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The control structure of gasoline engines follows by considering the main components, the main control tasks and a resulting control-oriented block diagram of direct injection (DI) gasoline engines (or spark-ignition (SI) engines) as described in the introduction chapter.

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Isermann, R. (2014). Control of Gasoline Engines. In: Engine Modeling and Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39934-3_7

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