JP2013018332A - Regenerative brake control device for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a regenerative brake control device for a vehicle, which achieves deceleration giving no uncomfortable feeling when the vehicle is decelerated by the brake pedal operation of a fixed pedal depression amount from a relatively high speed to a low speed, and which eliminates uncomfortable feeling of a driver by suppressing discontinuity of deceleration feeling during an ABS (Antilock Brake System) operation.SOLUTION: The regenerative brake control device for a vehicle is used for a vehicle including an ABS device and a regenerative brake, and according to an ABS operation and a vehicle speed, the regenerative brake control device controls a hydraulic brake force generated by the hydraulic bake and a regenerative brake force generated by the regenerative brake to obtain a brake force required by a drive. The regenerative brake control device also performs control in such a manner that: the regenerative brake generates an "acceleration OFF regenerative brake force" when the released state of an accelerator pedal is detected, and generates a "brake ON regenerative brake force" when the depression operation of a brake pedal is detected; and the regenerative brake force during the ABS operation is smaller than that during ABS nonoperation. The regenerative brake control device further performs control in such a manner that the value of the low-speed zone of the regenerative brake force is higher than that of a high-speed zone.

Description

  The present invention relates to a regenerative brake control device for a vehicle that obtains a braking force requested by a driver by controlling a hydraulic braking force and a regenerative braking force according to an ABS operation and a vehicle speed.

  A vehicle such as an electric vehicle that runs using an electric motor as a drive source includes a hydraulic brake that generates a hydraulic braking force and a regenerative brake that generates a regenerative braking force, and controls both brakes to provide the braking force required by the driver. Trying to get.

  Here, the hydraulic brake is a brake that rotates together with the wheels by operating the brake pads by supplying the hydraulic pressure generated in the master cylinder when the driver depresses the brake pedal to, for example, the wheel cylinder of the disc brake device of each wheel. Braking is applied to the rotation of the wheel by frictional resistance (hydraulic braking force) generated by holding the disc between the brake pads. The regenerative brake converts the kinetic energy into electric energy by causing the electric motor to function as a generator during deceleration and stores it in the battery, and uses the regenerative torque generated by the rotational resistance of the electric motor as the regenerative braking force. It is. The regenerative braking force includes a braking force corresponding to a brake operation and a braking force equivalent to an engine brake (braking force generated when the foot is released from the accelerator).

  By the way, in a vehicle equipped with a hydraulic brake and a regenerative brake, as a control of the regenerative brake, the braking force is controlled so that the regenerative braking force is mainly used to recover more kinetic energy during deceleration and improve fuel efficiency. A constant regenerative braking force is generated if the brake pedal is depressed regardless of the coordinated brake control to be distributed or the braking force required by the driver (the amount of brake pedal operation by the driver). Regenerative brake control is performed. Here, in the coordinated brake control, the relationship between the brake operation amount (brake pedal depression amount) and the braking force is shown in FIG. 3, but if the accelerator pedal is not depressed, even if the brake operation amount is zero, the engine brake equivalent control is performed. When power is given as regenerative braking force and the brake pedal is depressed by brake operation, regenerative braking force according to the amount of brake operation is added, and braking force corresponding to the amount of brake operation is added to the braking force equivalent to engine brake A braking force is given as a regenerative braking force. Then, the hydraulic braking force by the hydraulic brake is applied when the regenerative braking force is insufficient with respect to the braking force requested by the driver.

  In constant regenerative braking control, if the accelerator pedal is not depressed, the braking force equivalent to engine braking (hereinafter referred to as “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force”) is applied as regenerative braking force in the same way as in cooperative brake control. When (depressing the brake pedal) is detected, a regenerative braking force with a predetermined strength (hereinafter referred to as “brake ON regenerative braking force”) is added, and “brake ON regenerative braking force” is added to “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force”. Is applied as a regenerative braking force. This constant regenerative brake control reduces the amount of energy that can be regenerated compared to the cooperative brake control, but the control and system are easy for cooperative brake control that requires complex control. There is merit in terms of.

  The vehicle is also equipped with an ABS (anti-lock braking system) for preventing the wheels from locking even when sudden braking is applied when the vehicle is traveling on a frozen road surface, for example. This ABS is an acceleration sensor (G sensor) that detects vehicle deceleration, a wheel speed sensor that detects the rotation speed of each wheel, and an optimum rotation speed of each wheel based on the detected values of these acceleration sensors and wheel speed sensors. And an ABS actuator for controlling the brake fluid pressure supplied to the brake device of each wheel by a control signal output from the ABS controller.

