Robert Boschgmbh

Thomas Bleile

Frank Meier

Alexandre Wagner

Wolfgang Kraemer

Peter Rupp

Michael Scheidt

Gerhard Engel

Manfred Birk

Horst Harndorf

Patrick Menold

Wilhelm Blumendeller

Slobodanka Lux

Dirk Foerstner

Naveen Ramakrishnan

Andreas Rupp

Horst Mueller

Guenter Veit

Christian Fleck

Benedikt Kraus

Rene Huck

Christina Hoepfner

Andreas Huber

Eduard Moser

Stefan Michael

Daniel Kuhn

Matthias Bitzer

Martin Brandt

Marc Ringeisen

Arvid Sievert

Martin Hoerner

Jochen Quante

Fabian Jarmolowitz

André Wittmer

Andras Montvay

Christina Stiller

Ralf Knitz

Engel Gerhard

Fabio Cecchi

Jeffrey L Irion

Ramon Wieland

Sascha Eichinger

Friedrun Heiber

Thomas Oertel

Ulrich Rosin

Christian Potthast

Kosmas Petridis

Miguel Granda

Lars Hagen

Julian Reichel

A method of continuously determining a measure of quality for a control device of a technical device or for a system model of a technical system, from an input variable and an output variable. Time series of the input variable and the output variable are acquired up to a time step. A discrete ARMAX model structure is adapted for the ascertained, corresponding time series of the input variable and output variable, in order to determine a first set of parameters for modeling the time series of the input variable and a second set of parameters for modeling the time series of the output variable. The measure of quality is determined for the time step as a function of the first and the second set of parameters.

Method and device for determining a measure of quality continuously

Methods and systems for hierarchy detection for block diagrams. One system includes an electronic processor configured to access a block diagram. The electronic processor is also configured to identify a set of connected components in the block diagram. The electronic processor is also configured to convert a first connected component included in the set of connected components into a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The electronic processor is also configured to determine a set of candidate hierarchies included in the DAG. The electronic processor is also configured to verify the set of candidate hierarchies. The electronic processor is also configured to generate a displayable hierarchical block diagram based on the verified set of candidate hierarchies.

Hierarchy detection for block diagrams

A method for parameterizing a functional software of a vehicle, including: receiving information about a vehicle state, transmitting the information about the vehicle state via a communication interface addressed to a remote processing unit outside the vehicle, and receiving, at the local processing unit in the vehicle, information about at least one parameter for influencing the vehicle behavior, which was transmitted by the remote processing unit outside the vehicle, via the communication interface.

Method and device for influencing a vehicle behavior

A method for diagnosing a malfunction of a sensor system in an air system of an internal combustion engine, said sensor system comprising a first air state sensor, a second air state sensor and a third air state sensor, wherein a first value and a second value of a first comparison variable are ascertained in two different ways in an overall calculation step such that the result of a comparison between the first value and the second value is a function of each of the output variables of the first, second and third air state sensors and wherein in a fault detection step, said method recognizes as a function of the comparison between said first value and said second value of the comparison variable that a fault exists in the sensor system.

Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine

A method for monitoring at least one part of an internal combustion engine based on a variable whose values characterize the operation of the part of the internal combustion engine during different states of the internal combustion engine, including: determining an actual pattern with the actual values of the variable during different states of the internal combustion engine which describe the actual operation of the internal combustion engine; providing a reference pattern for a known operation of the internal combustion engine, the reference pattern including reference values of the variable for different states of the internal combustion engine; and comparing the actual pattern to the reference pattern to determine a similarity between the actual operation and the known operation.

Error cause detection or narrowing down of errors with the aid of error patterns in the air system

A method for determining a modeling value of a physical variable in a gas guiding section of an engine system including an internal combustion engine, includes the following steps: operating the engine system in such a way that an air mass flow is present in the gas guiding section; determining instantaneous values of other physical variables; and determining the modeling value of the physical variable by solving a differential equation, which results as the discretization of a differential equation, with the aid of the previously ascertained instantaneous values of the other physical variables.

Method and device for ascertaining a modeling value for a physical variable in an engine system having an internal combustion engine

In a method for determining a low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow {dot over (m)}in the air system of an internal combustion engine () with low pressure exhaust gas recirculation, the determination of the low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow {dot over (m)}involves a preliminary low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow {dot over (m)}which is determined from a function involving, in particular, the pressure pupstream and the pressure pdownstream of a low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve EGRVIvLP (), the temperature Tdownstream of the low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve (), and the geometry arof the low pressure side exhaust gas recirculation valve (). According to the invention, at least one mass balance based variable is also considered in the determination of the low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow {dot over (m)}.

