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This paper suggests a method to formulate the driveline torque command for vehicles that use electric motor as part of their sources for providing driving power. The shape of the driveline torque profile notably influences the drivability criteria of the vehicle, and among them, driveline NVH and responsiveness are often tradeoffs for each other. Hence the real-time computed driveline torque profiling (DTP) enables formulation of the effective torque command at any given time to simultaneously satisfy both NVH and responsiveness criteria. Such task is fulfilled by using a shaft distortion prediction model based on a motor speed observer. A compensation torque command based on the amount of shaft distortion is formulated to prevent the shaft distortion with minimum effort. The effectiveness of the suggested driveline torque profiling method is verified using an actual vehicle, and the vehicle NVH and responsiveness are numerically assessed for comparison.

This paper examines the effect of pulse-and-glide (PnG) driving strategies on the fuel efficiency when applied on parallel HEVs. Several PnG strategies are proposed, and these include the electrical, mechanical, and combined PnG strategies. The electrical PnG strategy denotes the hybrid powertrain control tactics in which the battery is charged or discharged according to the power demanded while maintaining the constant vehicle speed. On the other hand, the mechanical PnG strategy denotes the powertrain control tactics in which the vehicle accelerates or decelerates according to the power load while minimizing the battery usage. The combined PnG strategy involves both electrical and mechanical strategies to find a balanced point in between them. Here, a tradeoff relationship between the fuel efficiency and the vehicle drivability related to the tracking performance of the desired target speed is revealed.