Air management in a diesel engine using fuzzy control techniques

  • Authors:
  • S. García-Nieto;J. Salcedo;M. Martínez;D. Laurí

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera S/N, 46022 Valencia, Spain;Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera S/N, 46022 Valencia, Spain;Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera S/N, 46022 Valencia, Spain;Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera S/N, 46022 Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Air management for diesel engines is a major challenge from the control point of view because of the highly nonlinear behavior of this system. For this reason, linear control techniques are unable to provide the required performance, and nonlinear controllers are used instead. This article discusses two fundamental steps when designing a control system. Firstly, a methodology to identify Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) structures using experimental data is proposed. Secondly, the design of a fuzzy controller in PDC structure (Parallel Distributed Compensation) is presented. The parameters of this controller are obtained from a LMI (Linear Matrix Inequalities) minimization problem.