Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

General Electric Company

Ford Motor Company Limited

Mark Anthony Tascillo

Robert A Thompson

Richard E Smith

James Edward Snider

Pravinchandra Popatal Chokshi

Thomas George Leone

Kenneth James Miller

Walter Joseph Ortmann

William Charles Ruona

Norman Hiam Opolsky

Colby Jason Buckman

Anya Lynn Tascillo

Ashish Naidu

John Raymond Schultz

Damian J Tedone

Victor A Skormin

A vehicle includes an electric machine and a controller. The controller is programmed to, in response to releasing an accelerator pedal during a first driving scenario that is based on a first set of navigation data, increase regenerative braking torque of the electric machine to a first value. The controller is further programmed to, in response to releasing the accelerator pedal during a second driving scenario that is based on a second set of navigation data, increase the regenerative braking torque of the electric machine to a second value that is less than the first value.

Regenerative braking control system for a hybrid or electric vehicle

Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing an engine thermal encapsulation positioned around a powertrain of a vehicle. In one example, degradation of the thermal encapsulation may be determined by comparing a temperature sampled via a sensor during engine off condition with an expected temperature.

Thermal engine encapsulation diagnostic

A system and method for powertrain testing of a powertrain under load using a computer network includes a plurality of computer nodes for monitoring and adjustably controlling the powertrain and applied load for acquiring powertrain data relating to powertrain performance. A shared memory is connected to the plurality of computer nodes for receiving in real time the powertrain data generated by each of the plurality of computer nodes. An integrating computer node is connected to the shared memory for receiving in real time powertrain data and is arranged to send different commands to the plurality of computer nodes as part of a powertrain testing process. Further, the present invention allows for the powertrain testing of a powertrain in deterministic real time to develop the powertrain, as well as create a powertrain calibration.

Real-time multiprocessing computer infrastructure for automated testing

In one embodiment of the present invention, a fault detection system for a dynamometer includes circuitry for measuring the armature voltage of the dynamometer. The voltage can used as an indicator of dynamometer speed to prevent reverse rotation of the dynamometer and to prevent overspeed operation of the dynamometer.

Dynamometer fault detection system

A motor vehicle related operating signal, such as a torque signal produced by operation of an engine of the motor vehicle, is monitored to produce a frequency signature for the vehicle. The frequency signature is filtered by a fuzzy spectral filter to extract a frequency membership for the vehicle which is utilized to generate characteristic signals representative of the vehicle. Signals representative of vehicle inertia (J), vehicle horsepower (HP) and relative vehicle temperature (RVT) are extracted by a radial basis function (RBF) neural network. These characteristic signals are then used to control the vehicle directly via a powertrain control module (PCM) or via a robot driver for vehicle test purposes. For robot control, an anticipated throttle lag and an anticipated brake lag are generated and used to more accurately and repeatedly control the robot to simulate a human driver in following acceleration curves for vehicle testing purposes.

System and method for distinguishing and characterizing motor vehicles

A method of measuring shot peening coverage includes correlation analysis of surface line data. The method comprises the use of cross correlation of two or more parallel profile traces of a shot peened surface to produce a numeric indication of relative part coverage.

Measurement of shot peening coverage by correlation analysis of surface

This invention relates to measuring shot peening coverage by impact dent characterization. Such methods of this type employ a non-destructive, automated computer analysis by analyzing dent characteristics to determine shot coverage of a particular surface.

Measurment of shot peening coverage by impact dent characterization

This invention relates to methods for measuring surface treatment coverage, and more particularly, to such methods for measuring shot peening coverage. Such methods generally employ an automated computer analysis of the peened surface coverage by analyzing surface line traces to determine when a particular surface has been surface hardened enough.

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Canton, MI, United States of America

Mark Anthony Tascillo