Active control of future vehicles drivelines

The authors propose a pole placement control design to solve efficiently the problem of active control of longitudinal car oscillations. A simplified model including an approximation of the delay is derived from a nonlinear high order drive-train model. The controller is designed from a methodic choice of the closed loop poles location. It is then discretized using a time varying sampling period depending on the engine speed. The discrete controller is tested on the nonlinear drive-train model.