Gearbox-Integrated Mechatronic Control A New Approach to Handle Powertrain Complexity 1999-01-1055
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.
Citation: Gander, H., Loibl, J., and Ulm, M., "Gearbox-Integrated Mechatronic Control A New Approach to Handle Powertrain Complexity," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-1055, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-1055. Download Citation
Author(s):
Helmut Gander, Josef Loibl, Michael Ulm
Affiliated:
Siemens AG, Automotive Systems
Pages: 12
Event:
International Congress & Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Electronic Transmission Controls-PT-79, 1999 Transmission and Driveline Systems Symposium-SP-1440
Related Topics:
Light trucks
Fuel systems
Transmissions
Mechatronics
Powertrains
Sensors and actuators
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