An autonomous emergency braking apparatus may include: a front sensor configured to sense object information by searching for a control target ahead of a vehicle; a compensation condition sensor configured to sense a vehicle state and a surrounding environment, in order to estimate the road state and the driving environment of the vehicle; a brake controller configured to generate a braking force to brake the vehicle; a warning controller configured to notify an operation state when the vehicle is braked; and a controller configured to calculate a braking force and braking point, adjust the road state estimated from the vehicle state sensed through the compensation condition sensor and the braking force and the braking point which are calculated according to the surrounding environment, output a braking command to the brake, and notify the operation state through the warning controller according to the braking command.

A method for automatic electronic control of a brake system in a vehicle includes reading a request signal for automatic electronic control of actuators in the vehicle. At least one of the actuators has an influence on actual longitudinal vehicle dynamics of the vehicle, and requests that are to be implemented by the actuators for realizing automatically requested target longitudinal vehicle dynamics are transmitted via the request signal. The method further includes plausibility-checking the request signal to establish whether the requests are, or can be, implemented completely or without error by the actuators, taking into account a tolerance, and determining a correction deceleration and/or a correction velocity if the implementation of at least one of the requests has not taken place, or cannot take place, completely or without error, taking into account the tolerance, in order to specify corrective braking.

A parking brake system of a tipper vehicle having a tiltable tipper body is described. The system comprises a parking brake having a brake chamber which is pressurizable for releasing the parking brake. A valve device is in fluid communication with the brake chamber, the valve device comprising an exhaust port. The valve device has an activated state in which the brake chamber is in fluid communication with the exhaust port whereby air from the brake chamber is discharged, thereby applying the parking brake, and an inactivated state in which said fluid communication is disconnected. Upon receipt of a tipping signal, a neutral gear signal and a low speed signal, and upon detecting that the parking brake is still in the released state, the valve device is changed from the inactivated state to the activated state in order to exhaust air from the brake chamber, causing the parking brake to become changed to the applied state.

Steering a vehicle may include applying a net brake-steering force to a steered wheel sufficient to affect a steering moment upon the steered wheel sufficient to move the steered wheel away from a zero steering angle, and resisting movement of the steered wheel back toward the zero steering angle.

A method and device for detecting and providing braking assessment information indicative of a particulate emission from a vehicle braking system involves determining, upon a braking event, one or more physical quantities related to the particulate emission caused by the braking event based on detection of at least one physical quantity detected from the one or more physical quantities performed by respective detection means provided in the vehicle. The method and device may also include calculating, by an algorithm or mathematical assessment model, stored and executable in a computer, at least one braking assessment index, based on the one or more determined physical quantities. The braking assessment index being representative of a particulate emission amount by the vehicle braking system upon the braking event, and providing a user with braking assessment information related to the calculated braking assessment index, by a user interface.

A brake control device for vehicles with bar handle includes: a wheel speed obtaining unit obtaining a speed of a wheel; an estimated vehicle body speed setting unit setting an estimated vehicle body speed; a control unit performing fluid pressure control to raise, reduce or hold a brake fluid pressure; and a bank angle obtaining unit obtaining a bank angle. The estimated vehicle body setting unit sets a limit value of a change amount when the estimated vehicle body speed decreases at a time of braking of the vehicle, and sets the estimated vehicle body speed based on the limit value when a deceleration amount of the speed of the wheel on a braked side is larger than the limit value, and the estimated vehicle body speed setting unit corrects the limit value so that the change amount decreases as the obtained bank angle increases.

A brake fluid pressure control device for vehicles with bar handle which is configured to start a holding control of a fluid pressure of a wheel brake according to wheel deceleration calculated based on a wheel speed of the vehicle is provided. In the brake fluid pressure control device, the vehicle includes an acceleration sensor which is configured to detect acceleration in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, acceleration, detected by the acceleration sensor, which occurs in a rearward direction when the vehicle is decelerating is detected as a positive value, and the holding control is started when it is judged that the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor is larger than or equal to a detection acceleration threshold value and the wheel deceleration is smaller than or equal to a wheel deceleration threshold value.

A method for operating a hydraulic brake system of a motor vehicle includes generating a force for displacing a brake piston of a wheel brake of the brake system for the actuation thereof via a pressure generator and an electromechanical actuator of the brake system. The method further includes actuating one or more of the pressure generator and the actuator to set a parking brake function and monitoring the operability of the brake system. The method further includes monitoring the actuator for a change of the operating state thereof, and suspending the monitoring for a specifiable period of time depending on a detected change.

A method for controlling motion by a heavy-duty vehicle, where the vehicle is arranged to be controlled based on a target longitudinal wheel slip of at least one driven wheel on the vehicle. The method includes: monitoring an acceleration of the vehicle; monitoring a current longitudinal wheel slip of the at least one driven wheel; reducing the target longitudinal wheel slip of the at least one driven wheel in case the monitored acceleration of the vehicle decreases while the monitored current longitudinal wheel slip is non-decreasing; and controlling wheel slip of the at least one driven wheel based on the target longitudinal wheel slip.

A method adjusts a brake pedal characteristic of a vehicle having a brake pedal configured to generate a brake pedal deceleration demand and at least one further deceleration demand generating device to generate at least one further deceleration demand. The vehicle is configured to decelerate according to the brake pedal deceleration demand and to the at least one further deceleration demand. The method determines an achievable deceleration potential as a result of the further deceleration demand; generates a deceleration demand for adjusting the brake pedal deceleration demand at 0% brake pedal input according to the achievable deceleration potential; and adjusts the brake pedal characteristic of the vehicle.