Patent ID: 8515638

Claim:
A transmission comprising: a plurality of clutch actuators arranged to engage or disengage a clutch in a multi-speed transmission; a shift actuator arranged to perform a shift change of the multi-speed transmission; a control unit arranged and programmed to control the plurality of clutch actuators and the shift actuator; a clutch lever; and a lever operation amount detection section arranged to convert an operation amount of the clutch lever to an electrical signal and to output the electrical signal to the control unit; wherein the control unit includes at least one of an automated manual transmission mode in which a series of shift change operations are performed by controlling the plurality of clutch actuators and the shift actuator in a coordinated manner when a shift change command is input by a shift operation by an operator, and an automatic transmission mode in which a shift selection and a series of shift change operations are performed automatically without regard to the shift operation by the operator; and in at least one of the automated manual transmission mode and the automatic transmission mode, the control unit is arranged and programmed to operate a clutch torque capacity of the clutch by determining an operation command value that controls the clutch torque capacity of the clutch based on the operation amount of the clutch lever, and to output the operation command value to the plurality of clutch actuators.