  Thus, the ABS controls the braking force independently for each wheel, whereas the regenerative braking force acts on the drive wheels (a pair of left and right front wheels or rear wheels) in the same way, so the regenerative braking force is large. In some cases, the ABS cannot function effectively.

  Therefore, conventionally, during ABS operation, the regenerative braking force is controlled to 0 or a small value (for example, braking force equivalent to engine braking) as shown in FIG. 4 (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

Japanese Patent No. 3777974 Japanese Patent No. 3438242

  By the way, in the fixed regenerative brake control, there is a problem that the amount of energy that can be regenerated is smaller than in the cooperative brake control. In addition, since the “brake ON regenerative braking force” is set to be constant regardless of the speed of the vehicle, when decelerating by depressing the brake pedal with a constant depressing amount from a relatively high speed, In comparison, there is a possibility that the deceleration is weakened and the driver needs to further depress the brake pedal.

Further, when the “brake ON regenerative braking force” is controlled to 0 or a small value when the ABS is operated, the deceleration feeling is interrupted due to the decrease in the regenerative braking force, giving the driver anxiety, and the decrease in the regenerative braking force. On the other hand, there arises a problem that the driver further depresses the brake pedal. For example, in FIG. 4, when the brake operation is performed when the vehicle is traveling at the vehicle speed v when the ABS is not operated, the regenerative braking force of f _G shown in the figure is generated. At this time, the wheel tends to lock (slip tendency). When the ABS is actuated due to the detection, the regenerative braking force rapidly decreases by Δf _G (= f _G −f _G ′) from f _G to f _G ′, so that the deceleration feeling of the regenerative braking force is reduced by Δf _G. And the driver tries to increase the hydraulic braking force by further depressing the brake pedal.

  However, since the ABS is in operation and the control of the hydraulic braking force is left to the ABS control device, the hydraulic braking force cannot be increased by the driver, and there is a feeling of deceleration until the hydraulic control force is supplemented by the ABS control device. It breaks.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and the purpose of the present invention is to increase the amount of energy that can be regenerated by constant regenerative brake control, and by operating the brake pedal with a constant depressing amount from relatively high speed to low speed. An object of the present invention is to provide a regenerative brake control device for a vehicle that enables deceleration without causing a sense of incongruity even when the vehicle is decelerated, and further eliminates the driver's anxiety by suppressing discontinuity of the deceleration during ABS operation. .

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is directed to a hydraulic braking force generated by the hydraulic brake of a vehicle including an ABS device, a hydraulic brake and a regenerative brake, and a regenerative braking force generated by the regenerative brake. The braking force required by the driver is obtained by controlling according to the operation of the ABS and the vehicle speed, and the regenerative brake generates an “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” when the release state of the accelerator pedal is detected. When a depressing operation is detected, a “brake ON regenerative braking force” is generated, and when the ABS is activated, the “brake ON regenerative braking force” is decreased to control the regenerative braking force to be lower than that when the ABS is not activated. A regenerative braking control device for a vehicle that controls the regenerative braking force so that a value in a low vehicle speed region is larger than a value in a high vehicle speed region. And butterflies.

  The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in the invention according to claim 1, control is performed such that the value of the regenerative braking force during the ABS operation is greater than the value of the high vehicle speed range.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the invention, the peak value in the low speed region of the regenerative braking force when the ABS is operating and the value in the high speed region of the regenerative braking force when the ABS is not operating are approximately the same. It is characterized by controlling to become.

  According to the first aspect of the invention, since the value of the predetermined range in the low vehicle speed range of the regenerative braking force (the speed range where the vehicle stability is high) is controlled to be larger than the value in the high vehicle speed range, Even with the constant regenerative brake control in which the amount of energy that can be regenerated is smaller than the brake control, the amount of energy that can be recovered can be increased.

