Input-output Data-driven Modeling and MIMO Predictive Control of an RCCI Engine Combustion

This study presents a data-driven identification method based on Kernelized Canonical Correlation Analysis (KCCA) approach to generate a state-space Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) dynamic representation for the RCCI engine combustion. An LPV model is used to estimate RCCI combustion phasing (CA50) and indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) based on fuel injection timing and quantity. The proposed data-driven method does not require prior knowledge of the plant model states and adjusts number of states to increase the accuracy of the identified state-space model. The results demonstrate that the proposed data-driven KCCA-LPV approach provides a dependable technique to establish a fast and reasonably accurate RCCI combustion model. The established model is then incorporated in a design of a constrained MIMO Model Predictive Controller (MPC) to track desired crank angle for 50% fuel burnt and IMEP at various engine conditions. The controller performance results demonstrate that the established data-driven constrained MPC combustion controller can follow desired CA50 and IMEP with less than 1.5 CAD and 37 kPa error, respectively. Copyright (C) 2021 The Authors.