Clutch Displacement Servo Control in Gear-Shifting Process of Electric Vehicles Based on Two-speed DCT

Clutch Displacement Servo Control in Gear-Shifting Process of Electric Vehicles Based on Two-speed DCT

Xi Liu* Ren He Yongdao Song

School of Automotive & Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China

School of Automotive & Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China

Shanghai Automobile Gear Works, Jiading 201807, China

Corresponding Author Email: 
xiliu@ujs.edu.cn
Page: 
139-154
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DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.18280/ama_c.720203
Received: 
9 May 2017
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Accepted: 
12 June 2017
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OPEN ACCESS

Abstract: 

Two-speed dual-clutch transmission (DCT) is an ideal transmission mode for electric vehicles. After analysing the power transmission system of electric vehicles installed with two-speed DCT, this paper constructs the lever spring model of dual dry clutch, torque transmission model of friction plate, and clutch actuator model, and utilizes the models to identify the relationship between torque transmission and release bearing displacement of the clutch. According to the nonlinear features of the clutch, the author proposed the strategy of clutch displacement servo control under the inspiration of single-neuron adaptive PID compensation, which improves clutch control accuracy by intelligent compensation based on mathematical model control. Finally, an actual vehicle test was carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy. Suffice it to say that the study provides a reference for the control of electric vehicle transmission system.

Keywords: 

Electric vehicles, Dual-clutch transmission (DCT), Proportional flow control valve, Single-neuron adaptive PID control.

1. Introduction
2. Two-Speed DCT System of Electric Vehicles
3. Dry Clutches and Proportional Flow Control Valve
4. Clutch Displacement Servo Control
Conclusions
Acknowledgement

Supported by Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (13KJA580001), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20150515), Scientific Research Starting Foundation for the senior of Jiangsu university(14JDG155).

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