iterative learning control.pdf

Control Engineering Practice 19 (2011) 1490–1505 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Control Engineering Practice journal homepage: /locate/conengprac Iterative learning control of a fully flexible valve actuation system for non-throttled engine load control Adam Heinzen, Pradeep Gillella, Zongxuan Sun 111 Church St SE, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper presents the application of a fully flexible valve actuation system for non-throttled load Received 4 April 2011 control of an internal combustion engine. A novel camless valve actuation system with a unique hydro- Accepted 27 August 2011 mechanical internal feedback mechanism which simplifies the external control design is first intro- Available online 14 September 2011 duced. All the critical parameters describing the engine valve event, i.e., lift, timing, duration and seating Keywords: velocity, can be continuously varied by controlling the triggering timings of three two-state valves. Camless valve actuation Initial testing of a prototype experimental setup reveals that the performance of the system (transient Iterative learning control tracking and steady-state variability) is influenced purely by the state of the system when the internal Non-throttled load control feedback mechanism is activated.