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US 12,584,440 B2Granted
Turbocharger control system for reduction of rotational speed fluctuation
AssigneeGarrett Transportation I Inc.
InventorsJens Keuler, Daniel Terber, Joachim Ziegler
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Abstract
A turbocharger control system including a turbocharger having an exhaust turbine and a centrifugal compressor mechanically coupled by a shaft, a pressure sensor for detecting a boost pressure, an electric motor configured to apply a rotational pressure to the shaft in response to a current, and a processor determining an expected rotational speed in response to the boost pressure, determining a current value in response to a difference between the expected rotational speed and a desired rotational speed, and generating a control signal indicative of the current value to control the current applied to the electric motor.
Claims10
A turbocharger control system comprising:
- a turbocharger having an exhaust turbine and a centrifugal compressor mechanically coupled by a shaft;
- a pressure sensor for detecting a series of boost pressure detections at regular time intervals, wherein the series of boost pressure detections is indicative of rotational speed fluctuations of the shaft;
- an electric motor configured to apply a rotational force and a damping force to the shaft to reduce the rotational speed fluctuations in response to a current;
- a processor configured to generate a pressure curve in response to the series of boost pressure detections, determine an expected rotational speed in response to the pressure curve, utilize a machine learning algorithm to determine a current value in response to a difference between the expected rotational speed and a desired rotational speed, wherein the current value is determined to maintain a constant rotational speed of the shaft, and to generate a control signal indicative of the current value to control the current applied to the electric motor;
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- a battery for supplying the current in response to the control signal being indicative of the expected rotational speed being less than the desired rotational speed and to receive the current from the electric motor in response to the control signal being indicative of the expected rotational speed being greater than the desired rotational speed
- wherein the current value is determined in response to a machine learning model generated by the machine learning algorithm,
- wherein the machine learning algorithm is configured to determine a required electric motor boost and a required damping to maintain a desired rotational speed of the shaft, and
- wherein deviations between an actual rotational speed and a predicted rotational speed are used as additional training data for the machine learning algorithm.
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A turbocharger control system comprising:
- rotational sensor for measuring a measured rotational speed of a turbocharger shaft;
- a pressure sensor for detecting a series of boost pressure detections at regular time intervals
- wherein the series of boost pressure detections is indicative of rotational speed fluctuations of the shaft;
- an electric motor configured to apply a rotational force to the turbocharger shaft and to apply a damping force to the turbocharger shaft to reduce the rotational speed fluctuations in response to a control signal;
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- a processor operative to generate a pressure curve in response to the series of boost pressure detections, to determine an expected rotational speed in response to the pressure curve, to determine a current value using a machine learning algorithm, in response to a difference between the expected rotational speed and a desired rotational speed wherein the current value is determined
- to maintain a constant rotational speed of the shaft, and to generate the control signal indicative of a current;
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- a battery for supplying the current in response to the control signal being indicative of the expected rotational speed being less than the desired rotational speed and to receive the current from the electric motor in response to the control signal being indicative of the expected rotational speed being greater than the desired rotational speed
- wherein the processor is further configured to store the current value and the measured rotational speed in a memory,
- wherein the machine learning algorithm is configured to determine a required electric motor boost and a required damping to maintain a desired rotational speed of the shaft, and
- wherein deviations between an actual rotational speed and a predicted rotational speed are used as additional training data for the machine learning algorithm.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.