Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Mahle International Gmbh

Ford-werke Gmbh

Daniel Roettger

Christian Winge Vigild

Andreas Kuske

Frederik De Smet

Evangelos Karvounis

Michiel Jacques Van Nieuwstadt

Eric Matthew Kurtz

Franz Arnd Sommerhoff

Brien Lloyd Fulton

Yasser Mohamed Sayed Yacoub

Turgay Isik Aslandere

Alain Marie Roger Chevalier

Simon Petrovic

Wilbert Hemink

Thomas Alan Brewbaker

Aaron John Oakley

Leonhard Bartsch

Tobias Emig

Claus Maerschank

Charles Tumelaire

Eduardo Perez Guzman

Christoph Grewer

Joerg Kemmerling

Vanco Smiljanovski

Helmut Matthias Kindl

Diana D Brehob

Klemens Grieser

Michael Hopka

Hanno Friederichs

Jon Dixon

Frank Wunderlich

Frank Kraemer

Werner Willems

Matthew Allen Schneider

Michael Marbaix

Thomas Nitsche

Sven Alexander Kaiser

Monika Angst

David Joseph Dronzkowski

Johannes Kuenstler

Arno Bartsch

Juergen Stief

Thomas Proettel

Alain Chevalier

Eduardo Pérez Guzmán

Omer Kirbaci

Claudia Conée

A simulation includes loading a first generator of a Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN) with a model dataset during a training phase in order to train the first generator in cooperation with a first discriminator of the CycleGAN assigned to the first generator, and loading a second generator of the CycleGAN with a hardware dataset in order to train the second generator in cooperation with a second discriminator of the CycleGAN assigned to the second generator, and loading the first generator with an input dataset during an operational phase in order to provide an output dataset.

Method and system for carrying out a simulation

Methods and systems are provided for adjusting a vehicle powertrain. In one example, a vehicle powertrain is adjusted in response to an emission limit of an emission zone. Adjustments may be provided via a neural network wirelessly connected to a vehicle controller.

Drive through low-emission-zones: a connected system to reduce emissions

A method for predicting travel of a vehicle includes determining a prediction starting location and a plurality of prediction destinations including a plurality of possible intersections within a boundary at a predefined distance from the starting location. The method also includes determining, for each destination, at least one route to the destination, resulting in a plurality of routes at least one of which corresponds to each destination, including determining a statistical likelihood of the vehicle remaining on an intersection-exit that is along a potential route and selecting at least one route to each destination with the highest statistical likelihood. Responsive to the vehicle no longer being on a selected route, selecting at least one new route to the at least one destination.

Methods and apparatus for ascertaining a driving route for a motor vehicle

The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring emissions from a vehicle fleet consisting of a plurality of vehicles of a certain classification group. The method comprises the steps indicated in claimwith a) to e), as well as the further features listed there. With the method according to the disclosure, the emission emitted from a vehicle fleet can be reduced. Furthermore, by means of such an emission monitoring method more environmentally friendly and lower-emission vehicles can be developed.

Method for monitoring emissions from a vehicle fleet

A method for determining the engaged gear in a manual gearbox of a vehicle comprising a number of gears is described, wherein the vehicle comprises an engine, the manual gearbox, and at least one clutch. The method comprises the following steps: determination of the revolution rate of the engine as a function of time; differentiating the determined revolution rate of the engine against time; determination of the speed of the vehicle; and determination of the engaged gear based on characteristic curves of the revolution rate of the engine as a function of time for a number of the gears in the case of a fixed rate of engagement of the clutch, the revolution rate of the engine, the differential of the revolution rate of the engine against time and the speed of the vehicle.

Method for determining the engaged gear in a manual gearbox

An engine system is provided that includes a compressor including an inlet upstream of an impeller and a compressor housing, a flow-guiding device including a first partition extending across a valve housing, where the valve housing defines a boundary of an airflow duct, and a valve unit including an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve coupled to a junction point between an EGR conduit and a compressor inlet and including and a flap having a recess mating with the first partition and pivoting about a mounting interface adjacent to a leading edge of the flap, a valve housing coupled to the compressor housing, where during actuation of the EGR valve a relative position between the recess in the flap and the first partition is varied.

Boosted internal combustion engine with low-pressure exhaust-gas recirculation arrangement and pivotable flap

Methods and systems for operating an engine with an electrically driven compressor are described. In one example, output of the electrically driven compressor is adjusted to increase a temperature of an engine so that the engine may be started without glow plugs or with glow plugs that have a lower heat capacity output. Additionally, a position of a recirculation valve may be adjusted to increase the temperature of the engine.

