Patent ID: 8849529

Claim:
A method for determining a contact point for a clutch in a vehicle; wherein the vehicle comprises at least one powered wheel, a vehicle engine for generation of driving force for transmission to the at least one powered wheel via a clutch and a gearbox between the engine and the at least one powered wheel, the gearbox comprising at least one rotatable first gearbox component, and the clutch is selectively in a closed position connecting the engine to the at least one powered wheel or in an open position disconnecting the engine from the at least one powered wheel; the method comprising the steps of: accelerating the first gearbox component if the rotation speed of the first gearbox component is below a second value; estimating a friction torque for the at least one first gearbox component when the at least one first gearbox component is disconnected from the at least one powered wheel, when the clutch is in an open position thereof and when the rotatable first gearbox component is rotating; closing the clutch from the open position when the at least one first gearbox component is disconnected from the powered wheel and the first gearbox component is rotating, wherein at the closure of the clutch, determining a representation of a torque transmitted by the clutch for a plurality of positions for the clutch, whereby the torque transmitted by the clutch is a function of the estimated friction torque; determining the contact point by means of the determined representation of the transmitted torque; and wherein the friction torque estimation is according to T Friction =k Friction ω, where k Friction =−J{dot over (ω)}/ω and where ω and {dot over (ω)} respectively represent the angular velocity and the angular acceleration for the first gearbox component.