JP2011242226A - Vehicle own-weight measuring apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle own-weight measuring apparatus capable of correctly measuring the own weight of a vehicle even with its engine rotating at high speed.SOLUTION: The apparatus is provided with: a pre-gear-change data storage part 5 for repeatedly storing data of a driving force and data of acceleration both before a gear change; an in-gear-change data storage part 6 for repeatedly storing, during the gear change, data of an in-gear-change acceleration; an own-weight calculation part 7 for calculating an own weight on the basis of an average driving force before the gear change as well as of a difference between an average acceleration before the gear change and an average acceleration during the gear change, using the data stored by the pre-gear-change data storage part 5 and the in-gear-change data storage part 6; and a part for suspending data storage at the high rotation 8 which suspends storing of data at the pre-gear-change data storage part 5 when an engine speed before the gear change equals or exceeds a governing starting number of rotations.

Description

  The present invention relates to a vehicle weight measuring device that measures the weight of a vehicle from driving force and acceleration, and relates to a vehicle weight measuring device that can accurately measure the weight of the vehicle even when the engine rotates at a high speed.

  In a vehicle equipped with an engine and a transmission, it is known that the weight (self-weight) of a vehicle can be measured by dividing the driving force before the shift by the difference between the acceleration before the shift and the acceleration during the shift (Patent Document 1). .

  In the vehicle weight measurement device using this principle, the average driving force and the average acceleration before the shift are calculated before the shift, and then the average acceleration during the shift is calculated when the shift is started. The weight is calculated from the previous average driving force, the average acceleration before the shift, and the average acceleration during the shift. In such a vehicle self-weight measuring device, in order to accurately measure the self-weight, it is important to accurately obtain the driving force. The driving force output from the engine is calculated from the fuel injection amount and the engine speed.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-13620 Japanese Patent No. 3693097 JP 2002-340660 A JP 2008-298011 A

  By the way, in the diesel engine, the governing start speed is set so that the engine speed does not reach the rated maximum speed, and the fuel injection amount is not regulated if the engine speed is less than the governing start speed. According to the accelerator opening, the fuel injection amount is regulated when the engine speed becomes equal to or higher than the governing start speed. In an area equal to or higher than the starting speed of the governing, the driving force greatly fluctuates with respect to a minute fluctuation of the engine speed.

  As shown in FIG. 5, when looking at the same accelerator opening, when the engine speed is low, the driving force gradually increases as the engine speed increases, and when the engine speed is medium and high, the engine speed increases. The driving force increases very slowly as the number increases. However, if the engine speed is equal to or higher than the governing start speed, the driving force rapidly decreases as the engine speed increases.

  As described above, in the engine rotation speed region that is equal to or higher than the governing rotation speed, the driving force fluctuation is large with respect to the minute fluctuation of the engine rotation speed, and thus the driving force calculation error is large.

  Therefore, a so-called pulling operation before shifting, that is, an operation of increasing the engine speed by largely depressing the accelerator pedal before shifting, and shifting after reaching a high speed at which the engine speed becomes equal to or greater than the governing start speed. When this is done, the calculation error of the driving force before the shift becomes large, and as a result, the measurement error of the own weight becomes large.

  In automatic gear shifting, the engine speed is rarely controlled to be higher than the starting speed of governing, but in manual gear shifting, the engine is often pulled up to a high speed until just before the gear shifting, and the engine is often shifted up. It may occur that the rotational speed is equal to or higher than the governing start rotational speed. For this reason, the dead weight may not be accurately measured. It is desirable that the weight of the engine can be accurately measured even when the engine speed is high.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems and provide a vehicle dead weight measuring device that can accurately measure the dead weight even when the engine rotates at a high speed.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a driving force calculation unit that calculates the driving force of the engine from the fuel injection amount and the engine speed, an acceleration calculation unit that calculates the acceleration of the vehicle from the vehicle speed, A pre-shift data storage unit that repeatedly stores driving force data and acceleration data before a shift, a during-shift data storage unit that repeatedly stores acceleration data during a shift, and the pre-shift data storage unit; Vehicle self-weight measurement provided with a self-weight calculation unit that calculates the self-weight based on the difference between the average acceleration before the shift and the average acceleration before the shift using the data accumulated by the data accumulation unit during the shift The apparatus includes a high-rotation data accumulation stop unit that temporarily stops data accumulation in the pre-shift data accumulation unit when the engine revolution number before the shift becomes equal to or greater than the governing start revolution number. A.

