Development and control of hybrid hardware engine simulator

In this paper a novel real-time engine simulator which is combined with partial mechanical hardware system and numerical simulator. In the hardware, the actual piston-clank mechanism is used, and the thrust force is generated by a liner motor. In the numerical simulator, admission and combustion dynamics are calculated, and the motion of the piston is realized by a kind of model matching or following controller. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the proposed simulator system, and explain the control systems.