Challenges and solutions in automotive powertrain systems

Abstract

Automotive powertrain mainly consisting of combustion engine, motor and battery (i.e. special for hybrid powertrain) is a very complicated integration system, and the research on the automotive powertrain control techniques remains hot-spot in past decades. This paper proposes some challenging issues and control solutions of automotive powertrain system from the perspective of the dynamic system theory. The typical characteristics of automotive powertrain system are analysed for control development, and the several control applications using model-based and model-free control design are demonstrated with sufficient experimental validation. In addition, some open issues for future powertrain control development are summarised.

Keywords:

• Model-based control
• model-free control
• combustion engine
• automotive powertrain
• control technology

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Toyota Motor Corporation for their supports in this research.

Notes

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 61703179 and 61773090].