Control method for coasting of eco-friendly vehicle

• US 10,442,434 B2
• Filed: 12/11/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Huh, Jee Wook, Sohn, Dong Jin, Kim, Do Hee
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Tyler J
• Application Number:
  US15/838,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20190001984A1
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2310/00 Arrangements, adaptations or methods for cruise controls
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/172 Driving mode indication
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/174 Economic driving
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/026 of lock-up clutches
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/00 Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/15 Control strategies specially adapted for achieving a particular effect
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2030/18081 With torque flow from driveshaft to engine, i.e. engine being driven by vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/12 Brake pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2552/15 Road slope, i.e. the inclination of a road segment in the longitudinal direction
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2552/20 Road profile, i.e. the change in elevation or curvature of a plurality of continuous road segments
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2555/60 Traffic rules, e.g. speed limits or right of way
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/083 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2720/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2720/103 Speed profile
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18072 : Coasting
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18127 : Regenerative braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/0097 : Predicting future conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 : Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2200/92 : Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2300/18066 : Coasting
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2300/181 : Hill climbing or descending
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2300/18125 : Regenerative braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2300/91 : Battery charging
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 : Engine management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/60 : Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 : Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 : Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/84 : Data processing systems or methods, management, administration
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/93 : Conjoint control of different elements

Abstract

A coasting control method of an eco-friendly vehicle includes steps of acquiring deceleration event information and road gradient information in front of a vehicle during driving, by a controller in the vehicle, determining target vehicle speed in a deceleration event in consideration of road gradient based on the deceleration event information and the road gradient information, by the controller, determining expected vehicle speed while the vehicle is decelerated in a coasting state, based on current vehicle speed, by the controller, determining a start location for starting coasting based on target vehicle speed in consideration of current vehicle speed of the vehicle and the road gradient and expected vehicle speed at a target location as a deceleration event location, by the controller, and operating an information provider for coasting guidance and coasting induction to a driver at a start location, by the controller.

Claims

1. A coasting control method of an eco-friendly vehicle, the method comprising steps of:

acquiring, by a controller of the vehicle, deceleration event information and road gradient information in front of a vehicle during driving;

determining, by the controller, target vehicle speed in a deceleration event in consideration of road gradient based on the deceleration event information and the road gradient information;

determining, by the controller, expected vehicle speed estimated on the basis of current vehicle speed of the vehicle while the vehicle is decelerated from the current vehicle speed in a coasting state;

determining, by the controller, a start location for starting coasting based on target vehicle speed in consideration of current vehicle speed of the vehicle and the road gradient and expected vehicle speed at a target location as a deceleration event location;

operating, by the controller, an information provider for coasting guidance and coasting induction to a driver at a start location; and

controlling, by the controller, a creep torque of a driving motor during coasting of the vehicle in a brake pedal and accelerator pedal off state.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the deceleration event information is regulated target vehicle speed that is predetermined for each target location and deceleration event;

and

wherein the step of determining target vehicle speed comprises determining a gradient factor corresponding to the regulated target vehicle speed and the road gradient and determining the target vehicle speed in consideration of the road gradient by multiplying the regulated target vehicle speed by the determined gradient factor.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the road gradient is road average gradient to the target location from a current vehicle location acquired during driving.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step of determining expected vehicle speed, the controller determines the expected vehicle speed as a speed value obtained by compensating for flatland expected vehicle speed as expected vehicle speed while the vehicle is decelerated in a coasting state from current vehicle speed on flatland by offsetting the speed value by an offset value calculated using load torque based on road gradient and creep torque information based on vehicle speed;

and

wherein flatland expected vehicle speed information for each current vehicle speed is pre-input and stored in the controller.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the offset value is calculated by expression E1 below:

E1;

Offset=[(C/D value of vehicle×

tire dynamic radius×

F1)+(load torque×

F2)+(basic creep torque×

power train efficiency)]

where the C/D value is a vehicle unique value that is pre-input and stored in the controller and a coast down value corresponding to vehicle driving resistance, F1 and F2 are factor values pre-input and stored in the controller, and a tire dynamic radius and power train efficiency are vehicle unique values pre-input and stored in the controller.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, in the step of determining a start location, the controller calculates target location vehicle speed difference as a difference between the target vehicle speed in consideration of the road gradient and the expected vehicle speed at the target location, and determines a start location corresponding to the current vehicle speed of the vehicle and the target location vehicle speed difference.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a change location based on target vehicle speed and deceleration event information in consideration of the road gradient, and the determined start location, by the controller,

wherein the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor is a control operation performed by the controller, comprising:

a feedforward control operation of controlling the driving motor using coasting motor torque as a value obtained by adding an additional torque determined according to the current vehicle speed and the target vehicle speed to basic creep torque according to vehicle speed until the vehicle reaches the determined change location from the determined start location; and

a feedback control operation of controlling a coasting motor torque of the driving motor such that vehicle speed is the target vehicle speed in consideration of the road gradient until the vehicle reaches the target location from the determined change location.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the feedforward control operation comprises determining the coasting motor torque as a value obtained by adding an additional torque determined according to a current vehicle location and the target vehicle speed to basic creep torque determined according to vehicle speed.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the additional torque is determined as a value corresponding to a distance between the current vehicle location and the change location and the target vehicle speed.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein, during the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor, when the driver manipulates the brake pedal, the controller reduces the coasting motor torque of the driving motor while maintaining a ratio of the basic creep torque and the additional torque during regenerative braking.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the controller controls the driving motor using the basic creep torque as the coasting motor torque when the regenerative braking is limited in a state in which the driver manipulates the brake pedal.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the controller controls the driving motor using the basic creep torque as the coasting motor torque when the brake pedal is manipulated and then is in a pedal off state.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controller does not perform the step of operating an information provider and does not perform the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor on a downhill road on which a road average gradient to the target location from the determined start location is smaller than a first set value or on an uphill road on which the road average gradient is greater than a second set value.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controller does not perform the step of operating an information provider and does not perform the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor on a downhill road on which road gradient of a start location is smaller than a third set value when the vehicle reaches the determined start location or on an uphill road on which the road gradient of the start location is greater than a fourth set value.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controller does not perform the step of operating an information provider and does not perform the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor when the controller calculates a gradient difference between road gradient at the determined start location and road average gradient to the target location from the determined start location and an absolute value of the calculated gradient difference is greater than a fifth set value.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controller does not perform the step of operating an information provider and does not perform the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor when a distance to the determined start location or a vehicle location at which the start location is determined, from the target location, is smaller than a sixth set value.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the sixth set value is determined according to the target vehicle speed in consideration of the road gradient and an event type.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the controller does not perform the step of determining target vehicle speed, does not perform the step of determining expected vehicle speed, does not perform the step of determining a start location, does not perform the step of operating an information provider, and does not perform the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor when current vehicle speed is less than a preset lower speed limit or greater than a preset upper speed limit during vehicle driving.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein a maximum value and a minimum value of creep torque are preset in the controller, and

the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor comprises limiting the creep torque of the driving motor to the preset maximum value and minimum value.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle is a hybrid electric vehicle;

and

wherein lock-up charging for charging a battery by a driving motor is prevented in a state in which an engine is turned on and in a state in which an engine clutch is locked up, in the step of controlling a creep torque of a driving motor by the controller.