Patent ID: 8443688

Claim:
A method of learning an initial capacity point of a clutch in a dual clutch transmission of a vehicle, the method comprising: identifying when the dual clutch transmission is operating in a steady state gear condition with a first clutch continuously transmitting torque to a first shaft; sequentially positioning a second clutch in each of a plurality of application positions (P n , P n+1 , P n+2 , . . . , P n+i ) when the dual clutch transmission is operating in a steady state gear condition, wherein the second clutch is configured to transmit torque to a second shaft; attempting to position the second shaft in a geared state in each of the plurality of application positions; and defining the first application position (P n+i ) in the sequence of application positions in which the second shaft is not successfully positioned in the geared state as the initial capacity point of the second clutch.