| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Overall demands | p. 1 |
| Historic remark | p. 1 |
| Perspectives | p. 2 |
| Thermodynamic Engine Cycles | p. 3 |
| Ideal Combustion Engines | p. 3 |
| Spark-ignited (SI) Engine | p. 3 |
| Diesel Engine | p. 6 |
| Seiliger Process | p. 8 |
| Comparison of Different Engine Concepts | p. 10 |
| Alternative Combustion Engines | p. 13 |
| Gas Turbine | p. 13 |
| Stirling Engine | p. 18 |
| Steam Engine | p. 20 |
| Potential of Different Fuels and Propulsion Systems | p. 23 |
| Engine Management Systems | p. 25 |
| Basic Engine Operation | p. 25 |
| Effective Work | p. 25 |
| Air-Fuel Ratio | p. 29 |
| Engine Concepts | p. 31 |
| Inflammation of Air-Fuel Mixtures | p. 33 |
| Flame Propagation | p. 34 |
| Energy Conversion | p. 35 |
| Fuel Control | p. 38 |
| Emissions of Internal Combustion Engines | p. 38 |
| Fuel Measurement | p. 40 |
| Intermittent Fuel Injection | p. 42 |
| Injection Time Calculation | p. 44 |
| Air Mass per Combustion Cycle | p. 45 |
| Intake Manifold Dynamics | p. 47 |
| Compensation of Wall Wetting | p. 50 |
| Ignition Control in SI Engines | p. 52 |
| Ignition Angle Control | p. 52 |
| Optimisation of Engine Maps | p. 54 |
| Ignition Power Amplifier | p. 59 |
| Dwell Angle Control | p. 64 |
| Ignition Angle Errors in Transients | p. 65 |
| Engine Control Systems | p. 69 |
| Lambda Control | p. 69 |
| Stochiometric Operation of SI Engines | p. 69 |
| Oxygen Sensor | p. 73 |
| Engine Model for Lambda Control | p. 76 |
| Lambda Control Circuit | p. 78 |
| Measurement Results | p. 81 |
| Adaptive Lambda Control | p. 82 |
| Idle Speed Control | p. 89 |
| Energy Conversion Model and Torque Balance | p. 91 |
| State Space Control | p. 93 |
| Measurement Results | p. 96 |
| Knock Control | p. 98 |
| Knocking at SI Engines | p. 98 |
| Knock Sensors | p. 101 |
| Signal Processing | p. 105 |
| Knock Control | p. 106 |
| Adaptive Knock Control | p. 107 |
| Combustion Torque Estimation | p. 110 |
| Crankshaft Moment of Inertia | p. 110 |
| Crankshaft Torque Balance | p. 115 |
| Transformation into Linear System Representation | p. 115 |
| Kalman Filter Design | p. 117 |
| Results | p. 118 |
| Cylinder Balancing | p. 119 |
| Residues at Stationary Engine Operation | p. 120 |
| Residues at Engine Transients | p. 121 |
| Adaptation of Injection Map | p. 124 |
| Driveline Control | p. 127 |
| Driveline Modeling | p. 127 |
| Basic Driveline Equations | p. 127 |
| An Illustrative Modeling Example | p. 131 |
| Modeling of Neutral Gear | p. 153 |
| Stationary Gear-Shift Experiments | p. 153 |
| Dynamical Gear-Shift Experiments | p. 154 |
| A Decoupled Model | p. 156 |
| Driveline Control | p. 158 |
| Background | p. 159 |
| Field Trials for Problem Demonstration | p. 160 |
| Goals of Driveline Control | p. 163 |
| Comment on Architectures for Driveline Control | p. 164 |
| State-Space Formulation | p. 165 |
| Controller Formulation | p. 167 |
| Some Feedback Properties | p. 168 |
| Driveline Control with LQG/LTR | p. 170 |
| Driveline Speed Control | p. 176 |
| RQV Control | p. 177 |
| Problem Formulation | p. 178 |
| Speed Control with Active Damping and RQV Behavior | p. 181 |
| Influence from Sensor Location | p. 185 |
| Simulations | p. 191 |
| Speed Controller Experiments | p. 194 |
| Summary | p. 195 |
| Driveline Control for Gear-Shifting | p. 197 |
| Internal Driveline Torque | p. 197 |
| Transmission-Torque Control Criterion | p. 203 |
| Transmission-Torque Control Design | p. 208 |
| Influence from Sensor Location | p. 210 |
