Robert Boschgmbh

Asmus Volkart

Christian Grosse

Peter Dominke

Torsten Bertram

Klaus Ries-Muller

Wolfgang Hermsen

Holger Bellmann

Jens-Olaf Mueller

Michael Schubert

Jurgen Forster

Sigrid Hafner

Albrecht Irion

Manfred Mezger

Werner Urban

Jost Brachert

Rolf Maier-Landgrebe

Wolfgang Kraemer

Andrea Lohmann

Rainer Frank

Rolf-Hermann Mergenthaler

Jens Fiedler

Wolfgang Wimmer

Reiner Folke

Gerd Reimann

A system for controlling the motion of a vehicle is suggested which includes several levels. In a first level, at least one component is provided for controlling the vehicle motion which, in a further level, includes, as a refinement, a component &ldquo;propulsion and brake&rdquo;. In a third refinement level, this component is structured at least into the components &ldquo;propulsion&rdquo;and &ldquo;brake system&rdquo;.

System for controlling the motion of a vehicle

Device and method which to control movement quantities representing the movement of the vehicle. The device contains first arrangement for detecting quantities representing the movement of the vehicle. The device has at least two control devices which implement, independently of one another, control actions to stabilize the vehicle with the help of suitable actuators on the basis of quantities detected with the help of the first arrangement. At least one of the control devices influences the steering of the vehicle. Furthermore, at least one of the control devices influences the brakes and/or the engine of the vehicle, and/or an additional control device influences the chassis actuators. In addition, the device has a second arrangement with which signals and/or quantities are determined on the basis of the quantities detected with the first arrangement and used to influence at least temporarily at least one of the minimum of two control devices, so that the vehicle is thereby stabilized. At least one of the minimum of two control devices implements control actions to stabilize the vehicle, without being influenced by the second arrangement until it is influenced by the signals and/or quantities determined with the help of the second arrangement.

Method and device for controlling motion parameters representing the movement of a motor vehicle motion quantity

The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for controlling a motor vehicle. Several components are arranged in a command hierarchy and the commands for the components flow only from a higher abstraction level into a lower abstraction level and from a higher hierarchial level into a lower hierarchial level. Each component has only one command generator. The components operator-controlled elements are arranged in the command hierarchy as low as possible.

Method and arrangement for controlling a vehicle

Device and method to monitor sensors in vehicles

A control system for a motor vehicle has several components for carrying out different tasks to control the vehicle. The data, which are necessary from the components, are acquired independently by the components either via data interrogation or via request relationships.

Hierarchy system for controlling a vehicle

A method and an arrangement for controlling a vehicle includes at least one source for at least one resource and at least one consumer which consumes the resource. At least one coordinator is provided which allocates the resource to the consumer in dependence upon the capacity of the source and the resource demand of the consumer.

The invention is directed to a method for detecting combustion misfires in an internal combustion engine having a crankshaft and a transducer wheel coupled to the crankshaft and a sensor. The combustion misfires are detected on the basis of a time-dependent trace of the rotational movement of the transducer wheel and the transducer wheel has predetermined segments which pass the sensor. In the method, a sensor is utilized to detect segment times in which the segments pass the sensor so that the sensor produces a sensor signal representing the segment times. The sensor signal is applied as an input signal to first and second lowpass filters mutually connected in parallel thereby obtaining first and second output signals which react with different speeds to changes in the input signal. The difference between the first and second output signals is formed and a measure is, in turn, formed for the changes of the difference. The measure is compared to a threshold value and a movement of the measure above the threshold value is evaluated as a misfire.

Method of detecting combustion misfires by evaluating RPM fluctuations

The invention is directed to a method for detecting combustion misfires in a multicylinder internal combustion engine. The method includes the steps of: detecting the time span ts(i) in which the crankshaft of the engine passes through a pregiven angular range (.phi.) for each ignition of the engine; computing a vector element Lut(i) for the rough running of the engine based on at least one detected time span ts(i) for each ignition (i) of the engine; forming a vector LUT(i) from at least two vector elements Lut(i), Lut(j) with the two vector elements Lut(i), Lut(j) being for each ignition (i); computing the spacing between the vector LUT(i) and at least one predetermined reference vector Rn and Ra; and, detecting a combustion misfire when the spacing satisfies a predetermined condition.

Method of detecting misfires in a multicylinder internal combustion

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