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The internal combustion engine and motor should be controlled coordinately to meet the demand of smooth power transfer and good drivability especially during transient conditions for parallel hybrid powertrain system. This paper presents the essential technology of how to estimate the engine torque by the measurement and processing of instantaneous crankshaft speed. One multi-injection gasoline engine and one turbocharged diesel engine are selected to manifest the algorithm of engine torque estimation and the experiments show fairly good results for both engines. Consequently an engine torque sensor can be easily calibrated and applied to feedback engine torque in coordinating control.

Cylinder-by-cylinder variation control is an important issue to the solenoid-based electronic diesel engines. Large variation causes bad engine performance and should be avoided. This paper presents the research results achieved by the author on the issue of cylinder-by-cylinder closed-loop feedback control of diesel engines. Momentary flywheel speed is processed to estimate the cylinder-by-cylinder variation. Utilizing a special signal modulation technique, the new cylinder-by-cylinder variations detection algorithm is worked out, which has a good adaptive capability to fluctuation characteristics of the momentary flywheel speed under variant operating conditions. This algorithm extends the variations detection range from the low speed and steady state engine conditions to the whole engine steady operating condition of the engine and some transient conditions. The closed-loop control of the cylinder-by-cylinder variation is carried out on the engine test bench.