Monitoring and control of a turbocharged marine diesel engine using small laboratory microcomputer systems

The work described falls naturally into two separate but related parts. In the first part, three digital control algorithms are examined based on (i) PID (ii) modified deadbeat and (iii) a linguistic rule-based approach and their performance in regulating a medium-sized marine diesel engine is assessed. The other aspect of the work describes a first attempt at providing a graphical interface with the operator for the real-time monitoring of engine parameters. The software is created in the form of a monitoring toolbox and illustrates the concepts which could form the basis of any future on-line diesel engine health monitoring facility