Abstract: An engine control system includes a piston movement modeling module, a cylinder volume determination module, and a cylinder pressure estimation module. The piston movement modeling module models movement of a piston within a corresponding cylinder based on angular change of an engine crankshaft. The cylinder volume determination module determines a volume of the cylinder based on an angular position of the engine crankshaft and the modeled movement of the piston. The cylinder pressure estimation module estimates pressure in the cylinder based on the determined volume, an intake manifold absolute pressure (MAP), an intake valve timing, an exhaust valve timing, and an exhaust back pressure (EBP).
Abstract: An engine control unit having a one-time integration of a model predictive control template via a potentially long software process. Changes to the control structure may subsequently be made via a calibration dataset connected to the engine control unit without incurring the potentially long and laborious software process of implementing the template of other approaches in the related art.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 17, 2008
Date of Patent:
November 15, 2011
Assignee:
Honeywell International Inc.
Inventors:
Greg Stewart, Francesco Borrelli, Jaroslav Pekar
Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the performance of purifying an exhaust gas by suppressing the variation of the air-fuel ratio of an engine occurring when the rotation cycle of the engine is substantially synchronous with the drive cycle of a purging control valve, and to prevent misfiring caused by a lean air-fuel mixture.