Electric vehicle control method and electric vehicle control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11654778-B2
Application number	US-202017625443-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 6, 2020
Priority date	Mar 6, 2020
Publication date	May 23, 2023
Grant date	May 23, 2023

Abstract

Provided is an electric vehicle control method. The electric vehicle control method includes: a disturbance torque estimation process of calculating a disturbance torque estimation value including an influence of a road surface gradient; a speed parameter acquisition process of acquiring a speed parameter relating to a vehicle speed; a stop process of calculating a stopping basis torque target value so as to converge a torque command value to the disturbance torque estimation value in accordance with a decrease of a speed parameter; and a vibration damping process of calculating a stopping correction torque target value by performing filterring on the stopping basis torque target value. In the vibration damping process, the torque command value is set based on the stopping basis torque target value in a first just-before-stop period set in a relatively high vehicle speed range, and is set based on the stopping correction torque target value in a second just-before-stop period set in a relatively low vehicle speed range.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric vehicle control method for controlling a motor based on a torque command value in an electric vehicle equipped with the motor as a travelling drive source, the electric vehicle control method comprising:
a disturbance torque estimation process of calculating a disturbance torque estimation value including an influence of a road surface gradient;
a speed parameter acquisition process of acquiring a speed parameter relating to a vehicle speed; and
a vehicle state control including a stop process of calculating a stopping basis torque target value so as to converge the torque command value to the disturbance torque estimation value in accordance with a decrease in the speed parameter, and a vibration damping process of calculating a stopping correction torque target value by performing filterring on the stopping basis torque target value, wherein
in the vehicle state control,
the torque command value is set based on the stopping basis torque target value in a first just-before-stop period set in a relatively high vehicle speed range, and
the torque command value is set based on the stopping correction torque target value in a second just-before-stop period set in a relatively low vehicle speed range.

2. The electric vehicle control method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a basis torque target value calculation process of calculating a basis torque target value based on a required drive force for the electric vehicle, wherein
the first just-before-stop period is set as a vehicle speed range equal to or lower than a first vehicle speed threshold value at which the stopping basis torque target value is equal to the basis torque target value, and exceeding a second vehicle speed threshold value lower than the first vehicle speed threshold value, and
the second just-before-stop period is set as a speed range equal to or lower than the second vehicle speed threshold value.

3. The electric vehicle control method according to claim 2 , wherein
in the vibration damping process,
in an initial calculation timing after a transition from the first just-before-stop period to the second just-before-stop period, a previous value of an input value and a previous value of an output value during filterring for calculating the stopping correction torque target value are initialized by the stopping basis torque target value calculated at the calculation timing.

4. The electric vehicle control method according to claim 2 , wherein
in the vibration damping process,
when the torque command value is set based on the stopping correction torque target value, the setting is maintained until the stopping basis torque target value is less than the basis torque target value.

5. An electric vehicle control device configured to control a motor based on a torque command value in an electric vehicle equipped with the motor as a travelling drive source, the electric vehicle control device comprising:
a disturbance torque estimation unit configured to calculate a disturbance torque estimation value including an influence of a road surface gradient;
a speed parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a speed parameter relating to a vehicle speed; and
a vehicle state control unit configured to execute a stop process of calculating a stopping basis torque target value so as to converge the torque command value to the disturbance torque estimation value in accordance with a decrease in the speed parameter, and a vibration damping process of calculating a stopping correction torque target value by performing filterring on the stopping basis torque target value, wherein
the vehicle state control unit is configured to
set the torque command value based on the stopping basis torque target value in a first just-before-stop period set in a relatively high vehicle speed range, and
set the torque command value based on the stopping correction torque target value in a second just-before-stop period set in a relatively low vehicle speed range.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Komatsu Hiroyuki
• Motosugi Jun
• Sawada Akira
• Ito Yui

Classifications

• B60L2240/12

  Speed · CPC title

• Y02T10/72

  Electric energy management in electromobility · CPC title

• B60L2240/463

  Torque · CPC title

• B60L2240/642

  Slope of road · CPC title

• B60L2240/423

  Torque · CPC title