Patents by Inventor Benedikt Alt

Benedikt Alt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11913399
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a fuel mass to be injected into an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine including an intake tract, at least one cylinder, and an exhaust tract. In the method, an air mass introduced into the internal combustion engine is ascertained and a fuel mass to be injected into the internal combustion engine is determined. An air-fuel ratio in the exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine is determined which is adjusted in time. Based on the time-adjusted air-fuel ratio and the calculated fuel mass to be injected, a first wall film fuel mass is calculated and the fuel mass to be injected is adjusted based on the first wall film fuel mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Benedikt Alt
  • Publication number: 20240044275
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing a particulate filter for an internal combustion engine using a particulate filter model. A plurality of input quantities is received, an expected pressure difference between the inlet and outlet of the particulate filter is determined for an intact particulate filter using the particulate filter model based on the received input parameters, at least one expected pressure difference between the inlet and the outlet of the particulate filter is determined for at least one failure of the particulate filter, a pressure difference between the inlet and the outlet of the particulate filter is measured, the measured pressure difference is compared with the expected pressure difference for the intact particulate filter and the at least one expected pressure difference for the at least one failure of the particulate filter, and at least one diagnostic value for an intact particulate filter or a defective particulate filter is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Benedikt Alt, Evgenij Pachomow, Thomas Baumann
  • Patent number: 11858511
    Abstract: A control system for a motor vehicle, for outputting a controlled variable, with the aid of which a directly controlled variable of a motor vehicle is adjustable via suitable control operations, in order to adapt the directly controlled variable to a reference variable of the control system. The control system includes a controller, which is configured to output a first output variable on the basis of the directly controlled variable of the motor vehicle, and on the basis of the reference variable of the control system. The control system further includes a predictive model, which may be trained to output a second output variable that reflects a deviation of a driving behavior of a driver of the motor vehicle from the first output variable of the controller. The controlled variable of the control system encompasses an addition of the first output variable and the second output variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Adrian Trachte, Benedikt Alt, Carolina Passenberg, Michael Herman, Michael Hilsch
  • Publication number: 20230323830
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a fuel mass to be injected into an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine including an intake tract, at least one cylinder, and an exhaust tract. In the method, an air mass introduced into the internal combustion engine is ascertained and a fuel mass to be injected into the internal combustion engine is determined. An air-fuel ratio in the exhaust tract of the internal combustion engine is determined which is adjusted in time. Based on the time-adjusted air-fuel ratio and the calculated fuel mass to be injected, a first wall film fuel mass is calculated and the fuel mass to be injected is adjusted based on the first wall film fuel mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Benedikt Alt
  • Patent number: 11760364
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for using machine learning to determine control parameters for a control system, in particular of a motor vehicle, in particular for controlling a driving operation of the motor vehicle. The method includes: providing a set of travel trajectories; deriving reward functions from the travel trajectories, using an inverse reinforcement learning method; deriving driver type-specific clusters based on the reward functions; determining control parameters for a particular driver type-specific cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Benedikt Alt, Michael Herman
  • Patent number: 11346268
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a particulate filter in an exhaust aftertreatment system of a combustion engine (200) with the following steps: set up (111, 116) a pressure difference model, which models a measured pressure difference (?p) which drops across the particulate filter (210) as a function (220) of a volume flow ({dot over (V)}) through the particulate filter (210) with an offset value (a0, C); measure (120) multiple measurement values (245) for the pressure difference (?p) at different volume flows ({dot over (V)}) and solve (130) the pressure difference model as a function of the pressure difference (?p), whereby the offset value (a0, C) is also determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Benedikt Alt, Fabian Straub, Thomas Baumann, Christoph Schweizer, Michael Drung, Oliver Krannich, Rainer Maier, Tobias Zolg
  • Publication number: 20210179118
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for using machine learning to determine control parameters for a control system, in particular of a motor vehicle, in particular for controlling a driving operation of the motor vehicle. The method includes: providing a set of travel trajectories; deriving reward functions from the travel trajectories, using an inverse reinforcement learning method; deriving driver type-specific clusters based on the reward functions; determining control parameters for a particular driver type-specific cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Benedikt Alt, Michael Herman
