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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1992
Stephen A Edelen, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Chiau-Chieh Ong, Kokomo, IN (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A position-feedback-control servomechanism for shifting the transmission of a vehicle has both an adaptive proportional-integral-differential controller to compensate for manufacturing variations, etc, and a voltage-compensation system that senses the battery voltage and prevents the gain of a servomechanism drive motor from varying significantly when the battery voltage changes. The motor is preferably a permanent-magnet type to whose terminals the battery voltage is switched on and off. The switching is done by electronic switches that are under the control of a pulse-width-modulated signal. The width of the pulses of the pulse-width-modulated signal is controlled by both a closed-loop position-error signal and a signal derived from an open-loop measurement of the battery voltage.