Robert Boschgmbh

Helmut Janetzke

Chi-Thuan Cao

Alfred Schulz

Helmut Kauff

Ernst Wild

Wolfgang Krampe

Henning Cordes

Klaus Ries-Mueller

Werner Hess

Klemens Grieser

Werner Harter

Peter Dominke

Peter Ahner

Harald Michi

Andreas Erban

Peter Blessing

Ngoc-Thach Nguyen

Thorsten Allgeier

Herbert Lohner

Wolfgang Pfeiffer

Rudi Mayer

Gunter Braun

Bo Yuan

Elmar Dilger

Thomas Sauer

Vera Lehner

Peter Stoss

Herbert Stocker

Wolfgang Matuschek

Gunther Kossler

A steer-by-wire steering system comprised of an electronically regulated steering positioner mounted to the steering gear of the front axle or to both front wheels of a vehicle together with an electronic steering regulator and a feedback actuator. A sensor senses the driver's selected direction from the steering wheel. Road feedback can be relayed to the driver through a feedback actuator via the steering wheel. The loss of road feel caused by the absence of the steering column, which normally strongly influences the driver's directional wish, is recreated by the feedback actuator.

Steer-by-wire steering system for motorized vehicles

The invention is directed to a method for detecting combustion misfires in a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, the method comprising the steps of: determining the rough-running values for the engine individual to the cylinders; determining a quantity for the level of a subset of the rough-running values; forming a reference value by logically coupling the quantity with an offset; and, comparing the rough-running values to the reference value and evaluating a passthrough of the reference value as a misfire.

Method of detecting combustion misfires

The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for checking the operability of an actuator for the air supply and especially in combination with an idle control. By a retard shift of the ignition time point, the operability of the actuator is determined when the engine speed remains essentially constant and the engine load increases.

Method and arrangement for checking the operation of an actuator in a

Method and arrangement for the open-loop and/or close-loop control of an

Method and apparatus for adapting the characteristic of an idling

Process and device for influencing the air feed in an

The invention is directed to a control system for an internal combustion engine with reference to air throughput, rotational speed and lambda. In this control system, a decoupling device is provided between open loop and closed loop control signals which act with different speeds. An ignition signal is influenced in dependence upon a lambda-dependent signal via at least one dead time member. In this way, phases having unfavorable opposing influence on control branches of different reaction durations are reduced.

Control system for an internal combustion engine

Wheel speed (V.sub.R) and braking pressure (P.sub.B) applied to a wheel are continuously measured and utilized to estimated values from a mathematical system model, to obtain the physical values: coefficient of friction (.mu.), vehicle speed (V.sub.F), slope of a slip curve (d.mu./dS), slip (S), and coefficient of friction of a stationary-rotary brake couple structure. At least one of the physical values so obtained, and preferably the coefficient of friction (.mu.), vehicle speed, and slope of wheel slip curve are used to control braking pressure being applied to the wheel. Braking pressure can be controlled for example for braking in accordance with coefficient of friction and slope of the friction-slip curve, for example to operate the wheel just before the coefficient of friction drops as the wheel begins to slip. Spinning of a wheel can be avoided by controlling the braking pressure to be below slippage value.

Method to control the operation of wheels of a vehicle to prevent

The speed to be measured, either engine speed or vehicle (drive wheel) speed, is measured by a tachogenerator which trips a timer to provide a series of measurements. When the system is in use, a driver can store the actual speed at a selected moment as the desired speed. From a linearized model of vehicle speed or engine speed response to acceleration or deceleration of the engine by displacement of a control member, system parameters a.sub.1 and b.sub.1 are derived. The actual speed signal is multiplied by a.sub.1 and added algebraically (to produce a difference signal) to the desired speed signal, with the resulting signal then being multiplied by another constant derived from the system parameter b.sub.1 by reference to weighting factors p and q of a cost minimizing equation relating to the relative significance of obtaining a small control deviation and of limiting or increasing the amplitude of the control signal. An output signal is then provided by the second multiplying stage. The system can be constituted in an analog fashion or it may operate digitally by means of a microprocessor. Smoothing of the input and output signals may be provided by low-pass filtering in the analog case and by providing a moving average with the preceding value in the digital case. This type of regulation, which may be referred to as cyclic or as single-step control, assures an aperiodic run-in characteristic and is stable in all speed ranges.

Speed control for motor vehicles with microcomputer step-by-step control

A regulator for no-load speeds of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The regulator includes an input for the actual and desired rotary speed signals and an additional input for a signal corresponding to the load of the engine. The compound regulating signal at the output of the regulator is applied to adjusting means for the fuel mixture supply.

System for regulating rotary speed of an internal combustion engine

Disclosed is an electronic system for computing control magnitudes for a control system of an internal combustion engine. The control magnitudes are derived by computation from measured auxiliary parameters. The control magnitude such as suction pipe pressure is computed from its relationship with the flow rate of air mass, or throttle valve position and rotary speed. Atmospheric pressure is computed from the air mass flow, rotary speed and throttle valve position or from the cross-section of the channel by-passing the throttle valve and from the supplied air mass. The computation arrangement can be either analog or digital.

Electronic control system for an internal combustion engine

The invention is directed to a method and an apparatus of determining whether the rotational speed of an internal combustion engine is attributable to a corresponding correcting quantity signal from an idle air charge control or whether an overrun condition exists. For this purpose, a variable supplementary signal is superposed on the correcting quantity signal of the idle air charge control. The mean value of this supplementary signal may be preferably zero. Taking the dead time of the internal combustion engine into account, the measured rotational speeds are correlated with the changes in the previously issued correcting quantity signals, and it is determined whether the engine is in the overrun mode of operation or idling. If an overrun condition is detected, an overrun recognition signal may be issued to initiate measures aimed at preventing the internal combustion engine from stalling, for example.

Method and apparatus for determining the influence of different control

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Hemmingen, Germany

Helmut Janetzke