Vehicle driveline torque managing process

A vehicle driveline torque managing process, comprising:

• providing a vehicle disconnect unit that comprises a drive axle assembly, with a clutch pack and an encoder, and a motor driving an actuator having an embedded controller with software, wherein the actuator manages clamping forces exerted on the clutch pack and the encoder provides motor rotational angle positions corresponding to clutch positions;
• regulating a coupling of power between a driveshaft and an axle, based on the clutch positions;
• deriving coupling torque values by stepping the motor from a full open maximum separation clutch position through a series of clutch positions and recording a motor driven commanded torque value at each step, up to a maximum compression clutch position having a maximum commanded motor torque value;
• and
• converting each of the motor driven commanded torque values into a respective clutch force value as a function of clutch position, thereby relating each commanded torque value to a clutch position in a physical factor conversion table that is stored in the controller, wherein each conversion table based clutch position is associated with a physical factor that influences the commanded torque value for each of the respective clutch positions.