15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
AIR FUEL RATIO CONTROL IN LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS INJECTED SI ENGINES
Chris Manzie1, Harry Watson2, Marimuthu Palaniswami1
1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
2 Department of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3010

Despite being one of the fastest growing alternative fuel sources, little attention has been given to control of the air fuel ratio at the point of combustion in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) engines. In this paper a mean value engine model is presented for LPG throttle body injected engines. Based on this model, a control algorithm capable of adapting to errors in both the fuel and air systems is proposed to ensure accurate stoichiometric fuel injection control. Simulation results are presented to validate the proposed approach.
Keywords: Fuel injection, automotive control, adaptive control, radial basis function networks, recursive algorithms
Session slot T-Mo-A05: Modeling and Control of Automotive Exhaust-Gas After-Tre/Area code 8b : Automotive Control