Abstract: A method for ascertaining functional parameters for a control unit and to a control unit in which the provided method is carried out. The control unit is provided for controlling a technical system wherein, in the method, at least one target variable on a system response is specified and a variation of the functional parameters is carried out, from a response received to the functional parameters, a valuation being carried out of the set functional parameters while taking into account the at least one specified target variable.

Abstract: A method for setting function parameters of a control unit for a motor vehicle, in which at least one target variable is predefined in a weighting characteristics map, the target variables representing a behavior of the motor vehicle, and an assignment to a model of optimum parameters being provided in the weighting characteristics map so that predefined target variables are assigned to a set of optimum parameters which are set as the function parameters.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining functional parameters for a control unit and to a control unit in which the provided method is carried out. The control unit is provided for controlling a technical system wherein, in the method, at least one target variable on a system response is specified and a variation of the functional parameters is carried out, from a response received to the functional parameters, a valuation being carried out of the set functional parameters while taking into account the at least one specified target variable.

Abstract: A method for the automatic production of map characteristic curve structures for regulating and/or controlling a system. A modeling approach being used for the acquisition of causal dependencies from which, based on measurement data, a map characteristic curve structure is derived. In order to achieve an optimal map characteristic curve structure, the modeling approach has a theoretical data model from which a theoretical model deviation is determined, at least one input quantity of the data model being supplied to a map structure producer for determining a map characteristic curve structure, and the determined map characteristic curve structure being parameterized using measurement data and the result of the parameterization being compared to the theoretical model deviation, and, if a result of the comparison exceeds a specified value, the result of the comparison being resupplied to the map structure producer for the adaptation of the map characteristic curve structure.

Abstract: A latent heat storage for an internal combustion engine is described having a crystallizable storage medium for storing heat while utilizing the enthalpy of a melting procedure. The storage medium has a state of supercooled molten mass at ambient temperature. Furthermore, the latent heat storage includes a crystallization nucleus provider for providing a crystallization nucleus in the storage medium, in order to trigger a crystallization of the storage medium to release stored heat in the state of supercooled molten mass. Additionally, an internal combustion engine is provided having such a latent heat storage and a method for temperature control of an internal combustion engine. In a first step of the method, a crystallized storage medium is melted in order to store heat while utilizing the enthalpy of the melting procedure. The storage medium then cools down at most to the ambient temperature and forms a supercooled molten mass in the process.