Automotive Control is a rapidly developing field for both researchers and industrial practitioners. The field itself is wide ranging and includes engine control, vehicle dynamics, on-board diagnosis and vehicle control issues in intelligent vehicle highway systems.Leading researchers and industrial practitioners were able to discuss and evaluate current developments and future research directions at the first international IFAC workshop on automotive control. This publication contains the papers covering a wide range of topics presented at the workshop.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC Workshop on Advances in Automotive Control, the theme of which was control of automotive systems. Eighty delegates participated in the Workshop, presenting a total of thirty-nine papers. Several technical demonstrations were available on-site. Two plenary lectures presented by industry experts opened each of the two full days of the Workshop, which was capped by a panel discussion with industry and university participants. These Proceedings comprise high quality technical papers on five distinct subjects: control of vehicle systems; control of intelligent transportation systems; control of hybrid-electric powertrains; powertrain modeling and estimation; and powertrain control.

This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the Third IFAC Workshop on ADVANCES IN AUTOMOTIVE CONTROL held in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 28-30 March 2001. As the subject indicates, the aim of this workshop was to discuss not only the latest advances related to motor vehicles, but also, and more generally, to exchange ideas between academic partners, car manufacturers and subcontractors. The plenary lectures are of great importance and the thematic sessions in the different sections are the essence of such workshops. However, the discussions between experts in the different fields, the meetings between people from industry, universities and public or private laboratories, as well as the resulting exchange of ideas, are as important. Research is often criticized for providing merely theoretical results and for the insufficient number of its applications. The motor vehicle industry offers a wide field of applications in which we can validate all techniques, tools and methods. This allows us to be involved in all the areas of fundamental research, in all the different possible approaches from fundamental research to technology transfer, and to observe the actual effects of our results. The increase in road traffic was a major problem of the last century. It is clear that one of the challenges of the XXIst century will be to improve driving safety and comfort. The sessions in the Proceedings volume are divided as follows: Driveline control, Driveline modelling, Vehicle dynamics (I and II), Electronic architecture, Intelligent components, Engine control (I and II), Engine modelling, Modelling of combustion and turbo-charging, Diagnostics and Subsystems. The quality of thepapers and the diversity of their origins clearly show the interest taken in this key sector of our research and industry.

This supplement to the VSD-Journal (2001) contains the full papers to lectures on vehicle system dynamics given at the world congress of IUTAM in Chicago in 2000. It thereby represents the advances in rail and automobile dynamics research.

Proceedings of the European Control Conference 1995, Rome, Italy 5-8 September 1995

These proceedings provide an authoritative source of information in the field of suspension design, vehicle-infrastructure interaction, mechatronics and vehicle control systems for road as well as rail vehicles. The research presented includes modelling and simulation.