Automotive control has developed over the decades from an auxiliary te- nology to a key element without which the actual performances, emission, safety and consumption targets could not be met. Accordingly, automotive control has been increasing its authority and responsibility – at the price of complexity and di?cult tuning. The progressive evolution has been mainly ledby speci?capplicationsandshorttermtargets,withthe consequencethat automotive control is to a very large extent more heuristic than systematic. Product requirements are still increasing and new challenges are coming from potentially huge markets like India and China, and against this ba- ground there is wide consensus both in the industry and academia that the current state is not satisfactory. Model-based control could be an approach to improve performance while reducing development and tuning times and possibly costs. Model predictive control is a kind of model-based control design approach which has experienced a growing success since the middle of the 1980s for “slow” complex plants, in particular of the chemical and process industry. In the last decades, severaldevelopments haveallowedusing these methods also for “fast”systemsandthis hassupporteda growinginterestinitsusealsofor automotive applications, with several promising results reported. Still there is no consensus on whether model predictive control with its high requi- ments on model quality and on computational power is a sensible choice for automotive control.
Editors and Affiliations
Institute for Design and Control of Mechatronical Systems, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz
Luigi Re
Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Frank Allgöwer
Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università del Sannio in Benevento, Benevento
Luigi Glielmo
Departamento de Máquinas y Motores Térmicos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, (Spain)
Carlos Guardiola
Ford Research and Adv. Engineering, Ford Motor Company, Technical Leader, Powertrain Control R&A
Ilya Kolmanovsky
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Automotive Model Predictive Control
Book Subtitle: Models, Methods and Applications
Editors: Luigi Re, Frank Allgöwer, Luigi Glielmo, Carlos Guardiola, Ilya Kolmanovsky