  A high speed continuation measurement stop unit may be provided to stop the self-weight measurement when the engine speed before the shift continues for a predetermined time or longer and reaches the governing start speed or higher.

  The present invention exhibits the following excellent effects.

  (1) The weight of the engine can be accurately measured even when the engine speed is high.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a vehicle weight measuring apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the dead weight measurement in the vehicle dead weight measuring apparatus of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the engine high rotation time measurement in the vehicle dead weight measuring apparatus of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure of the completion | finish process in the vehicle dead weight measuring apparatus of this invention. It is a torque diagram of an engine.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 according to the present invention includes a driving force calculation unit 3 that calculates a driving force of an engine 2 from a fuel injection amount and an engine speed, and calculates a vehicle acceleration from a vehicle speed. An acceleration calculation unit 4 for performing the shift, a pre-shift data storage unit 5 for repeatedly storing the driving force data and the acceleration data before the shift, and a shift for repeatedly storing the acceleration data during the shift. Using the data stored in the data storage unit 6, the data storage unit 5 before shifting, and the data storage unit 6 during shifting, the average driving force before shifting is determined based on the difference between the average acceleration before shifting and the average acceleration before shifting. A self-weight calculation unit 7 that calculates the data, a high-speed data accumulation stop unit 8 that temporarily stops accumulation of data in the pre-shift data accumulation unit 5 when the engine speed before the shift is equal to or greater than the governing start rotation number, No When Jin rotational speed is equal to or greater than Gabaningu start rotational speed continues for a predetermined time or more, and a high rotation continues the measurement stop unit 9 to stop the load measuring.

  The engine 2 is a diesel engine and has a governing start rotational speed set. When the engine rotational speed becomes equal to or higher than the governing start rotational speed, the fuel injection amount is regulated.

  The driving force calculation unit 3 is a conventional one and calculates the driving force of the engine 2 from the fuel injection amount and the engine speed. The driving force calculation unit 3 may obtain the driving force of the engine 2 by referring to the driving force map based on the fuel injection amount and the engine speed.

  The acceleration calculation unit 4 calculates the acceleration of the vehicle by differentiating the vehicle speed with respect to time or by taking a difference at predetermined time intervals.

  The pre-shift data accumulation unit 5 performs calculations in steps 204 to S208 in FIG. 2 to be described later in order to accumulate driving force data and acceleration data before the shift.

  The shifting data accumulation unit 6 performs calculations in steps S212 to S214 to accumulate acceleration data during shifting.

  The dead weight calculation unit 7 performs the operations of steps S217 to S221 in order to calculate the dead weight.

  The high-speed data accumulation stop unit 8 performs a determination corresponding to the flow of steps S203 to S225 in order to temporarily stop the accumulation of data before the shift when the engine speed before the shift becomes equal to or higher than the governing start speed. It is.

  The high speed continuation measurement stop unit 9 performs a determination corresponding to the flow of steps S203 to S224 to stop the self-weight measurement when the engine speed before the shift continues for a predetermined time or more and reaches the governing start speed or more. It is.

  A vehicle equipped with the vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 includes all known sensors and actuators necessary for vehicle running control such as engine control and shift control, not shown, and includes a fuel injection amount, an engine speed, A quantity such as a vehicle speed and a state such as a gear shift are detected as conventionally known.

