A control system (200, Fig. 2), a vehicle (1, Fig. 1), a method 500, and computer software (208, Fig. 3), for managing exhaust emissions of a vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine (10, Fig. 2), an exhaust gas aftertreatment device (152, Fig. 2) having an emission control capability dependent on its temperature, a heating system (130, Fig. 2) for raising a temperature of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device (152, Fig. 2); The control system comprises one or more controllers (201, Fig. 3) and is configured to: receive 502 an input signal (211, Fig. 3) indicative of the emission control capability of the exhaust gas aftertreatment device, determine 510, 514, 519, 530, 534 a warmup management strategy 518, 520, 532, 538 in dependence on the input signal, wherein the determined warmup management strategy controls whether the internal combustion engine is to be controlled in dependence on the input signal and whether the heating system is to be controlled in dependence on the input signal, and output at least one control signal (213, Fig. 3) in accordance with the determined warmup management strategy.
Warmup strategies for controlling engine exhaust emissions
2023-06-14
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
HYBRID VEHICULAR WARMUP CONTROL METHOD AND WARMUP CONTROL APPARATUS
European Patent Office | 2021
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