Knocking combustion research is crucially important because it determines engine
durability, fuel consumption, and power density, as well as noise and emission performance …

Engine management systems (EMS) has become an essential component of a spark ignition
(SI) engine in order to achieve high performance; low fuel consumption and low exhaust …

The engine knock simulator is useful for the evaluation of the feedback knock controllers and
also the calibration of the feedforward control input without experiments in spark-ignition …

In this paper, a spark advance self-optimization strategy is presented for lean-burn operation
mode of spark-ignition (SI) engine which aims on-board combustion phase tuning to achieve …

In this article, a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) clustering-based method is proposed to
learn the optimal threshold of the knock intensity metric, which minimizes the probability of …

In this paper, the knock phenomenon is studied and characterized in the time-frequency
domain. From the analysis results, a new knock event definition is proposed, which …

The characterization of knock intensity distributions can provide useful insights into the
process and help to improve knock control system designs. In this paper, an extensive …

Knock control represents one of the most critical aspects to reach optimal thermal efficiency
in spark ignition engines, and its research is crucially important because it determines …

This work is focused on the development and validation of a spark advance controller,
based on a piston “damage” model and a predictive knock model. The algorithm represents …

Engine knock is among the most relevant limiting factors in the improvement of the operation
of spark-ignited engines. Due to an abnormal combustion inside the cylinder chamber, it can …