An electrified vehicle includes a transmission having shiftable gears, an electric motor coupled for common therewith, and a synchronizer controllable for coupling the transmission to a driveline; friction brakes; a control system including a hybrid control unit, a brake control unit and a transmission control unit, wherein the hybrid control unit functions as a supervisory controller over the transmission control unit and the brake control unit and wherein the hybrid control unit is configured to coordinate control among the transmission control unit and brake control unit to compensate for unavailability of electric motor regeneration torque during an upcoming transmission gear shift event and blend in the friction brakes to provide a continuous and smooth deceleration of the electrified vehicle during the transmission shift event.

Methods and systems are provided for a vehicle hill control. An example of a method may include during a vehicle stopped condition, operating with a clutch of a transmission engaged to mechanically lock the transmission, the transmission having a plurality of power inputs including receiving input from an electric machine and a prime mover; releasing at least one of the clutch or a service brake, and while releasing, concurrently adjusting an output magnitude of the electric machine responsive to speed control to control to a zero vehicle speed. In some examples, the method may further include learning a torque output of the electric machine required to maintain the zero vehicle speed upon fully releasing the clutch or service brake. In an example, the method may include estimating a road grade based on the learned torque output.

The lidar systems may reduce stray light interference. A system may comprise a laser system which, upon receiving a signal at a first time, generates an illumination light. A polarizing beam splitter (PBS) may receive the illumination light from the laser system along a first light path and the illumination light may exit from the PBS along a second light path. A quarter wave plate (QWP) may receive the illumination light exiting from the PBS along the second light path and may pass the illumination light to an object from which the illumination light is reflected. A detector arranged proximate the PBS may receive the reflected light from the PBS along a third light path and may detect the reflected light at a second time, and a processor may determine a distance to the object based at least in part on the illumination light and the reflected light.

A vehicle includes a controller configured to switch between a constant speed traveling mode in which a vehicle speed is held constant and an inertial traveling mode in which a prime mover is stopped or in an idling state, and a clutch apparatus configured to connect and disconnect power transmission between the prime mover and an output target, and the controller controls the clutch apparatus and decreases a clutch capacity so as to transit to the inertial traveling mode when detected that the vehicle is traveling on a downhill road during the constant speed traveling mode, and the controller controls the clutch apparatus and increases the clutch capacity so as to transit to the constant speed traveling mode when detected that the vehicle traveling on the downhill road has terminated.

A method of controlling a vehicle with a plurality of motion actuators comprises: determining a longitudinal inclination and speed of the vehicle; selecting an uphill drive mode if the longitudinal inclination is greater than an inclination threshold and the absolute speed is less than a speed threshold, and otherwise selecting a regular drive mode; obtaining motion requests; in accordance with the selected drive mode, providing a solution to an optimization problem related to optimal control of the motion actuators in accordance with the obtained motion requests; and controlling the motion actuators in accordance with the solution to the optimization problem. The optimization problem is dependent on a control effectiveness matrix which is defined differently in the uphill drive mode and the regular drive mode.

A method for operating a hybrid vehicle that operates in charge depletion and charge sustaining modes is described. In one example, a battery charge reserve amount is adjusted according to an altitude of a portion of a road that the hybrid vehicle may travel upon. The portion of the road is based on a radial distance from the hybrid vehicle's present geographical position.

Disclosed herein a method for upshifting the transmission of a vehicle using shift entry prediction. The method may comprise predicting whether or not an upshift request of a vehicle will occur, determining whether or not a charge demand required for a battery through regeneration for upshift is greater than an allowable charge amount of the battery when the upshift request is predicted, controlling power consumption of the battery when the charge demand is greater than the allowable charge amount, and processing the upshift in response to an actual request of the upshift.

A vehicle includes a drive arrangement and a brake device. The drive arrangement has an electric drive machine for generating a driving torque for the vehicle, and a step-up gearing for stepping up the driving torque. The step-up gearing has a gearing input for receiving the driving torque and a gearing output for outputting a stepped-up driving torque in the direction of at least one driven wheel of the vehicle such that a driving torque path from the drive machine to the gearing output and/or to the at least one driven wheel is formed. The brake device can be brought into operative connection with the driving torque path in order to bring a braking torque along a braking torque path onto the at least one driven wheel. The brake device has a friction brake device with a temperature control fluid for lubricating and/or cooling the friction brake device.

A system includes a computer having a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to: receive at least one discrete input within a predetermined time period from a human-machine interface while the vehicle is at a standstill; and in response to the at least one discrete input, move the vehicle an incremental distance and returning the vehicle to a standstill.

Processing circuitry included in a controller is configured to: when the processing circuitry acquires a shift command by which a first gear stage is shifted to a second gear stage, execute transmission rate reducing control of controlling a clutch actuator such that a power transmission rate is reduced; after the transmission rate reducing control is executed, execute shift control of controlling a shift actuator such that a transmission gear pair corresponding to the first gear stage and engaging structures corresponding to the first gear stage are disengaged from each other, and a transmission gear pair corresponding to the second gear stage and engaging structures corresponding to the second gear stage are engaged with each other; and after the shift control is executed, execute transmission rate increasing control of controlling the clutch actuator such that the power transmission rate is increased.