Title : 
A robust automotive controller design
         
        
            Author : 
Loukianov, Alexander G. ; Dodds, Stephen J. ; Hosny, Wada ; Vittek, Jan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados, IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper describes an application of the block control and sliding mode control techniques to form a stabilising controller for an internal combustion engine with a throttle driven by a DC motor. This combined approach enables the inherent nonlinearities of the engine to be compensated and high level external disturbances to be rejected. Also, the control system utilises a generalised observer for nonlinear plants which incorporates a high gain technique.
         
        
            Keywords : 
DC motors; closed loop systems; compensation; control system synthesis; internal combustion engines; nonlinear control systems; observers; road vehicles; robust control; variable structure systems; DC motor; block control; closed loop system; compensation; generalised observer; high gain technique; high level external disturbances; internal combustion engine; nonlinear plants; nonlinearities; robust automotive controller design; sliding mode control; stabilising controller; throttle; Adaptive control; Automotive engineering; Electric variables control; Internal combustion engines; Observers; Robust control; Sliding mode control; State estimation; Vehicle dynamics; Velocity control;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Control Applications, 1997., Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Hartford, CT, USA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-3876-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CCA.1997.627760