that will permit other researchers to use the associated models for simulation case studies.