Gearbox-Integrated Mechatronic Control A New Approach to Handle Powertrain Complexity

2000-01-1159

01/06/2000

Event
SAE 2000 World Congress
Authors Abstract
Content
Current world-wide trends in powertrain development for passenger cars and light trucks indicate a diversification of engine operational principles and gear-box automation. Both for the functional and physical domain of the relevant controllers this may lead to a severely increased number of control unit variants. The paper proposes a torque information based controller communication to fight functional complexity. A physical integration of the local controller to the engine / gear-box resulting in mechatronic control modules further-on cuts the variants. These ideas have been set into mass-production already by integrated air/fuel systems (IAFS). For the transmission this same approach now has been realized in mass-production by the first mechatronic transmission module which integrates the electronics, valve-body and sensors of a new 5 speed transmission.
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12
Citation
Gander, H., Loibl, J., and Ulm, M., "Gearbox-Integrated Mechatronic Control A New Approach to Handle Powertrain Complexity," SAE Technical Paper 2000-01-1159, 2000, https://doi.org/10.4271/2000-01-1159.
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Published
Jan 6, 2000
Product Code
2000-01-1159
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English