Randomized algorithms for open-leap control of clutch-to-clutch transmissions

In this paper, randomized algorithms are used to design an open-loop contro l for a clutch-to-clutch shift automatic transmission and to study the robu stness of that control. The open-loop control design problem can be posed a s an optimal control problem but because of the computational cost associat ed with each simulation and the complexity of the transmission model, class ical results from optimal control theory are not a practically feasible app roach for this problem. We apply randomized search algorithms for optimizat ion to these problems and present some promising results.