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Engine control is the enabling technology for efficiency, performance, reliability, and cleanliness of modern vehicles for a wide variety of uses and users. It has also a paramount importance for many other engine applications like power plants. Engines are essentially chemical reactors, and the core task of engine control consists in preparing and starting the reaction (mixing the reactants and igniting the mixture) while the reaction itself is not controlled. The technical challenge derives from the combination of high complexity, wide range of conditions of use, performance requirements, significant time delays, and use of the constraints on the choice of components. In practice, engine control is to a large extent feed-forward control, feedback loops being used either for low-level control or for updating the feed-forward. Industrial engine control is based on very complex structures calibrated experimentally, but there is a growing interest for model-based control with stronger feedback action, supported by the breakthrough of new computational and communication possibilities, as well as the introduction of new sensors.
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Re, L. (2014). Engine Control. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_269-1
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