Design of an Experimental Workbench for Testing of Control Approaches on a Spark Ignition Combustion Engine

The following document describes a design and a build-up of a workbench dedicated for implementation of different control approaches on a four-stroke spark ignition engine. It consists of a host PC, target hardware with high computational power able to execute real-time applications for control of a combustion engine and an engine itself. Aim of this activity is to have a fully programmable control system, which offers to a user implementation of different control approaches and algorithms. This allows to unstick from the standard look-up table control of todays' engines and implement into the control advanced predictive or robust algorithms. Result of this effort should be better control of engines with increased power and decreased fuel consumption and emissions of CO, CHx and NOx in exhaust gasses.