Method and system for filtering a disturbed cylinder pressure signal from a cylinder in an internal combustion engine

• US 7,930,093 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2009
• Issued: 04/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Haag, Jan, L'Hénoret, Benjamin, Bauer, Erwin, Ellmer, Dietmar
• Primary Examiner(s): KWON, JOHN
• Application Number:
  US12/351,952
• Publication Number:
  US 20090182491A1
• Time in Patent Office: 827 Days
• Field of Search: 701/103, 701/110, 701/111, 701/114, 123/435, 123/406.13, 123/406.27, 123/406.41, 123/406.42, 123/436, 123/179.4, 73/350.3, 73/351.2
• US Class Current: 701/114
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/1432 the system including a filter, e.g. a low pass or high pass filter
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/281 between sensors and control unit
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/023 by determining the cylinder pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/009 using means for generating position or synchronisation signals

Abstract

For at least one disturbance variable of the cylinder pressure signal, which disturbance variable occurs only during specific limited time spans as the pressure profile of an operating cycle, a filter tuned to the type of disturbance variable is fixed and is assigned to the corresponding disturbance variable time window or windows (8, 9, 10) in the operating cycle. The cylinder pressure signal (2) is then filtered as a function of the crankshaft angle, in that, according to the crankshaft position, a time-tuned and type-tuned filter is applied to a current disturbance variable.

Claims

1. A method for filtering a disturbed cylinder pressure signal from a cylinder in an internal combustion engine, wherein during one operating cycle of the engine, the disturbed cylinder pressure signal is affected by multiple disturbance variables occurring during specific time periods in the operating cycle, the multiple disturbance variables including multiple different types of disturbance variables, the method comprising the steps of:

maintaining assignments of different filter types to the different types of disturbance variables, each assignment comprising an assignment of one of the different filter types to one of the different types of disturbance variables, such that at least two different filter types are assigned to at least two different types of disturbance variables,

for each disturbance variable in the pressure signal occurring during the operating cycle;

determining the type of the disturbance variable and applying the type of filter that is assigned to that type of disturbance variable in order to filter the disturbance variable from the pressure signal, such that different filter types are used to filter different disturbance variables during the operating cycle, and

controlling the timing of applying the filters to the multiple disturbance variables in the cylinder pressure signal as a function of a crankshaft angle and predetermined time windows corresponding to the disturbance variables.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising determining the filter type assigned to each disturbance variable and the corresponding disturbance variable time windows by tests on an engine test bench or on a test vehicle.

3. The method according to claim 1, comprising determining at least one filter parameter for each type of filter.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the at least one filter parameters include one or more of high-pass, low-pass, limit frequency and quality.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the cylinder pressure is detected by a cylinder pressure sensor belonging to the cylinder, and wherein the filter parameters are stored in a non-volatile manner in an electronic evaluation unit assigned to the cylinder pressure sensor.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information on the current crankshaft position is dependent on rotational speed and is determined from a cylinder pressure profile analysis, significant points of the cylinder pressure profile being detected during an operating cycle of the internal combustion engine, and the engine rotational speed and current crankshaft position being determined from these points.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the engine rotational speed is determined from the time sequence of two combustion pressure maxima detected in the cylinder pressure profile.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein, while the internal combustion engine is in operation, a camshaft phase adjustment takes place, by means of which the position of the disturbance variable windows is displaced in relation to the crankshaft position, and wherein filtration dependent on the crankshaft angle takes place, with the current camshaft phase adjustment being taken into account.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the camshaft phase adjustment is determined from at least one of the pressure drop during the opening of the outlet valves and the pressure rise during the closing of the inlet valves.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein filter type comprising a low-pass filter with a limit frequency of about 5 kHz is assigned to a disturbance variable which is caused by the closing of gas exchange valves of the internal combustion engine.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein filter type comprising a low-pass filter with a limit frequency of about 5 kHz is assigned to a disturbance variable which is caused by the closing of the gas exchange valves of the cylinder which is specific in terms of the cylinder pressure.

12. A system for filtering a disturbed cylinder pressure signal from a cylinder in an internal combustion engine, wherein during one operating cycle of the engine, the disturbed cylinder pressure signal is affected by multiple disturbance variables occurring during specific time periods in the operating cycle, the multiple disturbance variables including multiple different types of disturbance variables, the system comprising:

non-volatile memory storing assignments of different filter types to the different types of disturbance variables, each assignment comprising an assignment of one of the different filter types to one of the different types of disturbance variables, such that at least two different filter types are assigned to at least two different types of disturbance variables,

an electronic evaluation unit embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media, which electronic evaluation unit is operable, for each disturbance variable of the cylinder pressure signal, which disturbance variable occurs during specific limited time spans of the pressure profile of an operating cycle, to determine the type of the disturbance variable and applying the type of filter that is assigned to that type of disturbance variable in order to filter the disturbance variable from the pressure signal, such that different filter types are used to filter different disturbance variables during

wherein the non-volatile memory further stores disturbance variable time windows associated with the multiple disturbance variables in the operating cycle , and

wherein the electronic evaluation unit is further operable to control the timing of applying the filters to the disturbance variables based on a current crankshaft position and the stored disturbance variable windows associated with the multiple disturbance variables.

13. The system according to claim 12, in which the evaluation unit is an autonomously operating apparatus independent of the engine control.

14. The system according to claim 13, in which the evaluation unit and a cylinder pressure sensor for detecting the untreated cylinder pressure signal form a spatially integrated component.

15. The system according to claim 12 in which the alternating activation, dependent on the crankshaft angle, of the respective disturbance variable-selective filters is implemented with the aid of a universal filter circuit.

16. A system for filtering a disturbed cylinder pressure signal from a cylinder in an internal combustion engine, wherein during one operating cycle of the engine, the disturbed cylinder pressure signal is affected by multiple disturbance variables occurring during specific time periods in the operating cycle, the multiple disturbance variables including multiple different types of disturbance variables, comprising:

means for storing assignments of different filter types to the different types of disturbance variables, each assignment comprising an assignment of one of the different filter types to one of the different types of disturbance variables, such that at least two different filter types are assigned to at least two different types of disturbance variables,

for each disturbance variable in the pressure signal occurring during the operating cycle;

means for determining the type of the disturbance variable and applying the type of filter that is assigned to that type of disturbance variable in order to filter the disturbance variable from the pressure signal, such that different filter types are used to filter different disturbance variables during the operating cycle.

means for controlling the timing of applying the filters to the multiple disturbance variables in the cylinder pressure signal as a function of a crankshaft angle and predetermined time windows corresponding to the disturbance variables.

17. The system according to claim 16, comprising means for determining the filter type assigned to each disturbance variable and the corresponding disturbance variable time windows by tests on an engine test bench or on a test vehicle.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein at least filter parameter for each type of filter is selected form the group consisting of high-pass, low-pass, limit frequency and quality is determined and is fixed.

19. The system according to claim 18, comprising a cylinder pressure sensor belonging to the cylinder detecting the cylinder pressure wherein the filter parameters are stored in a non-volatile manner in an electronic evaluation unit assigned to the cylinder pressure sensor.