Testing system and method for automotive component using dynamometer

• US 6,434,454 B1
• Filed: 01/09/2002
• Issued: 08/13/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Meidensha
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Meidensha
• Inventors: Suzuki, Masahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Camby, Richard M.
• Application Number:
  US10/040,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20020091471A1
• Time in Patent Office: 216 Days
• Field of Search: 701/29, 701/35, 701/32, 701/36, 701/37, 701/51, 701/53, 701/54, 701/67, 701/83, 701/84, 701/87, 701/93, 738/62, 738/620.41, 738/620.8, 738/623.81
• US Class Current: 701/29
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/02 Details or accessories of testing apparatus

Abstract

In testing system and method for an automotive vehicular component such as an engine, a system monitor section sets required items including a vehicular specification and a running resistance of the vehicle and outputs the set required items to a measurement controlling section, a model generating section is provided in which a simulation model including a vehicular vertical vibration model constituted by a vehicular suspension spring and a tire spring and a spring model of an inertia system is set, a vehicular model execution controlling section executes a vehicular model simulation for the vehicular component to be tested by introducing at least an acceleration signal and a clutch signal from the measurement controlling section and the simulation model from the model generating section and outputs control signals to the inverter and the electronic control section so as to control the vehicular component to be tested.

Claims

1. A testing system for an automotive vehicular component, comprising:

a dynamometer linked to the vehicular component to be tested via a torque meter and a rotary shaft, the dynamometer being controlled by means of an inverter;

a servo driver;

an electronic controlling section, the vehicular component to be tested being controlled by outputs of the servo driver and electronic controlling section;

a system monitor section that monitors and sets required items including a vehicular specification and a running resistance of the vehicle and outputs required items including the vehicular specification and the running resistance to a measurement controlling section;

a model generating section connected to the system monitor section via a transmission path and in which a simulation model including a vehicular vertical vibration model constituted by a vehicular suspension spring and a tire spring and a spring model of an inertia system is set; and

a vehicular model execution controlling section that executes a vehicular model simulation for the vehicular component to be tested by introducing at least an acceleration signal and a clutch signal from the measurement controlling section and the simulation model from the model generating section and outputs control signals to the inverter and the electronic control section so as to control the vehicular component to be tested.

2. A testing system for an automotive vehicular component as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system monitor section is further arranged to execute modifications of a structure of the simulation model and required items including parameters in the simulation model in the model generating section utilizing a Graphical User Interface.

3. A testing system for an automotive vehicular component as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicular component to be tested is an engine of the vehicle and the simulation model comprises a transmission simulation model and wherein the electronic controlling section comprises an engine controller, a transmission controller, and a diagnosis input/output section, the engine controller receiving a coolant temperature signal, a throttle position signal, and an electronic fuel injection signal from the engine and the transmission controller executing an input and output of signals from and to the transmission simulation model.

4. A testing system for an automotive vehicular component as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicular model execution controlling section comprises:

a model unit in which a vibration system dynamic characteristic of a torque transmission system of the vehicle is modeled and is set; and

a resonance suppression control section to execute a resonance vibration suppression control for the torque transmission system.

5. A testing system for an automotive vehicular component as claimed in claim 4, wherein a resonance point of a resonant frequency of the testing system is set to a frequency placed in a vicinity to 100 Hz and the resonance suppression control executed in the resonance suppression control section of the vehicle model execution controller is based on the set resonance point frequency.

6. A testing system for an automotive vehicular component as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vehicular component to be tested is an engine and the servo driver comprises an opening angle controlling section that is provided with a learning function on an actual vehicular driving mode and outputs a stroke opening angle correction value corresponding to a vehicle speed command value from the measurement controlling section when the vehicle speed command value is inputted therein from the measurement controlling section;

an engine characteristic memory section that previously stores an engine output characteristic and outputs a required opening angle predicted value on the basis of the vehicle speed command value and the stroke opening angle correction value;

an engine-and-vehicle-speed conversion section that detects a revolution speed of the engine and outputs an opening angle amendment value which is a deviation value between the detected revolution speed of the engine to be tested and the vehicle speed command value; and

a speed limit section that adds the required opening angle predicted value to the opening angle amendment value to provide an added result value and sets a speed limit value by introducing the vehicle speed command value and the added result value to the opening angle controlling section section.

7. A testing system for an automotive vehicular component as claimed in claim 1, further comprising serial communication devices interposed between the controller and the inverter to provide signal transmission and receipt thereof between the controller and the inverter.

8. A testing method for an automotive vehicular component, comprising:

providing a dynamometer linked to the vehicular component to be tested via a torque meter and a rotary shaft, the dynamometer being controlled by means of an inverter;

providing a servo driver;

providing an electronic controlling section, the vehicular component to be tested being controlled by outputs of the servo driver and electronic controlling section;

setting required items including a vehicular specification and a running resistance of the vehicle, monitoring with a system monitor;

outputting required items including the vehicular specification and the running resistance to a measurement controlling section;

providing a model generating section connected to the system monitor section via a transmission path and in which a simulation model including a vehicular vertical vibration model constituted by a vehicular suspension spring and a tire spring and a spring model of an inertia system is set;

executing a vehicular model simulation for the vehicular component to be tested by introducing at least an acceleration signal and a clutch signal from the measurement controlling section and the simulation model from the model generating section; and

outputting control signals to the inverter and the electronic control section so as to control the vehicular component to be tested.