Method for determining the low pressure exhaust gas recirculation mass flow in the air system of an internal combustion engine

A method for operating a boost pressure control in an engine system having a supercharged internal combustion engine, including the following: performing a boost pressure control based on a setpoint controller variable and an actual controller variable, ascertaining a setpoint controller variable from a provided setpoint boost pressure with a first and a second model, ascertaining an intermediate variable from a provided actual boost pressure with the first model, correcting the intermediate variable with a provided dynamic variable, which represents a dynamic change in the state of the engine system using a higher dynamics than the actual boost pressure, and ascertaining the actual controller variable from the corrected intermediate variable with the second model.

Method and device for performing a control, in particular for use in a motor vehicle

A method for diagnosing a blowoff valve in an engine system having a supercharged internal combustion engine, the blowoff valve being situated in a blowoff line around a compressor of a supercharging device, by performing the following: detecting a compressor rotational speed indication of the supercharging device; and determining a malfunction of the blowoff valve if the compressor rotational speed indication includes an oscillation after the blowoff valve is activated for opening the blowoff valve.

Method and device for diagnosing a blowoff valve for a supercharging device of an internal combustion engine

A method for testing a supercharger actuator for a supercharger of a supercharged internal combustion engine, including adjusting the supercharger actuator from a first position to a second position, determining a rotational speed change information, which is a function of the change of the rotational speed of the supercharger resulting from the adjustment, and establishing a malfunction of the supercharger actuator as a function of the rotational speed change information.

Method and device for diagnosing an actuator for an exhaust-gas-driven supercharger

A method for diagnosing an actuator for a boost pressure system of an internal combustion engine, in which the actuator is controlled using a triggering signal, and a state variable of the boost pressure system which is at least an indirect function of the triggering signal is detected. The triggering signal is periodic, and a curve of the values of the state variable is analyzed with regard to at least one periodic characteristic.

Method for diagnosing an actuator for a boost pressure system of an internal combustion engine

A regulator unit for regulating a flap opening of a flap arranged in a mass flow line includes: an analyzer unit which is designed for providing an analysis signal on the basis of a predefined desired pressure difference and a difference between pressures upstream and downstream from the flap; a regulator which is designed for determining a trigger signal from the analysis signal according to a regulating characteristic; and a control element-regulating unit which is designed for regulating the flap opening of the flap in the mass flow line in response to the trigger signal.

Regulator unit and method for regulating a flap opening of a flap situated in a mass flow line

A method for determining at least one air system variable in an air supply system of an internal combustion engine in successive, discrete calculation steps, a differential equation being provided with respect to the air system variable based on measured and/or modeled variables, which describe conditions in the air supply system, a difference equation being formed for the quantization of the differential equation according to an implicit method, and the difference equation being solved in each discrete calculation step, in order to obtain the air system variable.

Method for real time capability simulation of an air system model of an internal combustion engine

In a method for operating an internal combustion engine having exhaust gas recirculation, air is supplied to at least one combustion chamber via an intake manifold at least partially closable with the aid of a final control element, and a part of the exhaust gases flowing into an exhaust pipe is conducted via an EGR channel, which is at least partially closable with the aid of an EGR valve unit, into an area of the intake manifold, which lies between the final control element and the combustion chamber. A first variable, which characterizes the mass flow of the gas conducted through the EGR channel, is ascertained from a set of state variables of the internal combustion engine, which apply for an operating state in which the engine is in overrun operation and the final control element is essentially closed.

Method for operating an internal combustion engine having exhaust gas recirculation

A method and a device are provided for regulating the charge pressure of an internal combustion engine having at least two exhaust gas turbochargers that set a target charge pressure rapidly and without overshooting. A first actuating element is provided with which the charge pressure of a first exhaust gas turbocharger is set, and a second actuating element is provided with which the charge pressure of a second exhaust gas turbocharger is set. Dependent on the exhaust gas back pressure prevailing in the exhaust gas channel at the output of the internal combustion engine, a first controlled variable is determined for the first actuating element, and a second controlled variable is determined for the second actuating element.

Method and device for regulating the charge pressure of an internal combustion engine

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