System and method for starting an engine

An Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) Valve is disclosed including a housing having a first side configured to be coupled with a fresh air inlet, a second side configured to be coupled with an outlet, and an exhaust-gas inlet defined at a bottom of the housing. The housing may include one or more inner surfaces defining at least one path to direct a condensate, when present at any point on a bottom surface of an inside of the housing, to a low point within the housing directed by gravity. The outlet may be configured to be fluidically coupled with a turbo compressor.

Low-pressure EGR valve having a condensate line

A device for predicting an exhaust gas recirculation rate of an internal combustion engine, which comprises an inlet system and at least one exhaust gas recirculation valve, is described. The device comprises a sensor arranged in the inlet system for determining the composition of the gas, a sensor for determining the position of the exhaust gas recirculation valve, and an evaluation apparatus. The evaluation apparatus is configured to determine and output a prediction of the exhaust gas recirculation rate based on a corrected estimate of the exhaust gas recirculation rate, wherein the estimate is based on the position of the exhaust gas recirculation valve and is corrected based on the composition of the gas as determined using the sensor.

Device and method for predicting the exhaust gas recirculation rate

Embodiments for determining oxygen concentration using an oxygen sensor are provided. In one example, a method for determining oxygen concentration Oin a gas flow of an internal combustion engine which is equipped with an engine controller and an oxygen sensor comprises determining the oxygen concentration Oof the gas flow in a ceramic measurement cell of the sensor by current Iwhich is detected by measurement and which flows when a constant voltage Uis applied and maintained, and correcting the oxygen concentration based on a pressure pat the measurement cell. In this way, the measured oxygen concentration may be corrected based on the pressure of the air at the sensor.

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Embodiments are provided herein for controlling a motor-vehicle internal combustion engine fitted with a fuel injection system and an exhaust gas recirculation system. In one example, in a deceleration phase a closed exhaust gas recirculation circuit is formed, a mass (m) of an air quantity enclosed therein is determined, a first oxygen content (O, O) of the air quantity is detected, a test injection is carried out with an injection valve, a second oxygen content (O, O) of the air quantity is detected, and the fuel mass (m) injected in the test injection is determined from the mass (m) of the air quantity and the first and the second oxygen content (O, O, O, O). The disclosure also relates to a corresponding device for controlling a motor-vehicle internal combustion engine fitted with a fuel injection system and an exhaust gas recirculation system.

Method and device for controlling a motor-vehicle internal combustion engine fitted with a fuel injection system and an exhaust gas recirculation system

A method for adjusting an actual value of a quantity of fuel injected into an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle to a target value is provided, wherein a deviation of the actual quantity of fuel injected from the target value is determined based on a ratio of the component of the combusted quantity of gas in the induction system to the concentration of oxides of nitrogen in the exhaust system and the injected quantity of fuel is readjusted according to the deviation. Furthermore, an arrangement for carrying out the method is provided.

Correction of an injected quantity of fuel

Methods and systems are provided for detecting ammonia slip from a catalytic converter. In one example, a method may include recirculating exhaust gas containing ammonia and measuring only a NOconcentration of the recirculated exhaust gas following its combustion.

Ammonia slip detection

Methods and systems are provided for monitoring and adapting sensors and actuators in the induction system and exhaust system of an internal combustion engine during a period of time in which fresh air is flowing through the internal combustion engine without fuel delivery. According to the disclosure, the period of time in which fresh air is flowing through the internal combustion engine when fuel delivery is turned off and the monitoring and adapting is being carried out is extended by transferring torque produced by electric motor to the internal combustion engine.

Methods and systems for adjusting sensors and actuators during engine fuel-off conditions

A method for operating an engine having a cylinder, an intake line for supplying charge air to the cylinder, and a device for controlling charge-air flows conducted via a charge-air cooler and via a bypass line around the charge-air cooler, comprises controlling the charge-air flows using the device, the device including a two-stage switchable shut-off element and a continuously adjustable shut-off element, wherein the two-stage switchable shut-off element, which is arranged parallel to the bypass line in the, is switched between only an open position and a closed position, and the bypass line is opened up or shut off to a greater or lesser extent by the shut-off element which is continuously adjustable between an open position and a closed position. In this way, shuddering of the engine during shut down is prevented.

Method for operating an internal combustion engine with charge-air cooler

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