Patent ID: 8200387
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: F02D,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an operation of an internal combustion engine comprising the steps of: determining, by a processor, a target torque to be produced by the internal combustion engine in a plurality of steps, wherein in a first step, a torque requested by a user is determined and modified in subsequent steps by different functions which reproduce the effects of at least one continuously determined usage and/or operating parameter of the internal combustion engine on the torque that is actually produced, such that at the end of the steps the target torque required during operation of the internal combustion engine is established, monitoring the operation of the internal combustion engine and the determination of the usage and/or operating parameters for errors and, if errors occur, diagnostic values that describe or indicate said errors are generated, using the diagnostic values to change the target torque, and assigning the diagnostic values individually to the respective steps and using the diagnostic values during execution of the respective steps to change the determination or modification of the torque effected in the respective step.