Abstract:
An apparatus for controlling the air-fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine to stably determine a highly reliable identified value of a parameter of a model of an exhaust system including a catalytic converter and to increase the purifying capability of the catalytic converter. An exhaust-side control unit 7a sequentially variably sets a dead time of an exhaust system E depending on the flow rate of an exhaust gas supplied to a catalytic converter 3, and sequentially identifies the value of a parameter of a model of the exhaust system E which has a dead time element of the set dead time. The exhaust-side control unit 7a sequentially calculates a target air-fuel ratio KCMD to converge the output of an O2 sensor 6 to a target value using the identified value of the parameter, and an engine-side control unit 7b manipulates the air-fuel ratio of the internal combustion engine 1 depending on the target air-fuel ratio KCMD. According to the algorithm of the process of identifying the parameter of the model of the exhaust system E, the value of a weighted parameter is variable set depending on the flow rate of the exhaust gas.
Abstract:
A control apparatus that is capable of maintaining both the control resolution and the control accuracy at respective high levels even when at least one of the nonlinearity and the frequency characteristic of a controlled object varies. A control apparatus 1 that control a cam phase Cain by a phase control input Ucain includes two controllers 102 and 103. The two-degree-of-freedom response-specifying controller 102 calculates a follow-up control input Rsld as a value for causing the cam phase to follow a target cam phase Cain_camd. The DSM controller 103 calculates a phase control input Ucain by modulating the follow-up control input Rsld, and in the calculation, the repetition period at which the phase control input Ucain is calculated is selected from two repetition periods ΔT1 and ΔT2 according to engine speed NE, a cam phase Cain, and a valve lift Liftin.
Abstract:
An apparatus for detecting an in-cylinder pressure of an engine is provided. The apparatus comprises an in-cylinder pressure sensor for outputting a signal indicating a change rate of an in-cylinder pressure and a control unit. The control unit is configured to correct the signal from the in-cylinder pressure sensor, integrate the corrected signal to determine the in-cylinder pressure, determine a change rate of a drift contained in the determined in-cylinder, and feedback the change rate of the drift so that the correction of the signal is made with the change rate of the drift. Since the output of the in-cylinder pressure sensor from which a drift has been removed is integrated, it is prevented that a drift appears in the in-cylinder pressure obtained by the integral. A resetting operation is not required so as to remove a drift.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure are presented, to compensate for a large lag or a large time delay without producing an overshot or discontinuous behaviors of a predicted value. The method comprises the step of obtaining a difference of values of a variable to be predicted and a difference of values of another variable ahead of the variable to be predicted. The method further comprises the step of filtering the differences with adaptive filters. The method further comprises the step of obtaining a predicted difference of values of the variable to be predicted, through algorithm of estimation with fuzzy reasoning. The method further comprises the step of adding the predicted difference of values of the variable to be predicted, to a current value of the variable to be predicted, to obtain a predicted value of the variable to be predicted.
Abstract:
A controller which is capable of maintaining stability of a control system even if the dynamic characteristic of a controlled object temporarily changes sharply in the case where a controlled object model is used. An ECU of the controller calculates a first disturbance estimate by carrying out a low-pass filtering process and a rate limiting process on a first estimation error as the difference between a fuel pressure estimate calculated with an estimation algorithm and a fuel pressure. Then, the ECU calculates a second disturbance estimate based on a second estimation error as the difference between the first estimation error and the first disturbance estimate, with a predetermined disturbance estimation algorithm. Further, the ECU calculates a fuel pressure control input based on the fuel pressure and the first and second disturbance estimates, with a predetermined control algorithm.
Abstract:
In a temperature control system of a plant such as an engine exhaust system, there are provided a catalyst heat model calculating a temperature estimated value of the plant, a temperature sensor model inputting the calculated value to calculate an output estimated value of a temperature sensor, a temperature controller controlling the plant temperature based on the estimated value, and a model parameter corrector correcting the plant model parameter so as to minimize error between the temperature sensor output and the calculated output estimated value. With this, even in the case where the temperature sensor has a large response lag, the temperature estimated value can nevertheless be corrected with high accuracy, without, for example, causing severe overshooting.
Abstract:
An air/fuel ratio control apparatus an internal combustion engine, and an engine control unit are provided for conducting perturbation control to maintain a satisfactory exhaust gas purification percentage irrespective of whether or not a catalyst is deteriorated. The air/fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an ECU, and a LAF sensor and an O2 sensor disposed at locations upstream and downstream of a first catalyst, respectively, in an exhaust pipe. The ECU sets a target air/fuel ratio for converging the output of the O2 sensor to a predetermined target value such that it fluctuates over a predetermined amplitude at a predetermined frequency higher when the output of the O2 sensor remains near a predetermined target value than when it is not near the predetermined target value. The ECU also controls an air/fuel ratio to match the output of the LAF sensor with the target air/fuel ratio KCMD.
Abstract:
A control apparatus for controlling an object that is modeled using at least one model parameter is provided. The control apparatus comprises an identifier, a controller and a modulator. The identifier identifies the model parameter. The controller is coupled to the identifier and uses the model parameter to determine a reference input so that an output of the object converges to a desired value. The modulator is coupled to the controller and applies any one of a delta-sigma modulation algorithm, a sigma-delta modulation algorithm and a delta modulation algorithm to the reference input to determine an input into the object. The model parameter is identified based on the output of the object and the reference input. Since the identifier determines the model parameter based on the reference input, the model parameters is prevented from vibrating.
Abstract:
A control system for a plant is provided. This control system can control the plant more stably, when the model parameters of the controlled object model which are obtained by modeling the plant, which is a controlled object, are identified and the sliding mode control is performed using the identified model parameters. The model parameter identifier (22) calculates a model parameter vector (θ) by adding an updating vector (d θ) to a reference vector (θ base) of the model parameter. The updating vector (d θ) is corrected by multiplying a past value of at least one element of the updating vector by a predetermined value which is greater than “0” and less than “1”. The model parameter vector (θ) is calculated by adding the corrected updating vector (d θ) to the reference vector (θ base).
Abstract:
An in-cylinder pressure sensor for outputting a signal corresponding to an internal cylinder pressure of an engine is provided. A first signal and a second signal are extracted from the output signal of the in-cylinder pressure sensor. The first signal has a frequency band corresponding to knocking of the engine. The second signal has a frequency band used for detecting a peak of the internal cylinder pressure. A knocking detection period is set based on the second signal. The first signal in the knocking detection period is examined to determine whether or not knocking has occurred.