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Abstract

A method to control a wastegate valve actuator by determining a NOx deadband with hysteresis for an engine controller is disclosed. This NOx deadband defines an outer band and an inner band. In this method, a NOx sensor keep sensing the NOx level in the exhaust gases and accordingly the engine controller sends commands to the wastegate valve actuator. At the NOx level less than inner band and the outer band, engine controller remains at deactivated state. When the NOx level goes outside the outer band, the engine controller sends dither command to the wastegate valve actuator and continues to send the dither command until the NOx level does not reach inside the NOx inner band. This method improves life of the wastegate valve assembly as separate activating and deactivating bands for the engine controller ensures less command fluctuations for the wastegate valve actuator.

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