Advanced Control
Methods: How Can they Advance
Powertrain Control?
Dr. Diana Yanakiev
Powertrain Control
Research and Advanced Engineering
Ford Motor Company
Abstract:
New
product development in the automotive industry faces ever increasing pressures
to reduce vehicle fuel consumption, tailpipe emissions, cost and time-to-market
in a global economic environment. In the area of powertrain, this translates to
introduction of new technologies as well as revisiting existing design
solutions, which in turn presents new tasks and challenges to powertrain
control.
In
this talk, the opportunities for advanced control design methods to serve as
enablers in the field of automotive powertrain control will be discussed, in
the framework of one of the all-time-favorite problems in the field: idle speed
control of a spark-ignition engine. The application of adaptive
"Posicast" control for time-delay systems, explicit Model Predictive
Control, and Speed-Gradient nonlinear control design approaches will be
presented. The appeal and suitability of these solutions for mainstream
production and the trade-offs dictated by a multitude of requirements will be
discussed as well.
Diana
Yanakiev completed her PhD and MS degrees in EE (control systems) at UCLA in
1997 and 1994 respectively. In 1989 she received a Diploma from the Technical
University of Sofia, Bulgaria. The topic of her graduate research was
longitudinal control of heavy-duty vehicles on automated highway systems. From
1997 to 2001, Dr. Yanakiev worked at Cummins Engine Company in the areas of
engine testing automation and diesel engine control. She joined Ford Motor
Company in 2001 and has worked on control of hybrid vehicles and spark-ignition
internal combustion engines.
Friday, February 1,
2008
3:30 – 4:30
p.m.
Rm. 1500 EECS