  The driving force calculation unit 3, the acceleration calculation unit 4, the pre-shift data storage unit 5, the in-shift data storage unit 6, the dead weight calculation unit 7, the high rotation data storage stop unit 8, and the high rotation continuation measurement stop unit 9 It is preferable to incorporate as a program in one or more electronic control units (ECUs) that control each part of the vehicle.

  The vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 is configured to repeatedly execute the procedures of FIGS. 2 and 3 at predetermined time intervals. Hereinafter, the operation of the vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. However, in FIG. 2, a case where the engine speed does not become equal to or higher than the governing start speed will be described first, and then a case where the engine speed becomes equal to or higher than the governing start speed will be described.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 determines whether or not the vehicle is shifting in step S201. Here, since the flow will be described assuming that the vehicle is not shifting, the determination is NO. In this case, it is determined whether or not the stage classification is 2 in step S202. The stage classification takes a value of 0, 1, or 2, and is the stage that has been executed one time before, the measurement end stage, the pre-shift data storage stage, or the in-shift data storage stage? Is a numerical value indicating Here, it is assumed that the stage classification is 0.

  If the determination in step S202 is NO, the vehicle is not shifting, and the previous stage is the stage where measurement is completed (stage classification = 0) or pre-shift data accumulation stage (stage classification = 1). . This means that the current stage is a stage for pre-shift data accumulation starting from the beginning or a stage for pre-shift data accumulation that has been continued since the previous time. Will be executed.

  In step S203, it is determined whether the high rotation timer is zero. The high rotation timer is a timer that represents the time during which the engine speed continues to be equal to or higher than the governing start speed. When the engine speed is less than the governing start speed, the high speed timer is zero. Here, the flow will be described on the assumption that the high rotation timer is 0, so the determination is YES. In this case, since the current stage is the stage for pre-shift data accumulation and the engine speed is less than the governing start speed, the process proceeds to step S204.

  In step S204, the pre-shift data accumulation unit 5 increments (increases by 1) the pre-shift counter Cb. The pre-shift counter Cb is a counter indicating how many times data accumulation before the shift is performed. If the previous stage is the stage where the measurement has been completed, the pre-shift counter Cb is 0, so it increases by 1 to 1. If the previous stage is the pre-shift data accumulation stage and the pre-shift data accumulation is actually performed, the pre-shift counter Cb indicates the number of pre-shift data accumulation that has already been performed. And this time will increase by one.

  In step S205, the current driving force of the engine 2 calculated by the driving force calculator 3 is set as the current driving force Tnow.

  In step S206, the current driving force Tnow is added to the total driving force Tball up to the previous stage. If the previous stage is the stage where the measurement has been completed, the driving force sum Tball is cleared to 0, and in the subsequent pre-shift data accumulation stage, the driving force sum Tball is successively increased each time step S206 is executed. The driving force Tnow is added.

  In step S207, the current vehicle acceleration calculated by the acceleration calculation unit 4 is set as the current pre-shift acceleration Sb.

  In step S208, the current pre-shift acceleration Sb is added to the pre-shift acceleration total Sball up to the previous stage. If the previous stage is the stage where the measurement has been completed, the pre-shift acceleration total sum Sball is cleared to 0. In the subsequent pre-shift data accumulation stage, the pre-shift acceleration total sum Sball is set each time step S208 is executed. One after another, the acceleration Sb before shifting is added.

  In step S209, the stage classification is set to 1. This indicates that the current stage was a stage for storing data before shifting.

  In step S210, an end flag End is set to 0. The end flag End indicates that the weight measurement is continued when it is 0, and the weight measurement is ended when it is 1.

  In this way, before shifting, the number of data accumulation before shifting, the sum of driving forces, and the sum of acceleration before shifting are accumulated as data.

