Abstract: A method for detecting a short circuit to ground or to the operating voltage of a signal line (11, 12) of a resolver (16) has the following steps:—measuring the potential of the signal lines (13a, 13b; 14a, 14b) of the receiver coil (18) with respect to ground at two sampling times (R and F) provided symmetrically at the middle of the excitation period;—calculating an offset value for a signal line pair (13a, 13b; 14a, 14b) by calculating the average value of the four measured values (UHR, ULR, UHF and ULF) for the associated receiver coil (17, 18); and—identifying a short circuit and the potential to which the short-circuited line is connected in that the offset value is compared to threshold values.

Abstract: A method for detecting an open line (10) of a receiver coil (17; 18) of a resolver (16) comprises—providing a pull-up resistor (R1; R3) and a pull-down resistor (R2; R4) at the terminals (7a, 7b; 8a, 8b) on a control device (1) for the signal lines (13a, 13b; 14a, 14b) of the receiver coil (17; 18);—measuring the voltage between the two signal line terminals (7a, 7b; 8a, 8b) of the receiver coil at two sampling times provided symmetrically at the middle of the excitation period;—calculating an offset value by calculating an average value that comprises the measured values measured at the two sampling times in an excitation period; and—identifying an open line (10) if the offset value exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: The invention provides a method, an apparatus and a system 1 for operating a rotating electric machine.

Abstract: A method for detecting a leak in an intake tract of an internal combustion engine involves operating the engine at two operating points and comparing a deviation of measured mass flows from expected mass flows at the first and at the second operating points.

Abstract: A method for detecting a leak in an intake tract of an internal combustion engine including the following steps: operating the internal combustion engine at a first operating point having a rotational speed and a first pressure difference between the ambient pressure and the pressure in the intake tract of the internal combustion engine; computing a first expected mass flow into the intake tract; measuring a first mass flow into the intake tract and computing a difference between the measured first mass flow and the first expected mass flow; operating the internal combustion engine at a second operating point having the same rotational speed and a second pressure difference between the ambient pressure and the pressure in the intake tract of the internal combustion engine, the second pressure difference being different from the first pressure difference; computing a second expected mass flow into the intake tract; measuring a second mass flow into the intake tract and computing the difference between the meas