Clutch control method and clutch control filter for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10100884-B2
Application number	US-201615331255-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2016
Priority date	May 20, 2016
Publication date	Oct 16, 2018
Grant date	Oct 16, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a clutch control method, including: a variation setting step of setting, by a controller, a current torque variation depending on a difference between a just previous clutch control torque and a clutch target torque; a limit determining step of determining whether a jerk of a clutch control torque need not be limited when the clutch control torque is reduced and then is increased or when the clutch control torque is continuously reduced by using the current torque variation and a just previous torque variation; a direction setting step and a limit setting step to determine a final torque variation based on the outcome of the limit determining step; and a control torque calculating step of calculating the clutch control torque to control a clutch.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A clutch control method, comprising:
a variation setting step of setting, by a controller, a current torque variation depending on a difference between a just previous clutch control torque and a clutch target torque;
a limit determining step of determining, by the controller, whether a jerk of a clutch control torque need not be limited when the clutch control torque is reduced and then is increased or when the clutch control torque is continuously reduced by using the current torque variation and a just previous torque variation;
when the jerk of the clutch control torque need not be limited as a result of performing the limit determining step, a direction setting step of determining, by the controller, the current torque variation set in the variation setting step as a final torque variation;
when the jerk of the clutch control torque needs to be limited as a result of performing the limit determining step, a limit setting step of determining the current torque variation as the final torque variation by limiting, by the controller, the current torque variation to an upper bound of the jerk that is a limit in which a variation of the clutch control torque is increased and a lower bound of the jerk that is a limit in which the variation of the clutch control torque is reduced; and
a control torque calculating step of calculating the clutch control torque to control a clutch by adding, by the controller, the final torque variation to the just previous clutch control torque.

2. The clutch control method of claim 1 , wherein in the limit determining step, when the current torque variation is larger than 0 and the just previous torque variation is equal to or less than 0, the controller determines that the clutch control torque is reduced and then increased, and the controller determines that the clutch control torque is continuously reduced when the current torque variation is equal to or less than 0.

3. The clutch control method of claim 1 , wherein in the limit setting step, the upper bound of the jerk is smaller than the lower bound of the jerk.

4. The clutch control method of claim 3 , wherein the limit setting step includes:
a minimum value selecting process of selecting a minimum value by comparing the current torque variation with a value obtained by adding the upper bound of the jerk to the just previous torque variation; and
a maximum value selecting process of selecting a maximum value by comparing a value obtained by subtracting the lower bound of the jerk from the just previous torque variation with the minimum value selected in the minimum value selecting process, and
wherein the maximum value selected in the maximum value selecting process becomes the final torque variation.

5. A clutch control filter for a vehicle, comprising:
a variation setting map including information of a current torque variation depending on a difference between a just previous clutch control torque and a clutch target torque;
a limit determining unit configured to receive the current torque variation and a just previous torque variation to determine whether a jerk of a clutch control torque need not be limited when the clutch control torque is reduced and then is increased or when the clutch control torque is continuously reduced;
a direction setting unit configured to determine the current torque variation from the variation setting map as a final torque variation, when the limit determining unit determines that the jerk of the clutch control torque need not be limited;
a limit setting unit configured to determine the current torque variation as the final torque variation by limiting the current torque variation to an upper bound of the jerk that is a limit in which a variation of the clutch control torque is increased and a lower bound of the jerk that is a limit in which the variation of the clutch control torque is reduced when the limit determining unit determines that the jerk of the clutch control torque needs to be limited; and
a control torque calculation unit configured to calculate the clutch control torque for controlling the clutch by adding the final torque variation to the just previous clutch control torque.

6. The clutch control filter of claim 5 , wherein the limit determining unit determines that the clutch control torque is reduced and then increased when the current torque variation is larger than 0 and the just previous torque variation is equal to or less than 0, and the limit determining unit determines that the clutch control torque is continuously reduced when the current torque variation is equal to or less than 0.

7. The clutch control filter of claim 5 , wherein the upper bound of the jerk of the limit setting unit is set to be smaller than the lower bound of the jerk.

8. The clutch control filter of claim 7 , wherein the limit setting unit includes:
a minimum value selection unit configured to select a minimum value by comparing the current torque variation with a value obtained by adding the upper bound of the jerk to the just previous torque variation; and
a maximum value selection unit configured to select a maximum value by comparing a value obtained by subtracting the lower bound of the jerk from the just previous torque variation with the minimum value selected in the minimum value selection unit, and
wherein the maximum value selected in the maximum value selection unit becomes the final torque variation.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Jin Sung
• Nam Ju Hyun

Classifications

• F16D2500/70252

  Clutch torque · CPC title

• F16D2500/50287

  Torque control · CPC title

• B60W2030/203

  related or induced by the clutch · CPC title

• Y10T477/75

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• B60W10/02

  including control of driveline clutches · CPC title