Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

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Jeffrey A Morgan

Jun-Mo Kang

David S Mathews

Julian R Verdejo

John V Bowman

Hejie Lin

Hoon Ki Lee

Byungho Lee

Tameem K Assaf

Nicholas John Kalweit

Ronald J Herrin

James R Reeder, Jr

A system according to the present disclosure includes a first crank angle module, a second crank angle module, and a spark control module. The first crank angle module determines a first crank angle of an engine at which a predetermined percentage of fuel in a first cylinder of the engine is combusted based on pressure in the first cylinder. The second crank angle module determines a relationship between the first crank angle and a second crank angle of the engine at which the predetermined percentage of fuel in a second cylinder of the engine is combusted based on pressure in the first cylinder and pressure in the second cylinder. The spark control module adjusts spark timing of the first cylinder based on the first crank angle, and adjusts spark timing of the second cylinder based on the relationship between the first and second crank angles.

System and method for estimating when a predetermined percentage of fuel is burned in a cylinder during an engine cycle using principal component analysis and for controlling spark timing of the cylinder based on the predetermined percentage

A method for controlling an internal combustion engine that includes sensing a characteristic of combustion in a cylinder of the engine, generating a combustion characteristic signal from the sensed characteristic, performing a principal component analysis on the combustion characteristic signal and a predetermined combustion characteristic trace to determine first mode coefficients for the combustion characteristic signal and the predetermined combustion characteristic trace, determining a difference between the first mode coefficient of the combustion characteristic signal and the first mode coefficient of the predetermined combustion characteristic trace, and controlling the internal combustion engine based upon the difference.

Method and system for controlling an internal combustion engine

A system for a vehicle includes a filtering module and an indicated work module. The filtering module generates engine speeds based on positions of teeth of a toothed wheel that rotates with a crankshaft and based on a crankshaft position signal generated by a crankshaft position sensor. The crankshaft position sensor generates the crankshaft position signal based on rotation of the toothed wheel. The indicated work module generates an indicated work for a combustion cycle of a cylinder of an engine based on squares of first and second ones of the engine speeds and outputs the indicated work.

Systems and methods for determining crankshaft position based indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP)

A system for an engine includes first, second, third, and fourth modules. The first module determines an expected response of crankshaft speed due to combustion within a cylinder of the engine. The second module determines a value based on the expected response and a measured response of crankshaft speed due to combustion within the cylinder of the engine. The third module estimates an indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) for the cylinder of the engine based on the value. The fourth module selectively adjusts an operating parameter of the engine based in the estimated IMEP.

System and method for estimating indicated mean effective pressure of cylinders in an engine

A method of detecting a misfire of an engine includes determining a range of sub-harmonic frequencies of one of a crankshaft sensor signal and an engine speed signal. The range of sub-harmonic frequencies is determined based on a fundamental frequency. The sub-harmonic frequencies are less than the fundamental frequency. Frequency content magnitudes are generated based on the range of the sub-harmonic frequencies and a Discrete Fourier Transform of at least one of the crankshaft sensor signal and an engine speed signal. An energy from velocity non-uniformity (EVN) signal is generated based on the frequency content magnitudes and the range of the sub-harmonic frequencies. The misfire is detected based on the EVN signal and a misfire threshold.

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Jeffrey A Morgan