Robert Boschgmbh

Martin Knopp

Michael Fey

Alexandre Wagner

Frank Meier

Matthias Eckart

Joerg Frauhammer

Jens Oehlerking

Adrian Thomys

Tobias Hoffmann

Miroslav Bilac

A device and method for controlling an internal combustion engine having a catalytic converter. At least one actuating variable for the internal combustion engine is determined as a function of a system model of the catalytic converter and/or the internal combustion engine. The system model, a setpoint variable for the control and/or the actuating variable is adapted. Information about a modeled residual oxygen content in the exhaust gas downstream from the catalytic converter is determined using the system model. Information about an acquired residual oxygen content in the exhaust gas at the output of the catalytic converter is acquired. The information about the modeled residual oxygen content is compared with the information about the acquired residual oxygen content. A measure for an adaptation requirement is determined as a function of the result of the comparison.

Device and method for controlling an internal combustion engine having a catalytic converter

A method for operating an internal combustion engine which has an exhaust-gas system in which a first exhaust-gas purification component and a second exhaust-gas purification component are arranged, and which has an opening-in point via which secondary air can be injected into the exhaust-gas system. The method is distinguished by the fact that an outlet concentration of the at least one exhaust-gas constituent prevailing at an outlet of the first exhaust-gas purification component is calculated by means of an outlet emissions model, and that an inlet concentration of the at least one exhaust-gas constituent prevailing at an inlet of the second exhaust-gas purification component is determined in a manner dependent on the calculated outlet concentration, and that the internal combustion engine is operated in a manner dependent on the thus determined inlet concentration of the at least one exhaust-gas constituent.

Method and control unit for operating an internal combustion engine which has a first exhaust-gas purification component and a second exhaust-gas purification component

A motor vehicle includes at least one hydraulically actuatable wheel braking device and at least one electric drive motor. A method for operating the vehicle includes monitoring a driver behavior upon an emergency braking operation, and activating the hydraulic wheel braking device for generating a hydraulic emergency braking torque when an emergency braking operation is detected. When the emergency braking torque is detected, the drive motor is also operated as a generator in order to generate an additional electrical emergency braking torque.

Method and device for operating a motor vehicle, motor vehicle

A method for regulating filling an exhaust gas component (EGC) storage of a catalytic converter (CC) in the exhaust gas (EG) of an internal combustion engine. An actual fill level (AFL) of the EGC storage is ascertained using a first system model (FSM), to which signals of a first EG sensor projecting into the EG flow upstream from the CC and detecting a concentration of the EGC and a second EG sensor, downstream from the CC and exposed to the EG, are fed. A base lambda setpoint value for a first control loop (CL) is predefined by a second CL, which is adjusted to the AFL using the AFL ascertained using the FSM when the voltage of the second EG sensor indicates a breakthrough of rich/lean EG downstream from the CC and an excessively low/high AFL of the EGC storage. Also described is a control unit to perform the method.

Method for regulating a filling of an exhaust gas component storage of a catalytic converter in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine

A method for regulating a filling of an exhaust gas component reservoir of a catalytic converter in the exhaust of an internal combustion engine. An actual fill level of the exhaust gas component reservoir is ascertained using a first system model, and in which a baseline lambda setpoint for a first control loop is predefined by a second control loop in which an initial value for the baseline lambda setpoint is converted, by a second system model identical to the first system model, into a fictitious fill level; the fictitious fill level is compared with a setpoint for the fill level; and the baseline lambda setpoint is iteratively modified as a function of the comparison result. At the beginning of a coasting phase, the baseline lambda setpoint is calculated based on signals of sensors and control variables which relate to the delivery of air and/or fuel to combustion chambers.

Method and control unit for regulating a fill level of a reservoir of a catalytic converter for an exhaust gas component in coasting mode

A method is presented for regulating a filling of an exhaust gas component reservoir of a catalytic converter in the exhaust of an internal combustion engine. Using a first catalytic converter model, an actual fill level of the exhaust gas component reservoir is ascertained. An aging state of the catalytic converter is determined; and a set of model parameters of the first catalytic converter model is allocated to the aging state; the individual model parameters being ascertained by interpolation from basic values of model parameters, the basic values having been determined for at least two different aging states of a catalytic converter of identical design.

Method for regulating a filling of a reservoir of a catalytic converter for an exhaust gas component as a function of an aging of the catalytic converter

A method for controlling a filling level of an exhaust gas component accumulator of a catalytic converter in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine where an actual filling level of the accumulator is determined with a first catalytic converter model. The method includes forming a lambda setpoint is formed, wherein a predetermined target fill level is converted into a base lambda setpoint via a second system model reverse of the first catalytic converter model, a deviation of the actual fill level from the predetermined target fill level is determined and processed to a lambda setpoint correction value via a fill level control unit, a sum of the base lambda setpoint value and the lambda setpoint value correction value is formed, and said sum is used to form a correction value, with which fuel metering to at least one combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine is influenced.

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