Brp-Rotax Gmbh & Co Kg

Michael Kaar

Roman Schmied

Petra Wiesinger

Robert Ebner

Verena Wolfsegger

David Fillion

A method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle. The method includes determining a torque of an engine of the vehicle; performing at least one transmission operation comprising actuating a clutch of the transmission by increasing or decreasing a pressure of transmission fluid routed to the clutch; during actuating: determining an input speed and output speed of the clutch; determining that the clutch is slipping; while the clutch is slipping, recording the pressure of transmission fluid routed to the clutch; calculating a torque transmitted by the clutch; associating the pressure of the transmission fluid routed to the clutch with the torque transmitted by the clutch to generate a clutch pressure-torque pairing; iteratively recording the clutch pressure-torque pairing for torque values; continuously calculating an adaptive pressure-torque function of the clutch based on clutch pressure-torque pairings; and controlling the transmission based on the adaptive pressure-torque function of the clutch.

Method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle

A method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle includes: sensing a speed of the vehicle; sensing an acceleration of the vehicle along three spatial axes; determining that the vehicle is in a jump state associated with the vehicle being off a ground surface, the jump state being defined at least in part by the acceleration of the vehicle along the three spatial axes and the speed of the vehicle; and controlling the transmission according to a jump strategy in response to determining that the vehicle is in the jump state. Other methods for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle are also contemplated.

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Michael Kaar