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Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2011
Applicants:

Houchun Xia, Troy, MI (US);

Robert L. Morris, Milford, MI (US);

Inventors:

Houchun Xia, Troy, MI (US);

Robert L. Morris, Milford, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An example vehicle includes a motor and a gearbox. A controller is configured to identify oscillation peaks of a performance signal representing the rotational speed of the motor, the input speed of the gearbox, or the amount of torque generated by the motor or provided to the gearbox. The controller is configured to simultaneously detect unstable regular and irregular oscillations of the performance signal given the oscillation peaks identified and substantially dampen the unstable oscillations detected. An example method may include determining a mean of the performance signal and defining peak values, including peak moving average values or filtered peak values, representing a magnitude of at least two oscillation peaks. The method further includes simultaneously detecting the unstable regular and irregular oscillations of the performance signal using the defined values and substantially dampening the unstable oscillations.


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