  In addition, when the running resistance (tyre rolling resistance, drive system frictional resistance, air resistance, etc.) that acts as a pseudo braking force is reduced from a relatively high speed to a low speed where the running resistance is relatively low, However, although the deceleration is weaker than at high speed, the decrease in running resistance is compensated by the "accelerator OFF regenerative braking force" that is controlled so that the value in the predetermined range in the low vehicle speed range is larger than the value in the high vehicle speed range. In other words, when the speed is low, the deceleration is suppressed from becoming weaker than when the speed is high, and the speed can be reduced without any sense of incongruity, and the complexity of the driver's stepping on the brake pedal can be reduced.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the value of the regenerative braking force at the time of ABS operation is controlled to be larger than the value of the high vehicle speed range, the kinetic energy in the low speed range is effective as electric energy. Can be recovered. Furthermore, the value of the predetermined range in the low vehicle speed range is changed from the values in the other ranges of the high vehicle speed range due to changes similar to the regenerative braking force ("accelerator OFF regenerative braking force" + "brake ON regenerative braking force") when ABS is not operating Therefore, the amount of decrease in regenerative braking force during “ABS inactive → ABS operation” (decrease in “Brake ON regenerative braking force”) can be kept low, and the overall braking force including the hydraulic brake Can be minimized. For this reason, the increase in the hydraulic braking force required to compensate for the decrease in the regenerative braking force is also kept low, and the driver's further stepping on the brake pedal for the increase in the hydraulic braking force can be reduced. The discontinuity of the feeling of deceleration is suppressed, and the driver's anxiety is eliminated.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, the peak value in the low speed region of the regenerative braking force during the ABS operation (reduced “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” + decreased “brake ON regenerative braking force”) and the ABS non-operation. The regenerative braking force at the time ("accelerator OFF regenerative braking force" + "brake ON regenerative braking force") is controlled so that the value in the high speed range is substantially the same, so in ABS control that is likely to occur at a relatively low speed, Change of regenerative braking force when the ABS device is actuated at a time when the speed is reduced to a certain level due to the deceleration from (from the regenerative braking force at the high speed when the ABS is not operating to the low speed when the ABS is operating) (Change to regenerative braking force at the vehicle) is suppressed, and the change in deceleration is suppressed, so that the driver's anxiety is eliminated.

1 is a system configuration diagram of a regenerative brake control device for a vehicle according to the present invention. It is a figure which shows the relationship between the regenerative braking force controlled by the regenerative brake control apparatus of the vehicle which concerns on this invention, and a vehicle speed. It is a figure which shows the relationship between braking force and a brake operation amount. It is a figure which shows the relationship between the regenerative braking force controlled by a regenerative brake control apparatus, and a vehicle speed.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a regenerative brake control device according to the present invention. A vehicle equipped with the regenerative brake control device is an electric vehicle that travels using an electric motor 1 as a drive source, and is a pair of left and right drive wheels. The front wheel 2 is rotationally driven by the power transmitted from the electric motor 1 through the reduction gear (R / G) 3. The electric vehicle includes a regenerative brake 4 that generates a regenerative braking force by causing each electric motor 1 to function as a generator during deceleration, and a hydraulic brake that generates a hydraulic braking force by a mechanical frictional force by hydraulic pressure. 5 and an ABS device (hydraulic pressure control unit 14) for preventing the right and left pair of front wheels 2 and rear wheels 6 from being locked.

  The regenerative brake 4 includes an electric motor 1 and a motor controller 7 that controls them. When the driver releases the depression of the accelerator pedal 8, the information is transmitted from the accelerator position sensor 9 to the motor controller 7, and the motor The controller 7 causes each electric motor 1 to function as a generator. Then, the power generation load of each electric motor 1 that functions as a generator is applied to each front wheel 2 via the speed reducer 3, and a regenerative braking force (accelerator OFF regenerative braking force) equivalent to an engine brake is applied to each front wheel 2.

  The hydraulic brake 5 includes a brake pedal 10 and a brake booster 11 that assists the depression force (depression force), a master cylinder 12 that generates a required hydraulic pressure when the brake pedal 10 is depressed, a pair of left and right front wheels 2 and a rear wheel 6. The brake device 13 is provided with a hydraulic pressure control unit 14 for generating a required hydraulic pressure, and a brake for detecting whether or not the brake pedal 10 is depressed in the vicinity of the brake pedal 10. A stroke sensor 15 that detects the S / W 15 or the stroke (depression amount) of the brake pedal 10 is provided. Instead of the stroke sensor 15, a pedal force sensor that detects the depression force (depression force) of the brake pedal 10 may be provided.

