Controller and control method for internal combustion engine

• US 10,215,111 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2017
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Hagari, Hideki, Tokuyama, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Vilakazi, Sizo
• Assistant Examiner(s): Steckbauer, Kevin R
• Application Number:
  US15/431,852
• Publication Number:
  US 20180087459A1
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• Field of Search: 7311415, 7311422, 7311424
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/101 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2200/1012 Engine speed gradient
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2250/28 Control for reducing torsional vibrations, e.g. at acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/023 by determining the cylinder pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/024 using an estimation
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/028 by determining the combustion timing or phasing
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 37/02 one of the functions being ignition
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0047 Controlling exhaust gas recirculation [EGR] temperature control with cooler in recirculation circuit F02M26/33
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/005 according to engine operating conditions
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1498 measuring engine roughness
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/26 using computer, e.g. microprocessor
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/12 using electric or magnetic means G01D5/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 23/24 specially adapted for measuring pressure in inlet or exhaust ducts of internal-combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 3/04 wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft

Abstract

To provide a controller and a control method for an internal combustion engine capable of estimating the cylinder internal pressure of the combustion cylinder accurately in consideration of the torsional vibration of the crankshaft. A controller for an internal combustion engine includes a torsional torque calculator that calculates a value which has an amplitude of the maximum value of torsional vibration torque calculated based on a crank angle acceleration in the combustion period, and vibrates with a preliminarily set natural angular frequency, as a torsional vibration torque in the combustion period; and a cylinder internal pressure estimator that calculates a combustion gas pressure torque, by use of the equation of motion of the rotation system of the crankshaft, based on the crank angle, the crank angle acceleration, and the torsional vibration torque, and estimates the cylinder internal pressure of the combustion cylinder based on the combustion gas pressure torque.

Claims

1. A controller for an internal combustion engine that is provided with a plurality of detected units provided in a rotation member, which rotates integrally with a crankshaft, at a plurality of preliminarily set crank angles, and a specific crank angle sensor which is fixed to a nonrotation member and detects the plurality of detected units, the controller for an internal combustion engine comprising:

at least one processor configured to implement;

an angle information calculator that detects a crank angle based on an output signal of the specific crank angle sensor, and calculates a crank angle speed which is a time change rate of the crank angle, and a crank angle acceleration which is a time change rate of the crank angle speed;

a torsional torque calculator that calculates a maximum value of a torsional vibration torque which is a vibration component of a torsional torque produced by torsion of the crankshaft, based on the crank angle acceleration in a combustion period, by multiplying a preliminarily set conversion constant with a maximum value of the crank angle acceleration in the combustion period, and calculates a waveform which has an amplitude of the maximum value of the torsional vibration torque and vibrates with a preliminarily set natural angular frequency of the torsional vibration, as the torsional vibration torque in the combustion period;

a cylinder internal pressure estimator that calculates a combustion gas pressure torque produced by combustion, by use of an equation of motion of a rotation system of the crankshaft containing piston, connecting rod, and crank of the internal combustion engine, based on the crank angle, the crank angle acceleration, and the torsional vibration torque, and estimates a cylinder internal pressure of a combustion cylinder, based on the combustion gas pressure torque and the crank angle;

a combustion parameter calculator that calculates a combustion parameter of one or both of a heat release rate and a mass combustion rate based on the cylinder internal pressure of the combustion cylinder; and

a combustion control unit that changes one or both of an ignition timing and an EGR amount based on the combustion parameter.

2. The controller for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the torsional torque calculator calculates a basic vibration waveform which starts vibration from a vibration start crank angle which is set in the combustion period, using a preliminarily set vibration waveform which vibrates with the natural angular frequency, and calculates a waveform which has an amplitude of the maximum value of the torsional vibration torque and vibrates with the basic vibration waveform, as the torsional vibration torque in the combustion period.

3. The controller for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the torsional torque calculator sets the torsional vibration torque to Δ

Tt, sets the maximum value of the torsional vibration torque to Δ

Ttmax, sets the natural angular frequency to ω

n, and sets time after a vibration start crank angle which is set in the combustion period to t;

calculates the torsional vibration torque by an equation of

Δ

Tt=Δ

Ttmax×

{cos(ω

n×

t)−

1};

and sets the torsional vibration torque before the vibration start crank angle to 0.

4. The controller for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the torsional torque calculator calculates the torsional vibration torque which starts vibration from a vibration start crank angle which is set at a crank angle between a top dead center of the combustion cylinder and a crank angle at which the torsional vibration torque becomes the maximum value.

5. The controller for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the torsional torque calculator calculates, as the torsional vibration torque, a component of the torsional torque which decreases by decreasing the torsional angle of the crankshaft by twist return from the state where the crankshaft was twisted to the maximum by the maximum torque in combustion.

6. The controller for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein the cylinder internal pressure estimator calculates a total inertia torque by multiplying an inertia moment of the rotation system to the crank angle acceleration;

calculates a piston inertia torque of the combustion cylinder which was produced by an inertial force of a piston of the combustion cylinder, and a piston inertia torque of an unburnt cylinder which was produced by an inertial force of a piston of the unburnt cylinder, based on the crank angle and the crank angle acceleration;

calculates a cylinder internal pressure torque of the unburnt cylinder which was produced by a cylinder internal pressure of the unburnt cylinder based on the crank angle;

calculates an external load torque by subtracting the total inertia torque from a total value of the cylinder internal pressure torque of the unburnt cylinder and the piston inertia torque of the unburnt cylinder in the case where the crank angle is the top dead center of the combustion cylinder, and

calculates, as the combustion gas pressure torque, a value which subtracted the piston inertia torque of the combustion cylinder, the piston inertia torque of the unburnt cylinder, the cylinder internal pressure torque of the unburnt cylinder, and the torsional vibration torque from the total inertia torque, and added the external load torque to the total inertia torque.

7. A control method for an internal combustion engine that is provided with a plurality of detected units provided in a rotation member, which rotates integrally with a crankshaft, at a plurality of preliminarily set crank angles, and a specific crank angle sensor which is fixed to a nonrotation member and detects the plurality of detected units, the control method for an internal combustion engine comprising:

an angle information calculating that detects a crank angle based on an output signal of the specific crank angle sensor, and calculates a crank angle speed which is a time change rate of the crank angle, and a crank angle acceleration which is a time change rate of the crank angle speed;

a torsional torque calculating that calculates a maximum value of a torsional vibration torque which is a vibration component of a torsional torque produced by torsion of the crankshaft, based on the crank angle acceleration in a combustion period, by multiplying a preliminarily set conversion constant with a maximum value of the crank angle acceleration in the combustion period, and calculates a waveform which has an amplitude of the maximum value of the torsional vibration torque and vibrates with a preliminarily set natural angular frequency of the torsional vibration, as the torsional vibration torque in the combustion period;

a cylinder internal pressure estimating that calculates a combustion gas pressure torque produced by combustion, by use of an equation of motion of a rotation system of the crankshaft containing piston, connecting rod, and crank of the internal combustion engine, based on the crank angle, the crank angle acceleration, and the torsional vibration torque, and estimates a cylinder internal pressure of a combustion cylinder, based on the combustion gas pressure torque and the crank angle;

a combustion parameter calculating that calculates a combustion parameter of one or both of a heat release rate and a mass combustion rate based on the cylinder internal pressure of the combustion cylinder; and

a combustion controlling that changes one or both of an ignition timing and an EGR amount based on the combustion parameter.