The paper presents a method to optimise the synchroniser of a road vehicle gearbox in order to improve shiftability and driver comfort. A multi-body physical model of the synchroniser has been developed and validated experimentally. The optimisation method is based on a Multi-objective Programming approach, and it allows to tune the thirty-two parameters of the synchroniser in order to achieve the desired dynamic behaviour of the system during a reference shift action, defined by seven performance indices. A Global Approximation procedure has been followed to solve numerically the optimisation problem. A special study has been performed and implemented in order to explore all of the feasible design solutions within the design variables domain. A global sensitivity method has been applied in order to analyse the relationships among the thirty-two design variables and the seven performance indices. Pareto-optimal design solutions have been computed in a very short time. These Pareto-optimal solutions have been checked for robustness by applying the minimum sensitivity method. The optimisation method has been applied with successful results. A number of optimised synchronisers have been defined, all of them featuring relevant improvements in the dynamic behaviour (shiftability) with respect to the reference synchroniser, already effective and under production.
On the optimisation of a double cone synchroniser for improved manual transmission shiftability
2002
11 Seiten, 27 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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