Transient Control of Gasoline Engines

About Akira OhataJiangyan ZhangJunichi KakoMingxin KangTielong ShenXiaohong Jiao

Tielong Shen earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from Sophia University Tokyo Japan. Since April 1992 he has been a faculty member and the chair of control engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Sophia University where he currently serves as a professor. Since 2005 he has also served as Luojia Xuezhe Chair Professor of Wuhan University China. His research interests include control theory and applications in mechanical systems powertrain and automotive systems. He has authored and coauthored numerous articles and books and serves as a member of the IEEE Technical Committee and IFAC Technical Committee on Automotive Control.Jiangyan Zhang received B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Yanshan University Qinhuangdao China in 2005 and 2008 respectively and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sophia University Tokyo Japan in 2011. From April 2011 to March 2013 she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at SHEN Laboratory of Sophia University and currently is an assistant professor with the College of Electromechanical and Information Engineering of Dalian Nationalities University China. Her research interests are mainly in nonlinear dynamical control theory and application to the automotive powertrain systems.Xiaohong Jiao earned her PhD in mechanical engineering from Sophia University Tokyo Japan in 2004. She is a professor with the Institute of Electrical Engineering Yanshan University Qinhuangdao China. Her current research interests include robust adaptive control of nonlinear systems and time-delay systems and applications to hybrid distributed generation systems and automotive powertrain.Mingxin Kang earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from Sophia University Tokyo Japan in 2015. For the past three years he has applied himself to the study of engine transient control and real-time optimization control theory. His main contributions include the transient control scheme development for the engine in-the-loop simulation system and nonlinear receding horizon optimal control for the gasoline engine control system. He currently serves as a postdoctoral research fellow at Sophia University. His current research interests include automotive energy optimization and nonlinear optimal control for the engine system.Junichi Kako received a B.E. degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology Japan. He joined Toyota Motor Corporation Japan in 1989. He worked on various aspects of automotive powertrain control. From 1989 to 1994 he was part of the team for the development of Laboratory Automation (LA) system Engineering Office Automation (EOD) system and embedded system of powertrain control. During 1995-2001 he focused on the engine control systems in Powertrain Management Engineering Division. In 2002 he was with Future Project Division in which he was responsible for the R&D of model-based engine control system. Currently he is developing engine control systems in the Advanced Engine Management System Development Division Toyota Motor Corporation.Akira Ohata graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1973 and directly joined Toyota Motor Corporation. He was involved in exhaust gas emission controls intake and exhaust system developments including variable intake systems hybrid vehicle control system vehicle controls Model-Based Development (MBD) and the education of advanced control theory at Toyota. He has the standardization activity in Object Management Group (OMG) assuring dependability of consumer devices. His current major interest is modeling that includes model simplification and the integration of physical and empirical models. He is a senior general manager of Toyota Motor Corporation a vice chair of IFAC TC7.1 (automotive control) a research fellow of Information Technology Agency (IPA) under the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry and the chair of technical committee on plant modeling of SICE (Society of Instrument and Control Engineers). He received the most outstanding paper award in convergence in 2004 and technical contribution award from JSAE.