METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING TARGET VALUES AND/OR TARGET DRIVE TRAIN STATES

• US 20110054725A1
• Filed: 10/22/2008
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Zeppelin - Stiftung der Stadt Friedrichshafen)
• Original Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Zeppelin - Stiftung der Stadt Friedrichshafen)
• Inventors: Blattner, Stefan, Amann, Notker, Mittelberger, Christian, Kaltenbach, Johannes
• Application Number:
  US12/743,790
• Publication Number:
  US 20110054725A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/423 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• 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 2710/0666 Engine torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/083 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors

Abstract

The invention proposes a method for transferring the desired values and/or the desired drive train states of the strategy for the operative functions in a hybrid vehicle, in particular in a parallel hybrid vehicle, comprising a hybrid control system which is divided into at least two functional layers, with one layer being in the form of a strategic layer and the second layer being in the form of an operative layer, in which method, in a first step, the desired drive train state is transmitted from the strategic layer to the operative layer, with the drive train state which is checked and accepted as a target then being transmitted from the operative layer to the strategic layer, with, in a next step, the drive train state which is currently valid after the change or after the switchover to the target state being transmitted from the operative layer to the strategic layer, and with the desired values for continuous variables of the new state then being calculated in the strategic layer and being transmitted to the operative layer.

Claims

1. A method for transferring the desired values and/or the desired drive train states of the strategy for the operative functions in a hybrid vehicle, comprising a hybrid control system which is divided into at least two functional layers, with one layer being in the form of a strategic layer and the second layer being in the form of an operative layer, characterized in that, in a first step, the desired drive train state is transmitted from the strategic layer to the operative layer, with the drive train state which is checked and accepted as a target then being transmitted from the operative layer to the strategic layer, with, in a next step, the drive train state which is currently valid after the change or after the switchover to the target state being transmitted from the operative layer to the strategic layer, and with the desired values for continuous variables of the new state then being calculated in the strategic layer and being transmitted to the operative layer.

2. The method for transferring the desired values and/or the desired drive train states of the strategy for the operative functions in a hybrid vehicle as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that, in the last step, the state to which the desired values apply is also sent to the operative layer.

3. The method for transferring the desired values and/or the desired drive train states of the strategy for the operative functions in a hybrid vehicle as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the currently valid drive train state is ascertained by the operative layer, with this information being used by the strategic layer only to calculate and prespecify the desired values.

4. The method for transferring the desired values and/or the desired drive train states of the strategy for the operative functions in a hybrid vehicle as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the operative layer determines when the switchover to a new drive train state should take place.

5. The method for transferring the desired values and/or the desired drive train states of the strategy for the operative functions in a hybrid vehicle as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that the fastest possible time is used for a change in state.

6. The method for transferring the desired values and/or the desired drive train states of the strategy for the operative functions in a hybrid vehicle as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that a switchover to the target drive train state can also be performed in the operative layer when the target drive train state has not yet been reached.