Method for adapting mixture control in internal combustion engines with direct fuel injection

An electronic control device for compensating for a faulty adaptation of a pilot control for metering a fuel of an internal combustion engine, comprising:

• an arrangement for operating the engine in at least two different operating modes including a homogeneous mode and a stratified charge mode;
• an arrangement for performing a mixture regulation and an adaption of the mixture regulation in the homogenous mode;
• an arrangement for assigning a priority to each of a plurality of operating mode requirements;
• an arrangement for determining a desired operating mode from the plurality of operating mode requirements, the desired operating mode being determined depending on the priorities assigned to the operating mode requirements;
• an arrangement for switching between the at least two different operating modes, the switching depending on the desired operating mode;
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• an arrangement for switching to the homogeneous mode in response to elevating a physical priority of the adaptation in different time references.