Abstract:
A plant control system has a reference value setting unit for variably setting a reference value for an air-fuel ratio to be given to an exhaust system including a catalytic converter, depending on a component based on an adaptive control law of a manipulated variable of the air-fuel ratio generated by a controller according to an adaptive sliding mode control process in order to converge an output of an O2 sensor disposed downstream of the catalytic converter to a target value. The manipulated variable generated by the controller represents the difference between the air-fuel ratio and the reference value, required to converge the output of the O2 sensor to the target value.
Abstract:
An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine has a first air-fuel ratio sensor arranged in an exhaust passage at a location upstream of a catalyst and a second air-fuel ratio sensor arranged in the exhaust passage at a location downstream of the catalyst. In response to an output from the first air-fuel ratio sensor, an air-fuel ratio correction coefficient is calculated for correcting an amount of fuel supplied to the engine in a manner such that an air-fuel ratio of a mixture supplied to the engine is converged to a desired air-fuel ratio. In response to an output from the second air-fuel ratio sensor, a desired air-fuel ratio correction amount is calculated for correcting the desired air-fuel ratio. A learned value of the desired air-fuel ratio correction amount is calculated, and the desired air-fuel ratio is corrected. Calculation of the learned value of the desired air-fuel ratio correction amount is permitted depending on a ratio between a time period over which the output from the second air-fuel ratio sensor is on a richer side with respect to a predetermined reference value and a time period over which the output from the second air-fuel ratio sensor is on a leaner side with respect to the predetermined reference value.
Abstract:
A fuel metering control system for an internal combustion engine including a feedback loop having an adaptive controller and an adaptation mechanism that estimates a controller parameters .theta.. The adaptive controller corrects the quantity of fuel injection to bring a controlled variable obtained at least based on an output of said air/fuel ratio sensor, to a desired value. The air/fuel ratio sensor outputs are sampled and one of the sampled data is selected as the air/fuel ratio to be input to the adaptation mechanism. Similarly, the senor outputs are sampled and one of the sampled is selected in accordance with another characteristic to be used in the estimation of the air/fuel ratios of the individual cylinder. The air/fuel ratio is discriminated to be within a prescribed range, and set to a predetermined value when it is determined to be within the prescribed range.
Abstract:
A system for estimating an exhaust gas recirculation rate for an internal combustion engine. In the system, the EGR rate when its operation is steady is first determined to a desired value with respect to the engine operating conditions at least including the engine speed and the engine load, then the EGR rate is estimated as;EGR rate=(steady-state EGR rate).times.{(gas flow rate QACT determined by the actual valve lifting amount and the ratio between the upstream pressure and the downstream pressure of valve)/(gas flow rate QCMD determined by a command value and the ratio between the upstream pressure and the downstream pressure of valve)} A delay time until the recycled gas enters the combustion chamber is determined and one from among the EGR rates or a fuel injection correction coefficients calculated therefrom consecutively is selected.
Abstract:
An ignition timing control system controls ignition timing of spark plugs of an internal combustion engine associated with a plurality of changeover devices, changeover of an operative state of each of which has influence upon output torque of the engine. Operating conditions of the engine are detected. A basic ignition timing advance value is calculated based on results of detection of the operating conditions of the engine. A changeover of the operative state of each of the changeover devices is detected. A correction value for correcting the basic ignition timing advance value for suppressing the engine torque is calculated, in response to results of detection of the changeover of the operative state of each of the changeover devices. The largest one of a plurality of the correction values calculated is selected to a final correction value to be used for correcting the basic ignition timing advance value, when changeovers of the operative states of at least two of the changeover devices are detected substantially at the same time.
