Abstract:
An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of quickly and properly eliminating variation in air-fuel ratio between a plurality of cylinders. The air-fuel ratio control system 1 controls the amount of fuel to be supplied to first to fourth cylinders #1 to #4, on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis, thereby controlling the air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to each of the cylinders. A LAF sensor 14 delivers to an ECU 2 an output KACT indicative of the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gases emitted from the cylinders and merged. A cycle filter 23a and a rotation filter 23b filters the output KACT from the LAF sensor 14 such that components in respective bands of a first frequency fr1 and a second frequency fr2 are allowed to pass therethrough. A final fuel injection amount TOUTi is determined, on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis, according to a first filtered value KACT_Fc or a second filtered value KACT_Fr such that the amplitude of the filtered value KACT_Fc or KACT_Fr converges to a predetermined value.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for estimating an amount of drawn air of a cylinder and a method and an apparatus for controlling the amount of drawn air, are presented. An estimated value of an amount of drawn air of the cylinder, based on intake manifold pressure, is multiplied by a value of an identification parameter obtained by an adaptive observer, to obtain a final estimated value of an amount of drawn air of the cylinder. An accurate estimated value in a transient state as well as an estimated value not oscillating in a steady state can be obtained. Accordingly, accuracy of air-fuel ratio control can be remarkably increased.
Abstract:
There are provided a control apparatus capable of controlling a controlled object with reduce dead time in sign inversion between the input to and the output from one of ΔΣ and ΣΔ modulation algorithms, thereby attaining improved convergence of the output from the controlled object to a target value and improved controllability. An ECU of the control apparatus calculates a limiting value DSMVO2L of a reference input DSMVO2, as DSMVO2L=−1 when DSMVO2
Abstract:
A control system for a plant is disclosed. The control system includes a response specifying type controller for controlling the plant with a response specifying type control. The response specifying type controller calculates a nonlinear input according to a sign of a value of a switching function and an output of the plant. The switching function is defined as a linear function of a deviation between the output of the plant and a control target value. A control input from the response specifying type controller to the plant includes the nonlinear input.
Abstract:
A plant control system provides an enhanced capability of compensation for disturbance that abruptly changes. A controller includes a disturbance predictor for calculating a predicted value of disturbance on the basis of a drag force of a release spring and an assisting force of a compensation spring that are predicted on the basis of a clutch stroke, an adaptive disturbance observer for calculating an estimated value of disturbance on the basis of the estimated value of disturbance, a voltage to be applied to a motor, and the clutch stroke, and a sliding mode controller, which determines the voltage to be applied to the motor by carrying out control for making the clutch stroke follow a clutch stroke target value by determining the voltage to be applied to the motor by sliding mode control on the basis of the clutch stroke, the predicted value of disturbance, and the estimated value of disturbance.
Abstract:
An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for controlling an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture to be supplied to an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders so that the air-fuel ratio coincides with a target air-fuel ratio. An air-fuel ratio is detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor provided at a position downstream of a joining portion of an exhaust manifold connected to the plurality of cylinders. Model parameters of a controlled object model defined by a relation between an air-fuel ratio detected by the air-fuel ratio sensor and a fuel supply amount parameter that specifies a fuel supply amount to each cylinder of the engine. A degree of differences between air-fuel ratios of air-fuel mixtures to be supplied to the plurality of cylinders is determined according to the identified model parameters.
Abstract:
A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of reducing exhaust emissions during and after the start of the engine. A control system is capable of changing the valve-closing timing of intake valves relative to the valve-opening timing thereof as desired using a variable intake valve actuation assembly. The control system includes an ECU. The ECU sets a target auxiliary intake cam phase to a start value that sets the valve-closing timing of the intake valves to retarded-closing timing, during starting of the engine, and to a catalyst warmup value that sets the same to timing closer to timing in the Otto cycle operation, during catalyst warmup control after the start of the engine.
Abstract:
A system controls the air-fuel ratio in an exhaust gas supplied from an internal combustion engine to a catalytic converter in order to keep an output voltage Vout of an O2 sensor disposed downstream of the catalytic converter at a predetermined target value Vop. In the system, the temperature of an active element of the O2 sensor is controlled at a predetermined temperature such that the output voltage of the O2 sensor at an inflection point of output characteristics thereof is substantially the same as the target value Vop.
Abstract:
There is provided a degradation determining system for an exhaust gas sensor, which, even when unexpected changes occur in the air-fuel ratio during execution of air-fuel ratio control, can determine degradation of the sensor by suppressing adverse influence of noise caused by the changes on the output from the sensor, to thereby enhance the accuracy of the degradation determination. In the degradation determining system, a determining input signal IDSIN for determining the degradation of the sensor is generated, and a modulation output (u(k), DSMSGNS(k), us(k), or ud(k)) is generated by modulating the determining input signal IDSIN by using any one of the &Dgr;&Sgr; modulation algorithm, the &Sgr;&Dgr; modulation algorithm, and the &Dgr; modulation algorithm. Degradation of the sensor is determined based on the output KACT delivered from the sensor when the fuel injection amount is controlled based on the generated modulation output.
Abstract:
A control system for a plant, includes a sliding mode controller for controlling the plant with a sliding mode control. The sliding mode controller controls the plant using a switching function defined as a linear function of a deviation between an output of the plant and a control target value, and changes the switching function according to at least one of a parameter indicative of the output of the plant and a parameter indicative of an amount of change in the output of the plant.