Control device for internal combustion engine and control method for internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020072151-A1
Application number	US-201916460396-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 2, 2019
Priority date	Aug 29, 2018
Publication date	Mar 5, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

A control device for an internal combustion engine includes at least one processor and a memory configured to store a program. The at least one processor is configured to execute, by executing the program, a process of deciding a manipulated variable of the internal combustion engine from a control input value, in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule, a process of calculating a sample value of the controlled variable, a process of calculating a reference expectation value of the controlled variable from the control input value, a process of performing a hypothesis test for a null hypothesis that an average value of a predetermined number of recent sample values of sample values of the controlled variable is equal to the reference expectation value, and a process of modifying the conversion rule by an adaptive control when the null hypothesis is rejected.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:
at least one processor; and a memory configured to store a program, the at least one processor being configured to execute a manipulated variable decision process, a sample value calculation process, an expectation value calculation process, a hypothesis test process and an adaptive control process by executing the program, the manipulated variable decision process decides a manipulated variable of the internal combustion engine from a control input value related to a controlled variable including a stochastic dispersion, in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule, the sample value calculation process calculates a sample value of the controlled variable for each sampling cycle based on information from a sensor that detects a state of the internal combustion engine, the expectation value calculation process calculates a reference expectation value of the controlled variable from the control input value using a normative model for the internal combustion engine, the hypothesis test process performs a hypothesis test for a null hypothesis that an average value of a predetermined number of recent sample values of sample values of the controlled variable is equal to the reference expectation value, and the adaptive control process modifies the predetermined conversion rule by an adaptive control based on an error between the average value and the reference expectation value when the null hypothesis is rejected.

2 . The control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the hypothesis test process includes an acceptance region calculation process and a determination process,
the acceptance region calculation process calculates an upper limit value of a range of acceptance and a lower limit value of the region of the acceptance by multiplication of a standard error of a reference normal population of the controlled variable when a number of sample data is the predetermined number by a predetermined critical value,
the determination process rejects the null hypothesis when the error between the average value and the reference expectation value does not fall within the region of the acceptance, and
the expectation value calculation process is a process of calculating an average value of the reference normal population, as the reference expectation value.

3 . The control device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the reference normal population is a set of sample values prior to the predetermined number of sample values of the controlled variable; and the reference expectation value and the standard error are updated for each sampling cycle.

4 . The control device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the reference normal population is a set of sample values of the controlled variable, the sample values being obtained from a reference internal combustion engine; and the reference expectation value and the standard error are predetermined values that are calculated from the reference normal population.

5 . The control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the manipulated variable decision process includes a feedback process of calculating a feedback value of the manipulated variable from the error between the average value and the reference expectation value; and the adaptive control process includes a feedback gain modification process of modifying a feedback gain in the feedback process, depending on the error between the average value and the reference expectation value.

6 . The control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the manipulated variable decision process includes a feedforward process of calculating a feedforward value of the manipulated variable from the control input value; and the adaptive control process includes a feedforward map modification process of modifying a feedforward map in the feedforward process, depending on the error between the average value and the reference expectation value.

7 . A control method for an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including a memory configured to store a program, and at least one processor configured to execute the program, the control method comprising:
executing, by the at least one processor, a manipulated variable decision process of deciding a manipulated variable of the internal combustion engine from a control input value related to a controlled variable including a stochastic dispersion, in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule; executing, by the at least one processor, a sample value calculation process of calculating a sample value of the controlled variable for each sampling cycle based on information from a sensor that detects a state of the internal combustion engine; executing, by the at least one processor, an expectation value calculation process of calculating a reference expectation value of the controlled variable from the control input value using a normative model for the internal combustion engine; executing, by the at least one processor, a hypothesis test process of performing a hypothesis test for a null hypothesis that an average value of a predetermined number of recent sample values of sample values of the controlled variable is equal to the reference expectation value; and executing, by the at least one processor, an adaptive control process of modifying the predetermined conversion rule by an adaptive control based on an error between the average value and the reference expectation value when the null hypothesis is rejected.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sata Kota
• Urano Shigeyuki
• Shen Tielong
• Gao Jinwu

Classifications

• F02D41/1401

  characterised by the control or regulation method (F02D41/1473, F02D41/1477 take precedence) · CPC title

• F02D21/08

  the other gas being the exhaust gas of engine · CPC title

• G05B13/04

  involving the use of models or simulators · CPC title

• F02D41/021

  Introducing corrections for particular conditions exterior to the engine (conjoint control of vehicle sub-units for propelling the vehicle B60W30/18) · CPC title

• G05B2219/2623

  Combustion motor · CPC title