Title: Dynamics and control of gear upshift in automated manual transmissions

Authors: Bingzhao Gao; Xiaohui Lu; Hong Chen; Xintian Lu; Jun Li

Addresses: State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University (Campus NanLing), Renmin Str. 5988, Changchun 130025, China ' Department of Control Science and Engineering, Jilin University (Campus NanLing), Renmin Str. 5988, Changchun 130025, China ' State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Jilin University (Campus NanLing), Renmin Str. 5988, Changchun 130025, China ' R & D Center, FAW Group Corporation, 35 Chuangye Street, Changchun 130011, China ' R & D Center, FAW Group Corporation, 35 Chuangye Street, Changchun 130011, China

Abstract: Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) is suitable for heavy-duty vehicles to offer an easy drive and good fuel efficiency. After the dynamics and control problems of gear upshift of AMT are described in detail, Model Predictive Control (MPC), together with a shaft torque observer, is adopted to address these challenging control problems. It is demonstrated through simulations that by using the proposed control scheme of gear shifting, a very short torque interruption time can be achieved, while the shift shock is kept small enough.

Keywords: AMT; automated manual transmission; gear shift; vehicle clutch; MPC; model predictive control; torque estimation; heavy vehicles; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVD.2013.055533

International Journal of Vehicle Design, 2013 Vol.63 No.1, pp.61 - 83

Accepted: 01 Jul 2012
Published online: 30 Sep 2014 *

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