Automotive Engines [electronic resource] : Control, Estimation, Statistical Detection / by Alexander A. Stotsky.

I Idle Speed Control,Adaptive Flow Estimation and Spline -- Idle Speed Control with Estimation of Unmeasurable Disturbances -- Cylinder Flow Estimation -- Recursive Spline Interpolation Method -- II Engine Torque and Friction Estimation -- Engine Torque Estimation -- Engine Friction Estimation at Start -- Data-Driven Algorithms for Engine Friction Estimation -- III Engine Misfire and Cam Profile Switching -- Statistical Engine Misfire Detection -- The Cam Profile Switching State Detection Method -- IV Engine Knock -- Statistical Engine Knock Detection -- Statistical Engine Knock Control.

Increasing demands on the output performance, exhaust emissions, and fuel consumption necessitate the development of a new generation of automotive engine functionality. This monograph is written by a long year developmental automotive engineer and offers a wide coverage of automotive engine control and estimation problems and its solutions. It addresses idle speed control, cylinder flow estimation, engine torque and friction estimation, engine misfire and CAM profile switching diagnostics, as well as engine knock detection. The book provides a wide and well structured collection of tools and new techniques useful for automotive engine control and estimation problems such as input estimation, composite adaptation, threshold detection adaptation, real-time algorithms, as well as the very important statistical techniques. It demonstrates the statistical detection of engine problems such as misfire or knock events and how it can be used to build a new generation of robust engine functionality. This book will be useful for practising automotive engineers, black belts working in the automotive industry as well as for lecturers and students since it provides a wide coverage of engine control and estimation problems, detailed and well structured descriptions of useful techniques in automotive applications and future trends and challenges in engine functionality.