Method for controlling an exhaust gas recirculation in an internal combustion engine

Method for controlling an exhaust gas recirculation in an internal combustion engine (1), wherein a characteristic for an exhaust gas recirculation rate operating variable of the internal combustion engine (1) is selected, the function of a temperature and / or pressure in an air supply of the internal combustion engine (1) according to merging of fresh air and exhaust gas is corrected, and wherein said operating parameter is adjusted to a desired value, characterized in that the exhaust gas recirculation rate is used as a control variable, wherein the exhaust gas recirculation rate is calculated as the ratio of a recirculated exhaust gas mass flow and a filling of the internal combustion engine (1) and wherein the exhaust gas mass flow is determined from the difference between the filling and a fresh air mass flow, that the filling from a map of the volumetric efficiency λ that the fresh air mass flow to an air mass measuring device (5), in particular a hot-film air-mass meter is measured, that the characteristic diagram for the determination of ...