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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.7.1

Communication Method for Torque Control of Commercial Diesel Engine in Range-Extended Electric Trash Truck  

Park, Young-Kug (Department of Automotive Engineering, Inha Technical College)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.19, no.7, 2018 , pp. 1-8 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper describes new communication methods for transmitting torque commands between the vehicle controller that determines the amount of power generation in a range-extended electric vehicle and the engine controller that performs it. Generally, vehicles use CAN communication, but in this case, the hardware and software of the existing engine controller must be modified. For this reason, it is not easy to apply CAN communication to small and medium sized automotive reorganize companies. Therefore, this research presents a pin-pin communication method for applying the existing mass produced engine controller to range-extended electric vehicles. The pin-pin communication method converts the driver's demand torque control map inside an mass produced engine controller into a virtual accelerator opening position according to the target speed and target torque of the engine, and converts this to a voltage signal for the existing mass produced engine controller to recognize it. The virtual accelerator opening positions are mounted in the form of a control map in the vehicle controller through the reverse conversion process in an offline environment and are determined by the engine generating power requirements and engine optimal operating point algorithm. These algorithms and signal conversion circuits for engine torque transmission have been mounted on the vehicle controller to conduct the virtual accelerator opening position conversion process according to the engine target torque and to establish the virtual accelerator voltage signal using the signal converter.
Keywords
Range-extended electric vehicle; Vehicle control unit; Control algorithm; Pin-Pin communication method; Virtual accelerator opening position; Virtual accelerator voltage signal;
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