Automotive Control Systems

This textbook introduces advanced control systems for vehicles, including advanced automotive concepts and the next generation of vehicles for ITS.

A. Galip Ulsoy (Author), Huei Peng (Author), Melih Çakmakci (Author)

9781107686045, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 April 2014

408 pages, 221 b/w illus. 18 tables 64 exercises
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.71 kg

This engineering textbook is designed to introduce advanced control systems for vehicles, including advanced automotive concepts and the next generation of vehicles for ITS. For each automotive control problem considered, the authors emphasise the physics and underlying principles behind the control system concept and design. This is an exciting and rapidly developing field for which many articles and reports exist but no modern unifying text. An extensive list of references is provided at the end of each chapter for all the topics covered. It is currently the only textbook, including problems and examples, that covers and integrates the topics of automotive powertrain control, vehicle control, and intelligent transportation systems. The emphasis is on fundamental concepts and methods for automotive control systems, rather than the rapidly changing specific technologies. Many of the text examples, as well as the end-of-chapter problems, require the use of MATLAB and/or SIMULINK.

Preface
Part I. Introduction and Background: 1. Introduction
2. Automotive control system design process
3. Review of engine modeling
4. Review of vehicle dynamics
5. Human factors and driver modeling
Part II. Powertrain Control Systems: 6. Air-to-fuel ratio control
7. Control of spark timing
8. Idle speed control
9. Transmission control
10. Control of hybrid vehicles
11. Modeling and control of fuel cells for vehicles
Part III. Vehicle Control Systems: 12. Cruise and headway control
13. Antilock brake systems and traction control
14. Vehicle stability control
15. Four wheel steering
16. Active suspensions
Part IV. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): 17. Overview of ITS
18. Preventing collisions
19. Automated highway systems (AHS) and platooning
20. Lateral active safety systems and automated steering
Appendix A. Review of control theory fundamentals
Appendix B. Two-mass three DOF vehicle lateral/yaw/roll model.

Subject Areas: Computer science [UY], Automotive technology & trades [TRC], Automatic control engineering [TJFM], Technology, engineering, agriculture [T], Optimization [PBU]