Patent Document:

an internal combustion engine 1 according to fig1 of a motor vehicle ( not shown in more detail ) includes a piston 2 that is capable of back - and - forth movement in a cylinder 3 . standard internal combustion engines 1 include a plurality of pistons 2 and cylinders 3 . in the following , only one cylinder is presented in order to illustrate the concepts applied . as a rule , internal combustion engine 1 will include a plurality of cylinders . cylinder 3 includes a combustion chamber 4 that is limited inter alia by a piston 2 , an inlet valve 5 , and an outlet valve 6 . an intake pipe 7 is coupled to inlet valve 5 , and an exhaust pipe 8 is coupled to outlet valve 6 . in the area of inlet valve 5 and of outlet valve 6 , an injection valve 9 and a spark plug 10 extend into combustion chamber 4 ( in a spark - ignition engine having direct fuel injection ). in a diesel engine , here only one injection valve 9 , or a plurality of injection valves 9 , will be present , while in a spark - ignition engine only one or a plurality of spark plugs 10 will be present . via injection valve 9 , fuel can be injected into combustion chamber 4 . the fuel in combustion chamber 4 can be ignited by spark plug 10 . in intake pipe 7 , a rotatable throttle valve 11 is housed via which air is able to be supplied to intake pipe 7 . an air mass sensor 15 is situated upstream or downstream from throttle valve 11 . the quantity of supplied air is dependent on the angular position of throttle valve 11 . in a spark - ignition engine , in exhaust gas pipe 8 there is situated a lambda probe 13 for the measurement of the λ value of the fuel combustion in combustion chamber 4 . downstream from lambda probe 13 , there is situated a catalytic converter 12 that is used for additional chemical conversion of harmful materials contained in the exhaust gases . piston 2 is connected via a connecting rod 14 ( shown schematically ) to a crankshaft ( not shown ) of the internal combustion engine . piston 2 is set into motion by the combustion of the fuel / air mixture in combustion chamber 4 during a power stroke , and this movement is converted into a rotational movement in a known manner by connecting rod 14 and the crankshaft . a control device 18 is charged with input signals 19 that represent operating quantities , measured by sensors , of internal combustion engine 1 . for example , control device 18 is connected to air mass sensor 15 , lambda sensor 13 , a rotational speed sensor , an air temperature sensor , and the like . in addition , control device 18 is connected to an accelerator pedal sensor that produces a signal that indicates the position of an accelerator pedal that is able to be actuated by a driver , and thus indicates the required torque . control device 18 produces output signals 20 with which the behavior of internal combustion engine 1 can be influenced via actuators or actuating elements . for example , control device 18 is connected to injection valve 9 , spark plug 10 and throttle valve 11 , and the like , and produces the signals required to control these . control device 18 is provided for , inter alia , the purpose of controlling or regulating the operating quantities of internal combustion engine 1 . for example , the fuel mass injected into combustion chamber 4 by injection valve 9 is controlled or regulated by control device 18 in particular with respect to low fuel consumption and / or low production of pollutants . for this purpose , control device 18 is provided with a microprocessor that has stored in a storage medium , such as for example a read - only memory ( rom ), a program that controls the above - named method steps . on combustion chamber 4 , a cylinder pressure sensor 16 is situated that is connected to control device 18 by an electrical line 17 . between cylinder pressure sensor 16 and combustion chamber 4 , there is situated a duct 21 having length l . the installation position of cylinder pressure sensor 16 is indicated only schematically , and can vary according to the available constructive space and other requirements . the curve of the cylinder pressure provided by cylinder pressure sensor 16 , and quantities derived therefrom , are used as the input signal for various control functions . output signals of the control unit are for example control signals for the fuel metering and for controlling the ignition of the mixture . cylinder pressure sensor 16 supplies a signal according to fig2 ; whistle oscillations due to duct 21 are superposed on the actual pressure curve . fig2 shows the combustion chamber pressure p z in pascals over crankshaft angle kw in degrees ; via the rotational speed , kw can be converted into a time series . the method is based on a modeling of the whistle oscillation , so that a suitable filtering of the measured cylinder pressure curve can take place before the actual thermodynamic features are calculated from the cylinder pressure . the basic idea is to suppress the singular frequency of the whistle oscillation using a filter that blocks this frequency ( known as a band - stop characteristic ). using a digital method , a digital filter , this is possible for the measured pressure curve after the complete working cycle has been acquired . one embodiment is the storing of the filter coefficients ( once determined ) in the control unit for the various frequencies of the whistle oscillation , or else the calculation of the respective coefficients dependent on the operating point of the internal combustion engine . from the literature , the relation between the frequency of the excited whistle oscillation f and the sound velocity c is known . c is determined from the length 1 of duct 21 between combustion chamber 4 and cylinder pressure sensor 16 , as well as from gas temperature t , the gas constant r , and the isentropic exponent χ : that is , for the operating points of the internal combustion engine ( e . g . described by rotational speed , load , air / fuel ratio ), the frequency f can be determined . here the most important variable parameter is the gas temperature t . this temperature can be determined once during the calibration of the control unit , and stored in characteristic fields . another possibility is calculation using a suitable thermodynamic model . another possible realization is the spectral analysis of the cylinder pressure signal . the whistle oscillation can in this way be determined in its frequency dependent on the operating point . the spectral analysis can take place offline during the calibration for different operating points of the internal combustion engine , or can take place online for each operating cycle . the suitable filter can then again be selected in order to sufficiently suppress this frequency . a particular advantage of the almost complete storing of a working cycle is the possibility of compensating the undesired phase shift of the cylinder pressure signal by running through the filter twice ( null phase filtering ). in this way , the important relations between the crankshaft angle and the cylinder pressure curve are not falsified . to sum up , the sequence of the correction method is described below : sampling of the cylinder pressure curve for a complete working cycle with sufficient sampling frequency , and storing of the signal determination of the gas temperature and calculation of the whistle oscillation frequency determination of the filter coefficients for a band - stop filter filtering of the cylinder pressure curve for engine controlling systems , this method can effectively compensate the basic disadvantage of the situation of the cylinder pressure transducer away from the combustion chamber . the advantages of the situation , namely advantageous placement in a component and low thermal loading of the pressure transducer , are retained .

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