• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.50-52
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• 2007

Throttle Control 장치는 차량의 지능화와 연료 절감의 이유로 기계식에서 전기적 신호의 연결로 구동시키는 시스템으로 발전하고 있다. 전기 전자 시스템을 도입한 ETC(Electronic Throttle Control)의 구성요소 중 필수적인 구동 원으로 DC모터를 많이 사용하고 있지만, DC모터는 정류작용 시 브러시의 스파크를 발생시키는 단점을 가진다. 이에 전기적 및 기계적 Noise가 적고 신뢰성이 높으며 수명이 긴 BLDC 모터의 개발이 필요하다. 이에 BLDC 모터의 기초 설계와 최적 설계를 통해 형상을 설계하고 이를 정자계 유한요소법을 이용하여 해석하고 목표 토크인 0.2[Nm]에 적합한 BLDC 모터를 설계하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.163-165
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• 2006

Electronic throttle control(ETC) is critical to drive ability, fuel economy and emission performance of present day passenger vehicles. Until now, many automobile engineer and company have been development electronic throttle controller and control algorism, such as adaptive control, sliding control, nonlinear and so on. But there are almost electronic throttle control using DC motor or stepping motor. This paper is the design of an electronic throttle controller and electronic throttle valve control using BLDC motor instead of DC motor.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.97-103
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• 2013

This paper describes the characteristics of Electronic Throttle Controller (ETC) module in BLDC motor without the hall sensor for detecting a rotor position. The proposed ETC control system, which is mainly consisted of a BLDC motor, a throttle plate, a return spring and reduction gear, has a position sensor with an analogue voltage output on the throttle valve instead of BLDC motor for detecting the rotor position. So the additional commutation information is necessarily needed to control the ETC module. For this, the estimation method is applied. In order to improve and obtain the high resolution for the position control, it is generally needed to change the gear ratio of the module or the electrical switching method etc. In this paper, the 3-phase switching between successive commutations is adapted instead of the 2-phase switching that is conventionally used. In addition, the position control with a variable PI gain is applied to improve a dynamic response during a transient period and reduce vibration at a stop in case of matching position reference. The mentioned method can be used to estimate the commutation state and operate the high-precision position control for the ETC module and the high response characteristics. The validity of the proposed method is examined through the experimental results.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.9-16
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• 2007

This paper describes the design and implementation of the fault diagnosis on the Electronic Throttle Control(ETC) System. The proposed fault diagnosis consists of an input signal, actuator and a processor diagnosis. The input signal diagnosis can detect the faults of the ETC system's input signals such as the position sensor fault, source voltage fault, load current fault, and desired position fault. The actuator diagnosis is able to detect the actuator fault due to the actuator aging and an obstacle which interfere in the movement of the actuator. The processor diagnosis detects the fault which prevents the microprocessor from operating the ETC software. In order to protect the breakdown of the ETC system and assure the driving safety, appropriate reactions are also proposed according to the detected faults. The safety and reliability of the ETC system can be improved by the proposed fault diagnosis.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.637-638
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• 2008

최근 하이브리드 전기자동차의 관심이 높아짐에 따라 전기적 신호의 연결로 구동 시스템을 구성하는 X-by-wire기술 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고, 있다. 그 중 Drive시스템을 관장하는 Throttle-by-Wire 기술의 일환으로 ETC(Electronic Throttle Control)장치에 대한 연구가 진해되고 있으며, 일부 제품이 출시되고 있다. ETC 구성요소 중 가장 핵심인 모터 설계를 위해 본 논문에서는 우수한 성능을 가지는 BLDC 모터를 선택하고, 기초 설계를 통해 그 형상을 설계하였으며, 보다 더 높은 효율과 출력 토크를 얻기 위해 회전자 영구자석의 재질과 형상을 변화시키며 효율과 출력 토크에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.113-119
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• 2005

