Method for operating an air conditioner, and air conditioner for a means of transport

Air conditioning system for a transportation means, having a manual operation and an automatic operation, whereby each automatic characteristic line is correctable in automatic operation based on a manual adjustment process, the system comprising:

• sensors for detecting operating state values that influence climate in the transportation means and represent an operating state;
• actuators in the form of air conditioning system components;
• memory means having a plurality of automatic characteristic lines for different operating states, representing fixedly predetermined dependencies between the operating state values detected and manipulated variables for actuators of the air conditioning system during automatic operation;
• adjusting means for performing the manual adjustment procedure and preselecting manipulated variables for the actuators of the air conditioning system;
• means for detecting a manual adjustment operation during operation of the air conditioning system;
• means for selecting an automatic characteristic line to be corrected for a certain operating state;
• means for determining manipulated variable deviation between a manipulated variable adjusted on the basis of the manual adjustment operation and a manipulated variable assigned to automatic operation at the same operating state value;
• means for determining a learning value by weighting the manipulated variable deviation with a weighting factor;
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• means for adjusting the automatic characteristic line as a function of the learning value, so that each learning value is weighted with a weighting function over a range of several interpolation points and the automatic characteristic line to be corrected is corrected at each of the interpolation points as a function of the weighted learning value.

Method for operating an air conditioning system that is operable both manually and automatically for a transportation means, the method comprising the acts of:

• detecting presence of a manual adjustment operation,
• determining a manipulated variable deviation between the manipulated variable set on the basis of the manual adjustment operation and the manipulated variable assigned to automatic operation when the operating state values are the same,
• determining a learning value by weighting the manipulated variable deviation using a weighting factor,
• adjusting the automatic characteristic line as a function of the learning value by weighting each learning value a weighting function over a range of several interpolation points, and correcting the automatic characteristic line to be weighted as a function of the weighted learning value at each of the interpolation points.