Automotive Control Systems

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 emphasize 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 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.

About the Authors

A. Galip Ulsoy is the C. D. Mote, Jr Distinguished University Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he served as Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, founding Director of the Ground Robotics Reliability Center and founding Deputy Director of the Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (1979), his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University (1975) and his B.S. degree in Engineering from Swarthmore College (1973). He served as Technical Editor of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, President of the American Automatic Control Council - the US national member organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and Director of the Civil and Mechanical Systems Division at the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is the founding editor of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Magazine. Professor Ulsoy has made basic research contributions to the mechanics of axially moving elastic systems (such as translating bands and rotating shafts) and to control system design (such as adaptive control, state derivative feedback and time-delayed systems) as well as major research contributions to manufacturing systems (such as reconfigurable manufacturing, sawing, turning, milling, drilling, robotics and stamping), automotive systems (such as accessory drive belts, active suspensions and vehicle lateral control) and other engineering systems. He is co-author of three books and over 300 articles and is a co-inventor on three patents. Professor Ulsoy has received numerous awards including the 2008 Albert M. Sargent Progress Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the 2008 ASME Rufus T. Oldenburger Medal. He is a member of the U.S. National

Huei Peng is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also the Executive Director of Interdisciplinary and Professional Engineering Programs. His research interests include vehicle dynamics and control, electromechanical systems, optimal control, human driver modeling, vehicle active safety systems, control of hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, energy system design and control for mobile robots. He holds numerous awards and honors, including the Chang-Jiang Scholar Award, Tsinghua University; the Outstanding Achievement Award, ME Department, University of Michigan (2005); the Best Paper Award, 7th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (2004) and the CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (1998-2002) and he is a 2008 Fellow of the ASME. He has published more than 200 refereed technical articles in journals, conference proceedings and books. He is the co-editor of Advanced Automotive Technologies with J. S. Freeman and author of Control of Fuel Cell Power Systems: Principles, Modeling, Analysis and Feedback Design.

Melih Cakmakci is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bilkent University. His research areas include modeling, analysis and control of dynamic systems, control systems, smart mechatronics, modeling of manufacturing systems and their control, automotive control systems, optimal energy management algorithms and design and analysis of network control systems. Dr Cakmakci worked on the notes for this work while teaching at the University of Michigan and completing his PhD. Prior to joining Bilkent University, he worked at Ford Scientific Research Center as a senior engineer.