The passenger car drivers want in general to feel good driveability, but they sometimes feel uncomfortable by shock and jerk phenomenon when they push or release acceleration pedal with clutch engaged. In this paper, the shock and jerk characteristics are studied on the vehicles of the throttle-by-wire system. With this system, the throttle is not directly controlled by drivers but via a microprocessor. So the control logic of the throttle is very important on tip-in and tip-out driveability. Experiments were carried out on two vehicles which show different control characteristics. The torque control logics were analyzed by measuring cylinder pressures. The results show that special torque control logic is needed at tip-in/out state for good driveability.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1248-1256
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• 2001

In this study, a test bed for vehicle longitudinal control is developed using a chassis dynamometer and real time 3-D graphics. The proposed test bed system consists of a chassis dynamometer on which test vehicle can run longitudinally, a video system that shows virtual driver view, and computers that control the test vehicle and realize the real time 3-D graphics. The purpose of the proposed system is to test vehicle longitudinal control and warning algorithms such as Adaptive Cruise Control(ACC), stop and go systems, and collision warning systems. For acceleration and deceleration situations which only need throttle movements, a vehicle longitudinal spacing control algorithm has been tested on the test bed. The spacing control algorithm has been designed based on sliding mode control and road grade estimation scheme which utilizes the vehicle engine torque map and gear shift information.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.1359-1366
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• 2010

Recently, many electronic control techniques for vehicles have been developed and applied. One of the technologies can be X-by-wire such as throttle-by-wire, brake-by-wire, steer-by-wire, and etc, in which most of mechanical parts are replaced into electrical wire and actuators. In this study, the effect of throttle-by-wire and brake-by-wire control systems on vehicle velocity control, especially in a school zone, are taken into consideration. The number of accidents reported in school zones is higher than that in other places. The reason for this is that many vehicle drivers do not obey speed limit regulations. Moreover, some of the students are careless while crossing the streets. Therefore, in this study, we attempt to develop a method using throttle-by-wire and brake-by-wire control systems for automatically reducing the vehicle speed such that it will be within the speed limit. First, an engine model and a transmission system model are developed for a specific vehicle model. Second, speed reduction is carried out such that the reduction follows a pre-designed cubic spline trajectory; the trajectory is determined such that rapid deceleration, which causes discomfort to the driver and passengers, can be prevented, for which a fuzzy-PID control algorithm is applied for the trajectory following control. Finally, simulation results are presented to verify the performance of the proposed speed reduction control system.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.379-387
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• 2011

Research and development of LP EGR system for the performance improvement and emission reduction on diesel engine is proceeding at a good pace. LP EGR system seems to be helpful method to further reduce$NO_x$ emissions while maintaining PM emissions at a low level because the boost pressure is unchanged while varying EGR rate. This study is experimentally conducted on a 2.0L common rail DI engine at the medium load condition (2000 rpm, BMEP 1.0 MPa, boost pressure 181.3 kPa) that difficult to use large amount of EGR gas because of deteriorations of performance and fuel consumption. And we investigated the characteristics of performance and fuel consumption while varying EGR systems. The overall results using LP EGR system equipped with ETC identified benefits on reduction of PM and improvement of fuel consumption and thermal efficiency while keep the $NO_x$ level compared to HP EGR and LP EGR with back pressure valve.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.68-77
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• 2013

This paper presents AUTOSAR-ready light software architecture (AUTOSAR-Lite), which is a light weighted version of the AUTOSAR, for automotive embedded control systems. The proposed AUTOSAR-Lite reduces overhead problems caused by the excessive standard specifications of AUTOSAR. Concurrently, AUTOSAR-Lite keeps advantages of AUTOSAR such as a scalability, re-usability, reliability, and transferability. The fundamental design of AUTOSAR-Lite is originated from the AUTOSAR standard. AUTOSAR-Lite is composed of three layers such as an application software, runtime environment, and basic software layer. The application software layer adopts component-based design methodology as AUTOSAR. The runtime environment layer integrates interfaces between application and basic software layers. In case of the basic software layer, restrictions of the module configurations and interfaces of basic software are minimized. In order to validate the feasibility of AUTOSAR-Lite, a software design result based on AUTOSAR-Lite software architecture for electronic throttle control (ETC) system is suggested.