The invention relates to a system for calibrating apparatus (28) for
acquiring the pressure in a cylinder (10) of a motor vehicle diesel
engine, of the type comprising a cylinder pressure sensor (30) associated
with the cylinder and means (32) for conditioning the signal delivered by
the sensor (30) as a function of conditioning parameters. The calibration
system comprises means (64) for collecting a signal delivered by the
cylinder pressure sensor (30), an information processing unit (34)
adapted to determine the values of the conditioning parameters as a
function of a polytropic thermodynamic model of the evolution of the
pressure in the cylinder, a reference pressure of the pure compression
phase of the cycle of the cylinder, and the signal delivered by the
pressure sensor (30) and collected by the collecting means (64), and
means (66) for modifying the values of the conditioning parameters in the
acquisition apparatus (28) as a function of the values of the
conditioning parameters determined by the information processing unit
(34).