The Application of Machine Learning Methods to Predict the Power Output of Internal Combustion Engines

Ruomiao Yang, Tianfang Xie and Zhentao Liu
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Ruomiao Yang: Power Machinery and Vehicular Engineering Institute, College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Tianfang Xie: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Zhentao Liu: Power Machinery and Vehicular Engineering Institute, College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 9, 1-16

Abstract: The indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) is a key parameter for measuring the power output of an internal combustion engine (ICE). This indicator can be used to locate the high efficiency regions of engines. Therefore, it makes sense to predict the IMEP based on the machine learning (ML) approaches. However, different ML models are applicable to different scenarios, so it is important to choose the right model for prediction. The objective of this paper was to compare three ML models’ (ANN, SVR, RF) predictive performance in forecasting IMEP indicator with the input parameters spark timing (ST), speed and load. A validated one-dimensional (1D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was employed to provide 756 sets of data for the training, validation, and testing of the model. The results indicated that the random forest (RF) model had the worst prediction performance, and support vector regression (SVR) had a slightly better prediction performance than the artificial neural network (ANN), at least for the investigations in this study. Overall, the ANN and SVR models showed good predictive performance for IMEP, as the coefficient of determination (R 2 ) was close to unity, and the root mean squared error (RMSE) was close to zero. Whereas the overall prediction results of the RF model are acceptable, the RF model does not learn well for some internal engine laws.

Keywords: spark-ignition engine; machine learning; artificial neural network; support vector regression; random forest; indicated mean effective pressure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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