  Next, it is assumed that the shift is started. In step S201, the vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 determines whether the vehicle is shifting. Since the vehicle is shifting, the determination is YES. In this case, in step S211, it is determined whether the stage classification is 1 or 2. If the stage classification is 1, it means that the previous stage is the stage for accumulating data before shifting, and the vehicle is currently shifting, so the stage from this time will be the stage for accumulating data during shifting. . If the stage classification is 2, it means that the previous stage is the stage for accumulating data during shifting, and this stage is also the stage for accumulating data during shifting. Therefore, if the determination in step S211 is YES, data accumulation during shifting is executed according to the flow after step S212.

  In step S212, the shifting data storage unit 6 increments the shifting counter Ch by one. The shifting counter Ch is a counter indicating how many times data accumulation during shifting has been performed. If the previous stage is a stage for storing data before shifting, the shifting counter Ch is 0, so it increases by 1 and becomes 1. If the previous stage is a stage for storing data during shifting, the shifting counter Ch indicates the number of times data has already been stored during shifting, and this time is incremented by one.

  In step S213, the current vehicle acceleration calculated by the acceleration calculation unit 4 is set as the current shifting acceleration Sh.

  In step S214, the current shifting acceleration Sh is added to the shifting total acceleration Shall up to the previous stage. If the previous stage is the stage for pre-shift data accumulation, the total acceleration for acceleration Shall is cleared to 0. In the subsequent stage for data accumulation during shift, the total acceleration during shift is executed each time step S214 is executed. Acceleration Sh during shifting is added to Shall one after another.

  In step S215, the stage classification is set to 2. This indicates that this time was the stage of data accumulation during shifting.

  In step S216, an end flag End is set to 0.

  In this way, during the shift, the total number of data accumulations during the shift and the acceleration during the shifts is accumulated as data.

  Next, it is assumed that the shift is completed. In step S201, the vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 determines whether the vehicle is shifting. Since the vehicle is no longer shifting, the determination is no. In this case, the process proceeds to step S202 in the same manner as described above. However, since the data storage stage during shifting is performed here, the stage classification is 2, and the determination in step S202 is YES. Thus, the fact that the vehicle is not shifting and the previous stage classification is 2 means that data before shifting and during shifting are accumulated. Therefore, the weight calculation using the accumulated data is executed by the flow after step S217 (corresponding to the weight calculation section 7).

  In step S217, the average driving force Tave is calculated by dividing the total driving force Tball by the counter Cb before shifting.

  In step S218, the pre-shift acceleration sum Sball is divided by the pre-shift counter Cb to calculate the pre-shift average acceleration Sbave.

  In step S219, the average acceleration during shifting Shave is calculated by dividing the total acceleration Shall during shifting by the counter Ch during shifting.

  In step S220, based on the average driving force Tave of the engine 2, the driving force F received by the vehicle is calculated in consideration of the gear ratio before shifting.

  In step S221, the weight W is calculated by dividing the driving force F received by the vehicle by the difference between the average acceleration Sbave before shifting and the average acceleration Shave during shifting.

  In step S222, since the own weight measurement is completed, the end flag End is set to 1.

  From the flow up to this point, it has been found that the own weight W can be calculated when the engine speed does not exceed the governing start speed.

  Next, a case where the engine speed becomes equal to or higher than the governing start speed will be described. When the engine speed becomes equal to or higher than the governing start speed, a value other than 0 is entered in the high speed timer, and the determination of whether the high speed timer is 0 in step S203 is NO. When the determination in step S203 is NO, in step S223 and subsequent steps, data storage is temporarily stopped by the high-speed rotation data storage stop unit 8 or the self-weight measurement is stopped by the high-speed continuous time measurement stop unit 9.

  In step S223, it is determined whether or not the high rotation timer is equal to or greater than a predetermined value Tlim, for example, a value corresponding to 5 seconds. In the case of YES, it means that the engine speed before the shift has continued for a predetermined time or more and has reached the governing start speed or more, so the weight measurement is to be stopped, and the end flag End is set to 1 in step S224. To do.

