Clutch control method of hybrid vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9869354-B2
Application number	US-201615332686-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 24, 2016
Priority date	May 20, 2016
Publication date	Jan 16, 2018
Grant date	Jan 16, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a clutch control method of a hybrid vehicle of the including an entering condition determining step in which a controller determines whether shifting is being performed during regenerative braking; an error calculating step in which the controller calculates a torque error by subtracting observer torque, which is clutch transfer torque calculated by a clutch torque estimator receiving transmission input torque and motor speed, from map torque, which is clutch transfer torque calculated based on a clutch transfer torque map for clutch actuator strokes learned in advance, when shifting is being performed during regenerative braking; a correcting step in which the controller corrects the clutch transfer torque map for the clutch actuator strokes using the torque error calculated in the error calculating step; and a clutch control step in which the controller controls a clutch using the map corrected in the correcting step.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A clutch control method of a hybrid vehicle, the method comprising:
an entering condition determining step in which a controller determines whether shifting is being performed during regenerative braking;
an error calculating step in which the controller calculates a torque error by subtracting an observer torque, which is a clutch transfer torque calculated by a clutch torque estimator receiving a transmission input torque and a motor speed, from a map torque, which is a clutch transfer torque calculated based on a clutch transfer torque map for clutch actuator strokes learned in advance, when shifting is being performed during regenerative braking;
a correcting step in which the controller corrects the clutch transfer torque map for the clutch actuator strokes using the torque error calculated in the error calculating step; and
a clutch control step in which the controller controls a clutch using the clutch transfer torque map corrected in the correcting step.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the error calculating step calculates the map torque according to a current clutch actuator stroke from the clutch transfer torque map and uses a current motor torque for the transmission input torque that is inputted to the clutch torque estimator to calculate the observer torque.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein in the correcting step, an offset is obtained by multiplying the torque error by a gain and a curve of the clutch transfer torque to a clutch actuator stroke of the clutch transfer torque map is corrected by changing an inclination of the curve with respect to a touch point of the curve to form the offset calculated in the offset calculating step.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising a repetitive determining step that recalculates the torque error using the map torque calculated from the corrected map and the observer torque updated after the correcting step, repeats the correcting step when the recalculated torque error is greater than or equal to a reference value, and performs the clutch control step when the recalculated torque error is less than the reference value, between the correcting step and the clutch control step.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the gain in the correcting step is greater than 0 and is less than or equal to 1.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Ho Young

Classifications

• B60K6/48 Primary

  Parallel type · CPC title

• F16D2500/10412

  Transmission line of a vehicle · CPC title

• F16D2500/30806

  Engaged transmission ratio · CPC title

• F16D2500/1066

  Hybrid · CPC title

• F16D2500/70252

  Clutch torque · CPC title