摘要:
The method for determining segment times (Tk) required for controlling an internal combustion engine includes providing a transducer disk (17) connected to a camshaft of the engine with a plurality of markings equally spaced from each other on the transducer disk; measuring respective segment times (Tk) between detection of corresponding pairs of markings on the transducer disk (17) by means of a camshaft sensor (21); triggering fuel injection events and combustion events in order to trip acceleration events at a substantially constant camshaft rotation speed; determining a resulting acceleration quotient (Qk) for a current segment time as a quotient of the current segment time divided by a preceding segment time and correcting a following segment time by means of the acceleration quotient (Qk) for the current segment time. The method is not performed when the internal combustion engine has a crankshaft with a properly working crankshaft sensor for measuring crankshaft rotation speed.