  • Publication number: 20210114593
    Abstract: A control system for a motor vehicle, for outputting a controlled variable, with the aid of which a directly controlled variable of a motor vehicle is adjustable via suitable control operations, in order to adapt the directly controlled variable to a reference variable of the control system. The control system includes a controller, which is configured to output a first output variable on the basis of the directly controlled variable of the motor vehicle, and on the basis of the reference variable of the control system. The control system further includes a predictive model, which may be trained to output a second output variable that reflects a deviation of a driving behavior of a driver of the motor vehicle from the first output variable of the controller. The controlled variable of the control system encompasses an addition of the first output variable and the second output variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Adrian Trachte, Benedikt Alt, Carolina Passenberg, Michael Herman, Michael Hilsch
  • Patent number: 10954868
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine having a camshaft phase adjuster, including: providing a nonlinear final control element model, which indicates via a functional relationship an angular velocity of a relative adjustment of the camshaft phase adjuster as a function of an actuator correcting variable for the control of the camshaft phase adjuster; carrying out a control based on a deviation between a predefined camshaft angle adjustment setpoint value, and a camshaft angle adjustment actual value, to obtain as a control output a setpoint positioning rate of the camshaft phase adjuster; calculating the actuator correcting variable as a function of the setpoint positioning rate using an inverted final control element model; applying a predefined correction variable to the actuator correcting variable; controlling the camshaft phase adjuster using the actuator correcting variable to which the correction variable has been applied, to operate the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benedikt Alt, Konrad Moser, Patrick Grau
  • Publication number: 20200355107
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a particulate filter in an exhaust aftertreatment system of a combustion engine (200) with the following steps: set up (111, 116) a pressure difference model, which models a measured pressure difference (?p) which drops across the particulate filter (210) as a function (220) of a volume flow ({dot over (V)}) through the particulate filter (210) with an offset value (a0, C); measure (120) multiple measurement values (245) for the pressure difference (?p) at different volume flows ({dot over (V)}) and solve (130) the pressure difference model as a function of the pressure difference (?p), whereby the offset value (a0, C) is also determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Alexandre Wagner, Benedikt Alt, Fabian Straub, Thomas Baumann, Christoph Schweizer, Michael Drung, Oliver Krannich, Rainer Maier, Tobias Zolg
  • Publication number: 20200173377
    Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine having a camshaft phase adjuster, including: providing a nonlinear final control element model, which indicates via a functional relationship an angular velocity of a relative adjustment of the camshaft phase adjuster as a function of an actuator correcting variable for the control of the camshaft phase adjuster; carrying out a control based on a deviation between a predefined camshaft angle adjustment setpoint value, and a camshaft angle adjustment actual value, to obtain as a control output a setpoint positioning rate of the camshaft phase adjuster; calculating the actuator correcting variable as a function of the setpoint positioning rate using an inverted final control element model; applying a predefined correction variable to the actuator correcting variable; controlling the camshaft phase adjuster using the actuator correcting variable to which the correction variable has been applied, to operate the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Benedikt Alt, Konrad Moser, Patrick Grau
  • Patent number: 10612460
    Abstract: A method for operating a supercharging device for an internal combustion engine, the supercharging device being supported as an exhaust gas-driven supercharging device by an electric motor-driven supercharger drive or being operated exclusively by the electric motor-driven supercharger drive, the electric motor-driven supercharger drive being operated as a function of a setpoint actuating torque, the setpoint actuating torque being determined as a function of a pilot control torque from a pilot control unit and a control actuating torque from a rotational speed control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benedikt Alt, Matthias Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20190145309
    Abstract: A method for operating a supercharging device for an internal combustion engine, the supercharging device being supported as an exhaust gas-driven supercharging device by an electric motor-driven supercharger drive or being operated exclusively by the electric motor-driven supercharger drive, the electric motor-driven supercharger drive being operated as a function of a setpoint actuating torque, the setpoint actuating torque being determined as a function of a pilot control torque from a pilot control unit and a control actuating torque from a rotational speed control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Benedikt Alt, Matthias Bitzer