A FIVE-PARAMETER ENGINE MAPPING TEST FACILITY

Part of the responsibilities of BL Technology is to investigate and develop advanced test facilities and techniques. A pair of engine test beds was installed at BL Technology's Gaydon Proving Ground during 1982/83 with the object of providing five-parameter mapping for car and light van petrol and diesel engines. The paper describes the control and instrumentation equipment with which the cells are equipped, and discusses the techniques used in acquiring and processing the data. The facilities depend fundamentally on computer-based control of the five parameters in conjunction with a Host system affording test sequence preparation and data processing and storage, together with communications interfacing. Particular advantages of these test beds are the speed with which a large quantity of data can be processed and presented in useful formats, and the accuracy of data.

Media Info

  • Features: Figures;
  • Pagination: p. 407-428

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00393108
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding, HS-037 234, HS-037 235
  • Files: HSL, USDOT
  • Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM