Vehicle system and method for adapting lift pedal regeneration

• US 9,545,849 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2014
• Issued: 01/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Perkins, William Paul, Martin, Douglas Raymond, Miller, Kenneth James
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUYNH, LUAT T
• Application Number:
  US14/491,062
• Publication Number:
  US 20160082842A1
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• Field of Search: 701/22, 180/65.21, 180/65.285, 903/903
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2009 for braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/26 by pedal actuation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/18 Controlling the braking effect B60L7/12, B60L7/14, B60L7/16 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 1/10 by utilising wheel movement for accumulating energy, e.g. driving air compressors
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2220/02 Driver type; Driving style; Driver adaptive features
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/172 Determining control parameters used in the regulation, e.g. by calculations involving measured or detected parameters B60T8/17551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/885 using electrical circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, controlling an electrified vehicle by increasing lift pedal regeneration in response to exceeding a system regeneration limit.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

controlling an electrified vehicle by increasing lift pedal regeneration in response to exceeding a system regeneration limit; and

commanding a torque command signal that is derived from the increased life pedal regeneration to an electric machine to decelerate the electrified vehicle at a desired deceleration rate during a subsequent lift pedal event.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the controlling step includes incrementally increasing or decreasing the lift pedal regeneration if driver braking behavior meets a predefined criteria.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the predefined criteria includes whether friction brakes of the electrified vehicle have been applied during a predefined number of key cycles.

4. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the predefined criteria includes whether the system regeneration limit has been exceeded during a predefined amount of time or predefined number of braking events.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the controlling step includes:

monitoring a braking event; and

determining whether the system regeneration limit was exceeded during the braking event.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the determining step includes determining whether friction brakes of the electrified vehicle were applied during the braking event.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the controlling step includes increasing the lift pedal regeneration only if the increased lift pedal regeneration does not exceed a predefined maximum lift pedal regeneration.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, comprising:

decelerating the electrified vehicle at a first deceleration rate in response to a first lift pedal event; and

decelerating the electrified vehicle at a second deceleration rate that is greater than the first deceleration rate during a second lift pedal event in response to exceeding the system regeneration limit of the electrified vehicle during the first lift pedal event.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the controlling step includes decreasing the lift pedal regeneration if the system regeneration limit was not exceeded during a predefined amount of time prior to the decreasing step.

10. A method, comprising:

controlling an electrified vehicle by increasing lift pedal regeneration in response to exceeding a system regeneration limit; and

decelerating the electrified vehicle based on the increased lift pedal regeneration during a subsequent lift pedal event.

11. The method, comprising:

controlling an electrified vehicle by increasing lift pedal regeneration in response to exceeding a system regeneration limit, wherein the controlling strp includes incrementally increasing the life pedal regeneration each time the system regeneration limit is exceeded.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the step of incrementally increasing the lift pedal regeneration includes increasing the lift pedal regeneration by a predefined amount each time the system regeneration limit is exceeded.

13. The method comprising:

determining a location of the electrified vehicle;

determining whether the system regeneration limit was previously exceeded at the location; and

controlling the electrified vehicle by increasing lift pedal regeneration in response to exceeding the system regeneration limit.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, comprising:

performing the controlling step if the system regeneration limit was previously exceeded at the location.

15. A vehicle system, comprising:

an electric machine; and

a control module in communication with said electric machine and configured to increase a negative torque demand commanded to said electric machine in response to exceeding a system regeneration limit during a braking event of said vehicle system, and wherein said control module is configured to decrease said negative torque demand commanded to said electric machine if said system regeneration limit is not exceeded during said braking and a driver braking behavior meets a predefined criteria.

16. The vehicle system as recited in claim 15, comprising an accelerator pedal that communicates a pedal position signal to said control module.

17. The vehicle system as recited in claim 15, comprising a brake pedal that communicates a pedal position signal to said control module.

18. The vehicle system as recited in claim 15, wherein said negative torque demand is derived from a power calculation associated with lift pedal regeneration.