  Here, the brake devices 13 provided respectively on the front wheel 2 and the rear wheel 6 are disc brakes, and hydraulic pressure supplied to a brake disc 13a that rotates together with the front wheel 2 or the rear wheel 6 and a wheel cylinder (not shown). The brake pad 13b is operated when the hydraulic pressure is supplied to the wheel cylinder. The brake pad 13b is operated, and the brake disk 13a is sandwiched by the brake pad 13b. Power is generated.

  The hydraulic pressure control unit 14 includes an ABS actuator (not shown) and a hydraulic pressure generator (not shown) that generates a hydraulic pressure independently of the master cylinder 12, and the hydraulic pressure generator includes a pump and the hydraulic pressure generator. It is comprised by the pump motor which drives. The master cylinder 12 and the hydraulic pressure control unit 14 are connected by a brake pipe 16, and the wheel cylinders of the brake device 13 provided on the front wheel 2 and the rear wheel 6 are connected by a brake pipe 17 to the hydraulic pressure control unit 14. Are connected to each.

  The ABS device is, for example, for preventing the front wheel 2 and the rear wheel 6 from locking even when sudden braking is applied when traveling on a frozen road surface, and detects acceleration of the vehicle. A sensor (G sensor) 18, a wheel speed sensor 19 for detecting the rotational speed of the front wheel 2 and the rear wheel 6, and the optimum of each front wheel 2 and each rear wheel 6 based on the detection values of these acceleration sensor 18 and wheel speed sensor 19 By the ABS actuator (hydraulic pressure control unit 14) that controls the hydraulic pressure supplied to the wheel cylinder of each brake device 13 by the control signal output from the ABS controller (hydraulic pressure control unit 14) that calculates the rotation speed. It is configured.

  Incidentally, the regenerative brake control device 20 according to the present invention is the so-called constant regenerative brake that controls the regenerative braking force independently of the hydraulic braking force generated by the hydraulic brake 5 and releases the depression of the accelerator pedal 8. Is received, a command is sent to the motor controller 7 to generate an “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” (braking force equivalent to engine braking), a signal indicating a depression operation on the brake pedal 10 is detected, and the “brake ON” A command is issued to the motor controller 7 to generate the “regenerative braking force”, and the motor controller 7 that has received the command causes each electric motor 1 to function as a generator to generate the regenerative braking force by the power generation load of each electric motor 1. . Each regenerative braking force (“accelerator OFF regenerative braking force”, “brake ON regenerative braking force”) depends on the traveling speed of the vehicle regardless of the operation amount (stroke) or operation force of the brake pedal 10 by the driver. Each regenerative braking force is controlled to a predetermined regenerative braking force value. Further, the regenerative braking force generated by the regenerative brake 4 is changed and controlled according to the operation (actuation / non-operation) of the ABS to suppress the regenerative braking force from hindering the operation of the ABS.

  Here, FIG. 2 shows the relationship between the vehicle speed and the regenerative braking force when the ABS is operating and when the ABS is not operating in the present embodiment. When the ABS is inactive when the “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” and “brake ON regenerative braking force” are applied, the regenerative braking force is a predetermined value centered on 20 km / h in the low speed range rather than the high speed range, as shown in FIG. It is controlled to generate strongly in the region R. For this reason, more kinetic energy in the low speed region can be recovered as electric energy than the control for generating a constant regenerative braking force. Specifically, as shown in the figure, the “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” is controlled so that the regenerative braking force is generated more strongly in a predetermined region R centered at 20 km / h in the low speed region than in the high speed region. The “ON regenerative braking force” is a substantially constant braking force regardless of the vehicle speed except in the extremely low speed range.

  At the time of ABS operation, the “brake ON regenerative braking force” is reduced to 0 and controlled so that the “brake ON regenerative braking force” due to the depressing operation of the brake pedal is not applied, and the “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” is reduced. Then, the “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” due to the released state of the accelerator pedal is controlled to be weaker than the normal control (when the ABS is not operating). Then, this reduced “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” acts. When the ABS shown in FIG. 2 is operated, the regenerative braking force in which the “brake ON regenerative braking force” is set to 0 and the “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” is reduced (that is, the reduced “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” is shown). Regenerative braking force only "braking force"). As shown in the figure, during ABS operation, the regenerative braking force is controlled to be generated more strongly in a predetermined region R centered at 20 km / h in the low speed region than in the high speed region. For this reason, even when the ABS is operated, the regenerative braking force can be used more than the control for generating a constant regenerative braking force, and the kinetic energy in the low speed region can be recovered more as electric energy.

