We present an industrial case study in automotive control of significant complexity: the new common rail fuel injection system for Diesel engines, currently under production by Magneti Marelli Powertrain. In this system, a flow–rate valve, introduced before the High Pressure (HP) pump, regulates the fuel flow that supplies the common rail according to the engine operating point. The standard ap...

The conventional powertrain for ultralight aviation consists of a fixed pitch propeller connected to an internal combustion engine (ICE). Since ICEs have limited thermal efficiency (<40%), new and more efficient powerplant configurations recently been proposed in the scientific literature by adopting hybrid electric solutions. Hybridization has additional benefit increased safety thanks redu...

Accurate electric vehicle (EV) powertrain modeling, simulation and validation is paramount for critical design control decisions in high performance designs. Described this paper a methodology the development of EV through on real-world system with detailed analysis results. Although powertrains software environments plays significant role EVs, validating these models systems an equally importa...

1 National Key Laboratory of Vehicle Transmission, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; [email protected] (Y.W.); [email protected] (Y.Z.) 2 Transmission System Section, Powertrain Department, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Motor Commercial Vehicle Technical Center, Shanghai 200432, China; [email protected] 3 The Forth Branch Company, Inner Mongolia First...

Large and complex embedded software applications are almost always integrated out of smaller, more tangible modules. This is especially true for software that goes in an automotive powertrain control system. In this paper we present new tools and techniques that are useful for doing this integration. The research presented here is an outcome of the DARPA-funded MoBIES program; an acronym that s...

Powertrain modeling provides invaluable insight during the architecture selection and component sizing powertrain design phases. A model-based design process from the initial design phase to the operational prototype phase includes a series of intermediary steps that are required to integrate the real-time and physical limitations of the control systems development prior to invehicle testing. S...