Design, modeling, and control of a camless valve actuation system with internal feedback

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 527-539

  Gillella, Pradeep ^a   Sun, Zongxuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Camless engines; electrohydraulics; fully flexible valve actuation; motion control

Indexed keywords

CAMLESS ENGINE; CRITICAL DESIGN; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; DESIGN PROCEDURE; ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC VALVES; ELECTROHYDRAULICS; EXTERNAL CONTROL; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; FLEXIBLE ENGINES; INTERNAL FEEDBACK; MASS PRODUCTION; MODELING AND CONTROL; NON-LINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL; PHYSICAL DESIGN; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REAL TIME; SYSTEM COSTS; TWO-STATE; VALVE ACTUATION;

CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HYDRAULICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK; OPTIMIZATION; STATE FEEDBACK; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

DESIGN;

EID: 79955831637     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2045656     Document Type: Article

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