MPhil / PhD Project



MPhil / PhD Project

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|Supervisor(s) |Dr A T Shenton |Suitable for |PhD |

| | |(MPhil, MPhil/PhD, PhD) | |

|Project Title |Automotive Engine and Driveline Control by Controller Area Network (CAN) Systems with Add2 Ltd. |

|Project Description |

|The latest engine management systems (EMSs) use computer area network technology. Automotive manufacturers are exploring the limits of what |

|can be done with this technology, especially to allow more powerful ways of controlling the more complex new technology engines such as |

|Gasoline-Direct Injection engines. This project, which will be a cooperative project, with the leading automotive electronics company Add2 |

|Ltd, is develop a design approach to engine and driveline control systems using CAN technology with a view to |

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|Establishing a time efficient generic engine calibration process |

|Developing tools to design feedback and feedforward controllers for implementation in CAN hardware software configurations |

|Determining optimum control software structures for future system specification |

|Extending the performance beyond existing non CAN controllers |

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|This proposal is develop a systematic automotive control method, which is generally applicable across a range of different engine types. A |

|particular issue that will be addressed is the robustness of controls to time delays caused by overloading of the network. New nonparameteric|

|identification techniques will be used to characterise the engine or driveline dynamics and new nonparameteric robust control techniques will|

|be used in the controller design methodology. |

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|Applicants should have an interest in developing their computer hardware and software skills and should have an interest in control theory. |

|The project will involve extensive use of Matlab/Simulink Real-Time-Workshop and dSPACE control systems. The skill sets that will be acquired|

|during the project are currently in shortage and in great demand in industry. |

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|The project will use the existing Liverpool Engine-Dynamometer and Chassis-Dynamometer facilities in the Liverpool Powertrain Control |

|Laboratory. |

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|For more details about the Powertrain Control Laboratory see: |

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|Funding |

|Source | |Secured? (yes/no) | |

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|Request for support by Departmental EPSRC funds? (yes/ no) | |

|Candidate: special qualities/background required (e.g. 1st degree must include fluids) |

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