  Thus, the ABS controls the braking force independently for each wheel (front wheel 2 and rear wheel 6), whereas the regenerative braking force acts on the pair of left and right front wheels 2 as drive wheels in the same manner. When the regenerative braking force is large, the regenerative braking force may affect the control operation of the ABS and the ABS may not function effectively. For this reason, in the present embodiment, the regenerative braking force is set smaller than that when the ABS is not operated when the ABS is operated so that the ABS function is sufficiently exerted. Further, when the ABS is operated, the regenerative braking force is reduced. Control is performed so that the value of the predetermined range R centering on the vehicle speed of 20 km / h in the low vehicle speed range is larger than the value in the other range (for example, the value in the high vehicle speed range). This is because the “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” in normal control (when the ABS is not operating) is such that the value in the predetermined range R centered at the vehicle speed of 20 km / h in the low vehicle speed range is larger than the value in the high vehicle speed range. Since it is controlled, it can be easily controlled without causing the driver to feel uncomfortable.

Therefore, for example, if a braking operation is performed when the vehicle is traveling at the vehicle speed v when the ABS is not operated in FIG. 2, the regenerative braking force of the illustrated FG is generated. At this time, the wheel (front wheel 2 or rear wheel 6) is generated. When the locking tendency of the) (slip tendency) of ABS to is detected operated, the regenerative braking force is reduced from F _G to F _{G '.} However, since the regenerative braking force at the time of ABS operation is controlled so that the value in the low vehicle speed range is increased, the decrease ΔF _G (= F _G −F _G ′) is the conventional decrease shown in FIG. It is suppressed to be smaller than Δf _G (= f _G −f _G ′) (ΔF _G <Δf _G ). For this reason, discontinuity of the feeling of deceleration is suppressed, and the driver's anxiety is eliminated.

  Further, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the peak value at a vehicle speed of 20 km / h in the low speed region of the regenerative braking force at the time of ABS operation and the value in the high speed region of the regenerative braking force at the time of ABS non-operation are obtained. Control is made to be approximately the same. For this reason, in the ABS control that is likely to occur at a relatively low speed, when the ABS device operates at a time when the speed is reduced to a certain level by the deceleration from the high speed, the change in the regenerative braking force of the regenerative brake 4 (the ABS non-ABS) (Change from a regenerative braking force at a high speed of operation to a regenerative braking force at a low speed at the time of ABS operation) is suppressed, and a change in deceleration is suppressed, so that the driver's anxiety is eliminated.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electric motor 2 Front wheel 4 Regenerative brake 5 Hydraulic brake 6 Rear wheel 7 Motor controller 10 Brake pedal 13 Brake device 13a Brake disk 13b Brake pad 14 Hydraulic control unit 15 Stroke sensor 20 Regenerative brake control device

Claims (3)

The driver controls the hydraulic braking force generated by the hydraulic brake and the regenerative braking force generated by the regenerative brake of the vehicle equipped with the ABS device, the hydraulic brake and the regenerative brake according to the operation of the ABS and the vehicle speed. While obtaining the required braking force,
The regenerative brake generates an “accelerator OFF regenerative braking force” when the accelerator pedal is released, and generates a “brake ON regenerative braking force” when a depression of the brake pedal is detected. In a regenerative brake control device for a vehicle that controls to reduce the regenerative braking force by reducing the “brake ON regenerative braking force” to be lower than that when the ABS is not operating,
A regenerative braking control device for a vehicle, wherein the regenerative braking force is controlled so that a value in a low vehicle speed range is larger than a value in a high vehicle speed range.   2. The regenerative brake control device for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein control is performed so that a value in the low vehicle speed range of the regenerative braking force during ABS operation is greater than a value in the high vehicle speed range. 3. The control according to claim 2, wherein control is performed so that a peak value in the low speed region of the regenerative braking force when the ABS is operating and a value in the high speed region of the regenerative braking force when the ABS is not operating are approximately the same. Vehicle regenerative brake control device.

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