  If the determination in step S223 is NO, the engine speed before the shift is equal to or higher than the governing start speed, but it does not continue to exceed the governing start speed for a predetermined time or longer, so the weight measurement is continued. In step S225, the end flag End is set to 0. As described above, when the engine speed before the shift is equal to or higher than the governing start speed, the data accumulation as in step S204 and after, that is, the driving force and the acceleration before the shift are added to the sum, and the data accumulation count is counted. The weight measurement will be continued to the next time.

  Thereafter, when the engine speed before the shift returns to less than the governing start speed, the high speed timer becomes 0, so that the determination in step S203 is YES, and data accumulation after step S204 is performed again.

  When the determination in step S211 is NO, it is considered that some trouble has occurred in the control, so the process proceeds to step S226, and the end flag End is set to 1 in step S226.

  Here, the engine high rotation time measurement will be described. As shown in FIG. 3, in step S31, it is determined whether or not the engine speed is equal to or higher than the covering speed. If YES, the high rotation timer is incremented by 1 in step S32. If NO, the high rotation timer is cleared in step S33. Thus, if the engine speed continues to be equal to or higher than the covering speed, the high speed timer continues to increase. When the engine speed returns to less than the covering speed, the high speed timer becomes zero.

  Next, the termination process executed following the procedure of FIG. 2 will be described. As shown in FIG. 4, it is determined whether or not the termination flag End is 1 in step S41. In the case of NO, the end flag End is 0, and the self-weight measurement is continued, so nothing is done. In the case of YES, the dead weight measurement is completed, so in step S42, the stage classification is set to 0 and various data are cleared.

  As described above, according to the vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 of the present invention, when the engine speed is equal to or higher than the covering speed, the accumulation of the driving force and acceleration data is temporarily stopped, so that the calculation error of the driving force is reduced. Larger data will be excluded and will not be used for weight measurement.

  Further, according to the vehicle weight measuring apparatus 1 of the present invention, when the engine speed continues for a predetermined time or more and reaches the governing start speed or more, the self-weight measurement is stopped, but the engine speed is covered in a shorter time than the predetermined time. When the rotational speed returns to less than the number of revolutions, data accumulation is resumed and the self-weight measurement is continued.

  As a result, since the engine 2 is operated in a high speed region near the governing start rotational speed before shifting, even when the engine rotational speed frequently exceeds the governing start rotational speed, the engine rotational speed exceeds the covering rotational speed. Since the self-weight measurement is performed with the data of the time being excluded, the self-weight measurement can be accurately performed, and the self-weight measurement is achieved because the self-weight measurement is not immediately stopped when the engine speed exceeds the governing start speed. Increase opportunities. The present invention is particularly effective when a manual shift is frequently performed such that the engine 2 is pulled up to a high speed until just before the shift and then shifted up.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Vehicle self-weight measuring apparatus 2 Engine 3 Driving force calculation part 4 Acceleration calculation part 5 Pre-shift data accumulation part 6 Shifting data accumulation part 7 Self-weight calculation part 8 High rotation data accumulation stop part 9 High rotation continuation measurement stop part

Claims (2)

A driving force calculation unit for calculating the driving force of the engine from the fuel injection amount and the engine speed;
An acceleration calculator for calculating the vehicle acceleration from the vehicle speed;
Before shifting, a pre-shift data accumulation unit that repeatedly accumulates driving force data and acceleration data before shifting;
During shifting, a shifting data storage unit that repeatedly stores acceleration data during shifting,
Using the data accumulated by the pre-shift data storage unit and the during-shift data storage unit, the self-weight calculation unit calculates the self-weight based on the difference between the average acceleration before the shift and the average acceleration before the shift. In the vehicle self-weight measuring device provided with
A vehicle self-weight measuring apparatus, comprising: a high-speed data accumulation stop unit that temporarily stops data accumulation in the pre-shift data accumulation unit when the engine revolution number before the shift becomes equal to or greater than the governing start revolution number.   The vehicle self-weight measuring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a high-rotation continuation measurement stop unit that stops the self-weight measurement when the engine speed before the shift continues for a predetermined time or more and reaches the governing start speed or more.

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