Title
Control of an electromechanical camless valve actuator
Abstract
This paper addresses the modeling analysis and soft seating control of an electromagnetic actuator used in electromechanical camless valve-trains. Our mathematical modeling analysis reveals the instability of the actuator dynamics linearized around the seating position and zero velocity. This implies that an open loop pulse shaping alone cannot render repeatable valve closing and seating motions. Closed loop feedback control is necessary to generate repeatable motions that is insensitive to disturbances. A linear model is constructed based on a gray-box approach that combines mathematical modeling and system identification. Notch filtering and linear quadratic optimal control are designed and experimentally tested. The control performance is evaluated in terms of the closing time, valve seating velocity and seating tail-length, armature crossing velocity and armature seating velocity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/ACC.2002.1024814
American Control Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002  
Keywords
DocType
Volume
linear quadratic control,optimal control,motion control,identification,valve closing,dynamics,automobiles,notch filtering,electromagnetic actuator,soft seating control,feedback,gray-box,electromechanical camless valve trains,mathematical modeling,internal combustion engines,stability,valves,closed loop systems,valve seating motion,electric actuators,automotive engines,system identification,feedback control,linear model,mathematical model,quadratic optimization,pulse shaping,open loop systems,gray box,electromagnetic modeling
Conference
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0743-1619
9
3.50
References 
Authors
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chun Tai12810.38
Tsu-Chin Tsao213537.12