Study of Control Parameters Tuning Method for Hydro-viscous Driver System

Hydro-viscous speed clutch (HVC) is a central control element of the driver system. Because of nonlinearities and hysteresis of the clutch, the setting of control parameters has a significant impact on the performance of the speed control system. This paper studies the HVC of a vehicle temperature control system, and analyzes the parameters tuning method of a PID controller for the closed-loop control system. By employing a two-storey optimized control framework, the resulting model from identification can be used to complete the control parameters auto-tuning. Simulation and experimental results have showed that this auto-tuning method can obtain a group of parameters in terms of a desired performance index, which guarantees the balance of dynamic characteristics, stability and anti-jamming in closed-loop system.