AEC- Advanced Engine Controller
The Advanced Engine Controller is a new generation of "high level" engine controllers primarily intended for retro-fit on large bore gas engines.
It operates as a complement to the existing engine management system providing advanced control actions and logics and leaves the safety critical tasks to the existing engine management system. The AEC hard- and software platforms are built to enable high flexibility and thus easy customer adaptation.
A state of the art feature is that the AEC can host advanced HOERBIGER proprietary control strategies that help operators meet the ever increasing emission regulations and demand for more sophisticated on board diagnostics. Examples of such control strategies are Hyperlogic and Model Predictive Control (MPC). Hyperlogic is a combination of innovative and robust control and logic to form a high performing control system. MPC gives an improved control of engine transients. The engine dynamic is modeled using adaptive system identification. This makes it easy to apply to different engines. Through feed forward to the MPC the impact of a priori known process load disturbances can be minimized. In summary, the MPC minimizes engine emissions while keeping the speed at a constant preset value.
The AEC SW platform is based on a layered architecture on which customers can apply their own specific control algorithms if needed.