System and method for controlling torque intervention of hybrid electric vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10449948-B2
Application number	US-201615348384-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 10, 2016
Priority date	Nov 12, 2015
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

A method of controlling torque intervention of a hybrid electric vehicle includes: receiving at least one torque intervention request; determining, by a control unit, a gear shift intervention requested quantity requested for limiting a driving torque of the vehicle during a gear shift and a brake intervention requested quantity requested for limiting the driving torque of the vehicle during a braking operation in response to receiving the at least one torque intervention request; generating, by the control unit, a combined intervention requested quantity based on the gear shift intervention requested quantity and the brake intervention requested quantity; and determining, by the control unit, a type of current intervention based on the combined intervention requested quantity in real time.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling torque intervention of a hybrid electric vehicle, the method comprising:
receiving at least one torque intervention request;
determining, by a control unit, a gear shift intervention requested quantity requested for limiting a driving torque of the vehicle during a gear shift and a brake intervention requested quantity requested for limiting the driving torque of the vehicle during a braking operation in response to receiving the at least one torque intervention request;
generating, by the control unit, a combined intervention requested quantity based on the gear shift intervention requested quantity and the brake intervention requested quantity;
determining, by the control unit, a type of current intervention based on the combined intervention requested quantity; and
controlling, by the control unit, the hybrid electric vehicle based on the combined intervention requested quantity,
wherein determining the gear shift intervention requested quantity and the brake intervention requested quantity further comprises:
comparing, by the control unit, the gear shift intervention requested quantity with the brake intervention requested quantity; and
setting, by the control unit, the combined intervention requested quantity as equal to the smaller of the gear shift intervention requested quantity and the brake intervention requested quantity.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
calculating, by the control unit, a motor basic intervention quantity and an engine basic intervention quantity based on the combined intervention requested quantity;
calculating, by the control unit, an intervention adjustment quantity based on the intervention decrease weighted value; and
generating, by the control unit, a motor final intervention quantity and an engine final intervention quantity based on the motor basic intervention quantity, the engine basic intervention quantity, and the intervention adjustment quantity.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the calculating of the motor basic intervention quantity and the engine basic intervention quantity comprises:
calculating, by the control unit, a driving torque decrease requested quantity according to the combined intervention requested quantity;
calculating, by the control unit, a basic motor torque decrease quantity including a part of the driving torque decrease requested quantity;
calculating, by the control unit, a value corresponding to a sum of the basic motor torque decrease quantity and a motor torque before receiving the at least one torque intervention request; and
setting, by the control unit, the motor basic intervention quantity as equal to the calculated value.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
calculating, by the control unit, the basic motor torque decrease quantity by multiplying a level of contribution of the motor torque to the driving torque before receiving the at least one torque intervention request with the driving torque decrease requested quantity.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the driving torque decrease requested quantity is a difference between the combined intervention requested quantity and the driving torque before receiving the at least one torque intervention request.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the calculating of the motor basic intervention quantity and the engine basic intervention quantity comprises:
calculating, by the control unit, a driving torque decrease requested quantity according to the combined intervention requested quantity;
calculating, by the control unit, a basic engine torque decrease quantity including a part of the driving torque decrease requested quantity;
calculating, by the control unit, a value corresponding to a sum of the basic motor torque decrease quantity and an engine torque before receiving the at least one torque intervention request; and
setting, by the control unit, the engine basic intervention quantity as equal to the calculated.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
calculating, by the control unit, the basic engine torque decrease quantity by multiplying a level of contribution of the engine torque to the driving torque before receiving the at least one torque intervention request with the driving torque decrease requested quantity.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the driving torque decrease requested quantity is a difference between the combined intervention requested quantity and the driving torque before receiving the at least one torque intervention request.

9. The method of claim 2 , wherein the calculating of the intervention adjustment quantity comprises:
selecting, by the control unit, a gear shift intervention decrease weighted value or a brake intervention decrease weighted value as an intervention decrease weighted value according to the type of current intervention;
calculating, by the control unit, a value by subtracting a motor torque before receiving the at least one torque intervention request from a motor charging limited torque;
comparing, by the control unit, the calculated value with a driving torque decrease requested quantity;
determining, by the control unit, the larger of the calculated value and the driving torque decrease requested quantity; and
calculating, by the control unit, the intervention adjustment quantity by multiplying the intervention decrease weighted value with the larger of the calculated value and the driving torque decrease requested quantity.

10. The method of claim 2 , wherein the generating of the motor final intervention quantity and the engine final intervention quantity comprises:
calculating, by the control unit, the motor final intervention quantity by adding the motor basic intervention quantity and the intervention adjustment quantity.

11. The method of claim 2 , wherein the generating of the motor final intervention quantity and the engine final intervention quantity comprises:
calculating, by the control unit, the engine final intervention quantity by subtracting the intervention adjustment quantity from the engine basic intervention quantity.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining of the type of current intervention comprises:
comparing, by the control unit, the gear shift intervention requested quantity and the brake intervention requested quantity;
determining, by the control unit, the smaller of the gear shift intervention requested quantity and the brake intervention requested quantity; and
determining, by the control unit, the type of current intervention based on a request subject which requests the torque intervention corresponding to the smaller of the gear shift intervention requested quantity and the brake intervention requested quantity.

13. A system for controlling torque intervention of a hybrid electric vehicle, the system comprising:
a memory configured to store program instructions; and
a control unit configured to execute the stored program instructions,
wherein when the program instructions are executed, the control unit is configured to:
i) determine a gear shift intervention requested quantity requested for limiting a driving torque of the vehicle during a gear shift and a brake intervention requested quantity requested for limiting the driving torque of the vehicle during a braking operation in response to receiving at least one torque intervention request;
ii) generate a combined intervention requested quantity based on the gear shift intervention requested quantity and the brake intervention requested quantity; and
iii) determine a type of current intervention based on the combined intervention requested quantity,
wherein the

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Do Hee
• Cho Teh Hwan
• Kim Sung Deok
• Du Gwang Il
• Park Joon Young
• Huh Jee Wook

Classifications

• B60W20/10 Primary

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• B60W2710/10

  Change speed gearings · CPC title

• B60W10/08

  including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators · CPC title

• B60W30/18172

  Preventing, or responsive to skidding of wheels · CPC title

• B60W30/19

  Improvement of gear change, e.g. by synchronisation or smoothing gear shift · CPC title