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US 2015/0149005 A1Published application
Torque monitoring system and method
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDaniel Richard Luedtke, Fazal Urrahman Syed, Siwei Cheng
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Abstract
A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, controlling a vehicle using an estimated torque of an electric machine, the estimated torque based on one or more parameters associated with the electric machine that are independent from measured current feedback.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- controlling a vehicle using an estimated torque of an electric machine, the estimated torque based on one or more parameters associated with the electric machine that are independent from measured current feedback.
A method, comprising:
- controlling a vehicle using an estimated torque of an electric machine, the estimated torque derived without measuring current feedback from the electric machine.
A torque monitoring system, comprising:
- an electric machine;
- and
- a control unit configured to estimate a torque of said electric machine without measuring current feedback from said electric machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.