| Simulations | p. 214 |
| Gear-Shift Controller Experiments | p. 217 |
| Vehicle Modelling | p. 223 |
| Introduction | p. 223 |
| Co-ordinate Systems | p. 224 |
| Wheel Model | p. 226 |
| Wheel Ground Contact Point Velocities | p. 226 |
| Wheel Slip and Tire Side Slip Angle | p. 235 |
| Friction Co-efficient Calculation | p. 241 |
| Calculation of Friction Forces | p. 244 |
| Tire Characteristics | p. 246 |
| Definition of the Wheel Radius | p. 249 |
| The Complete Vehicle Model | p. 250 |
| Chassis Translatory Motion | p. 250 |
| Chassis Rotational Motion | p. 255 |
| Suspension | p. 255 |
| Reduced Nonlinear Two-track Model | p. 260 |
| Vehicle Stability Analysis | p. 265 |
| Validation of the Vehicle Model | p. 268 |
| Validation Procedure | p. 268 |
| Validation Results | p. 270 |
| Vehicle Parameters and States | p. 273 |
| Vehicle Velocity Estimation | p. 273 |
| Sensor Data Pre-processing | p. 273 |
| Kalman Filter Approach | p. 274 |
| Short Introduction to Fuzzy Logic | p. 276 |
| Fuzzy Estimator | p. 277 |
| Results of Velocity Estimators | p. 282 |
| Identification of Vehicle Parameters | p. 283 |
| Friction Characteristics | p. 283 |
| Mass Moments of Inertia | p. 289 |
| Road Gradient | p. 296 |
| Shock Absorber Characteristics | p. 297 |
| Vehicle Body Side Slip Angle Observer | p. 299 |
| Basic Theory of a Nonlinear Observer | p. 299 |
| Observer Design | p. 301 |
| Approximation of other Vehicle Parameters | p. 305 |
| Calculation of Wheel Ground Contact Forces | p. 306 |
| Adaptation of the Tire Side Slip Constants | p. 308 |
| Approximation of Pitch and Roll Angles | p. 310 |
| Approximation of Vehicle Mass | p. 311 |
| Vehicle Control Systems | p. 315 |
| ABS Control Systems | p. 315 |
| Torque Balance at wheel-road contact | p. 315 |
| Control Cycles of the ABS System | p. 316 |
| Control of the Yaw Dynamics | p. 318 |
| Derivation of Simplified Control Law | p. 319 |
| Derivation of Reference Values | p. 322 |
| Road and Driver Models | p. 327 |
| Road Model | p. 327 |
| Requirements of the Road Model | p. 327 |
| Definition of the Course Path | p. 328 |
| Road Surfaces and Wind Strength | p. 331 |
| PID Driver Model | p. 332 |
| Hybrid Driver Model | p. 334 |
| Vehicle Control Tasks | p. 334 |
| Characteristics of the Human as a Controller | p. 336 |
| Information Handling | p. 339 |
| Complete Driver Model | p. 342 |
| Model of Human Information Acquisition | p. 343 |
| Inter-event Arrival and Service Times | p. 345 |
| Reference Value Calculation | p. 348 |
| Longitudinal and Lateral Control | p. 353 |
| Appendix | p. 367 |
| Introduction to Thermodynamics | p. 367 |
| First Thermodynamic Law | p. 367 |
| Specific Heat Constant | p. 371 |
| State Changes of Ideal Gases | p. 373 |
| Thermodynamic Cycles | p. 379 |
| Jacobian Matrices/ Nonlinear Two-track Model | p. 384 |
| Design of GPC Controllers | p. 388 |
| The Process Model | p. 388 |
| Recursion of the Diophantine Equation | p. 389 |
| The Control Law | p. 391 |
| Choice of the Controller Parameters | p. 391 |
| Driver Model: Constants and Weighting Factors | p. 392 |
| Least Squares Parameter Estimation | p. 392 |
| Parameter Estimation Via the Least Squares Method | p. 393 |
| Parameter Estimation Using Recursive Least Squares | p. 394 |
| Discrete Root Filter Method in Covariant Form | p. 395 |
| Nomenclature | p. 397 |
| Mathematical Definitions | p. 397 |
| Physical variables | p. 398 |
| Abbreviations | p. 405 |
| Units | p. 405 |
| Bibliography | p. 407 |
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