Abstract:
An intake air amount controlling apparatus of an engine is provided. The apparatus comprises an intake manifold that is branched from an intake manifold collecting portion of the engine. The intake manifold communicates with an intake port of a cylinder head of a corresponding cylinder. The apparatus further comprises a throttle valve in the intake manifold of the cylinder and a throttle bore provided in the intake manifold. The throttle bore has a curved surface. The throttle valve rotates such that one half of the throttle valve contacts with the curved surface of the throttle bore until the throttle valve reaches a predetermined opening degree. Thus, an air flow via the one half of the throttle valve is prevented from entering the intake port. An air flow via the other half of the throttle valve is allowed to enter the intake port. Areas of cross sections, which are orthogonal to an air flow passing in the intake manifold, of the intake manifold at upstream and downstream of the throttle valve are larger than an area of a cross section, which is orthogonal to an air flow entering the intake port, crossing an open face at which the intake manifold communicates with the intake port.
Abstract:
An air-fuel ratio controlling apparatus includes an internal pressure detector for detecting an internal pressure of a combustion chamber of the engine. The apparatus estimates a motoring pressure of the engine and determines a start-of-combustion time, a time point when a difference between the internal pressure and the motoring pressure exceeds a predetermined value in a compression stroke and a combustion stroke of the engine. Firing delay for each cylinder is calculated from as a duration from sparking to the start-of-combustion time. Air-fuel ratio of each cylinder is estimated based on the firing delay and fuel injection amount for each cylinder is calculated to make the air-fuel ratio of plural cylinders uniform.
Abstract:
An ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of ensuring both stability of control in a steady operating condition of the engine, and an excellent follow-up property of a controlled variable to a target value in a transient operating condition of the engine, even when the controlled variable contains a lot of high-frequency noise components. In the ignition timing control system, a maximum pressure angle-calculating section calculates a maximum pressure angle based on an in-cylinder pressure and a crank angle position. A target angle-calculating section calculates a target angle. A maximum pressure angle controller calculates a maximum pressure angle correction term with a control algorithm to which is applied a sliding mode control algorithm, using a value obtained by performing ε-filtering on a switching function, such that the maximum pressure angle converges to the target angle. The ignition timing is calculated by adding corrected ignition timing to the value.
Abstract:
An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of accurately estimating an exhaust gas state parameter according to the properties of fuel, thereby making it possible to properly control the air-fuel ratio of a mixture. The air-fuel ratio control system 1 estimates an exhaust gas state parameter indicative of a state of exhaust gases, as an estimated exhaust gas state parameter (AF13 NN) by inputting a detected combustion state parameter (DCADLYIG) indicative of a combustion state of the mixture in the engine 3, and detected operating state parameters (NE, TW, PBA, IGLOG, TOUT) indicative of operating states of the engine 3, to a neural network (NN) configured as a network to which are input the combustion state parameter (DCADLYIG) and the operating state parameters (NE, TW, PBA, IGLOG, TOUT), and in which the exhaust gas state parameter is used as a teacher signal (step 1), and controls the air-fuel ratio based on the estimated exhaust gas state parameter (AF_NN) (steps 3, 4, and 24 to 28).
Abstract translation:一种用于内燃机的空燃比控制系统,其能够根据燃料的特性精确地估计排气状态参数,从而可以适当地控制混合物的空燃比。 空燃比控制系统1通过输入检测到的燃烧状态参数(DCADLYIG)来估计表示排气状态的排气状态参数作为估计排气状态参数(AF 13 N NN) )和表示发动机3中的混合物的燃烧状态的检测到的运行状态参数(NE,TW,PBA,IGLOG,TOUT)发送到被配置为网络的神经网络(NN) 输入燃烧状态参数(DCADLYIG)和操作状态参数(NE,TW,PBA,IGLOG,TOUT),其中排气状态参数用作教师信号(步骤1),并且控制 基于估计的废气状态参数(AF_NN)(步骤3,4和24至28)的空燃比。
Abstract:
A control system for a throttle valve actuating device is disclosed. The throttle valve actuating device has a throttle valve of an internal combustion engine and an actuator for actuating the throttle valve. Model parameters of a controlled object model obtained by modeling the throttle valve actuating device is identified by an identifier. The model parameters includes a specific model parameter irrelevant to an input and an output of the controlled object model. An opening of the throttle valve is controlled to a target opening using the identified model parameters. It is determined that the throttle valve actuating device is abnormal when the value of the specific model parameter becomes greater than a predetermined value.