ABSTRACT
The automotive industry has been confronted by serious social problems, global warming, air pollution, the energy crisis, and traffic safety. Control technologies have been continuously expanded to encounter these issues. That makes powertrain controls highly sophisticated and complex. Therefore, it has been becoming difficult to develop reliability within a reasonable time and with limited resources. In addition, the development period should be shortened to provide new technologies to the market immediately. From the above situation, collaboration between the academic society and the automotive industry has become important. However, the communication between both has been inefficient. It has not been easy for the academic society to know the requirements from the automotive industry. On the other hand, it has been difficult for the automotive industry to know what control technologies are applicable to their needs. Many universities in Japan have no engine test facility, and there has been no good engine model shared among researchers. The situation has prevented university involvement in the area. In order to change the situation, we provided some engine models and benchmark problems of control technologies. In this chapter, three benchmark problems are introduced.
