Adaptive air fuel ratio control for internal combustion engines

This paper treats the control of engine air-to-fuel ratio from the perspective of adaptive control of time-delay systems. High accuracy of engine air-to-fuel ratio control is required to meet stringent emissions regulations. Two adaptive controller designs are considered. The first design is based on feed-forward adaptation while the second design is based on both feedback and feedforward adaptation incorporating the developed adaptive posicast controller. The two adaptive designs are compared with the baseline controller using simulations and vehicle experiments.