This paper presents the effects of introducing hydrogen with gasoline on the engine performance like power, torque and efficiency of spark ignition (SI) engine. Hydrogen is found to be one of the important energy substitutes of the future era. Hydrogen as a renewable energy source provides the potential for a sustainable development, particularly in the automotive and energy storing sector. Hyd...

The calibration of today’s spark ignition (SI) engine control systems is a complex and costintensive procedure. To cope with increasing demands in performance issues on the one hand and lowering costs on the other hand, a design procedure combining an approximate simulation model with a self tuning algorithm has been developed. In this paper a performance indices based self tuning method for SI...

In order to detect knock in spark ignition engines, usually structure-borne sound signals measured by acceleration sensors mounted on the engine housing are analyzed. Earlier investigations have shown that using linear, time variant filtered structure-borne sound signals as approximated pressure signal instead improves knock detection significantly. But this method is computationally too expens...

This paper presents a new method for on-board fault diagnosis for the air-path of spark ignition (SI) engines. The method uses an adaptive radial basis function (RBF) neural network to classify pre-defined possible faults from engine measurements to report the type and size of the fault. The RBF fault classifier adapts its widths and weights to model the time-varying dynamics of the engine and ...

This paper describes a cost-effective fuzzy control system applied to a small spark-ignition internal-combustion engine to achieve regulation of the fuel injection system. It determines the amount of fuel required from a fuzzy algorithm using engine speed and manifold air pressure as input values. The fuzzy control parameters were a collection of comprehensible rules and fuzzy-set membership fu...