Patent ID: 8032293

Claim:
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine, in particular a diesel internal combustion engine, comprising the steps of: forming at least one variable (H XX , H 50 ) on a cylinder-specific basis, which variable characterizes a respective profile of a combustion in an associated combustion chamber on the basis of a measured combustion chamber pressure profile, forming an indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) value and an indicated pressure profile from the measured combustion chamber pressure profile as a function of a crank angle of a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, forming a variable which characterizes the combustion profile, in the form of one of an (energy) conversion point, and a combustion point (H XX , H 50 ) or an approximation thereto from the indicated pressure profile, which variable (H XX , H 50 ), characterizes the combustion profile and influences the time interval between a start ( 5 ) of a pilot injection ( 3 ) and the occurrence ( 15 ) of the variable (H XX , H 50 ) and controlling cylinder-specific fuel injection parameters as a function of said at least one variable (H XX , H 50 ) which characterizes the combustion profile.