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C. Westermayer, R. Priesner, M. Kozek, R. Bauer:
"High Dynamic Torque Control for Industrial Engine Test Beds";
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 60 (2013), 9; 3877 - 3888.

In this paper an approach for high dynamic torque
control of an industrial engine test bed is proposed. The main
goal is to develop a control concept that is capable of periodic
reference tracking at high control bandwidth while at the same
time sufficiently rejecting disturbances coming from external
excitations. For that reason model predictive control is utilized
which offers two major benefits as compared to classical controllers.
On the one hand its capability to explicitly consider
constraints can be applied to limitations of the actuating variable
on the test bed. On the other hand it can also be used to increase
control bandwidth by anticipating future reference trajectories.
For model predictive control an accurate test bed model is of
vital importance. Therefore, a system model is developed and
validated using measurements obtained from the engine test
bed. Moreover, a robustifying approach is proposed based on an
extended system model to overcome hardly observable, weakly
damped engine block suspension dynamics which are difficult to
model. The proposed control concept is discussed and validated
through simulations as well as through experimental results.

model predictive control, test bed control, inequality constraints

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2012.2206338