Modeling and Control of the Vehicle Transmission System Using Electric Actuators; Integration of a Clutch

The aim of this paper is to present a method to carry out an electrical simulator of the vehicle transmission chain including a clutch by using electric actuators controlled thanks to a dedicated torque control laws. It proposes an equivalent electrical system to the vehicle transmission chain. This equivalent system is easily exploited and can operate under a reduced power scale. This equivalent system allows to carry out various tests on manual, automatic or robotized gearboxes, on clutch or heat engine. Moreover, it allows to carry out a vehicle test benches by optimizing the cost and the time of the development phase of the vehicle transmission system. The proposed method is validated by numerical simulation and measures.