The present invention relates to a safety apparatus (20) for monitoring charging of an electrical energy store in a motor vehicle (100), having at least one first sensor device (21a) and at least one second sensor device (21b), the two of which are each designed to capture motion data for the motor vehicle (100) and to provide said motion data as a sensor signal; and a control device (25) that is coupled to the at least one first sensor device (21a) and to the at least one second sensor device (21b) and that is designed to deactivate the at least one second sensor device (21b) while the electrical energy store is being charged and, if the control device (25) detects motion of the motor vehicle (100) on the basis of one of the provided sensor signals, to actuate at least one actuator device (30) of the motor vehicle (100) in order to brake the motor vehicle (100).

An automatic vehicle braking arrangement includes a vehicle control unit configured to determine whether one or more conditions that must occur to activate an automatic braking function of the vehicle are occurring, to automatically activate the automatic braking function after determining that the one or more conditions are occurring, and to automatically release the automatic braking function after determining that one or more conditions that must occur to release the automatic braking function are occurring. A method for operating such an arrangement is also provided.

A system (e.g., a vehicle control system) includes a brake control unit that is configured to be operably deployed onboard a vehicle. The brake control unit has one or more sensor inputs and one or more control outputs. One of the sensor units is configured to receive a speed signal from a speed sensor of the vehicle; the speed signal is indicative of a vehicle speed detected by the speed sensor. One of the control outputs is configured for connection to a brake system of the vehicle. The brake control unit is configured to generate a vehicle control signal to initiate a vehicle brake operation responsive to the speed indicated by the speed signal going above a designated first speed threshold and the speed signal meeting one or more first designated criteria in addition to the first speed threshold.

A vehicle braking control apparatus includes a controller and a determiner. The controller is configured to switch between a braking-force generating control and a braking-force release control. The controller causes a braking device mounted on a vehicle to generate a braking force in the braking-force generating control and causes the braking device to release the generated braking force in the braking-force release control. The determiner is configured to determine whether an unstable-behavior with rotation around a rotation axis along a vertical direction occurs or not in the vehicle based on a determination-value determined by a state occurred in the vehicle and a state of a road surface with which wheels of the vehicle are in contact. The controller causes the braking device to generate the braking force by executing the braking-force generating control when the determiner determines that the unstable-behavior occurs.

Methods and systems for preventing unwanted movement of a trailer coupled to a towing vehicle are provided. A method includes obtaining sensor data via one or more sensors of the towing vehicle indicating movement of the towing vehicle and/or trailer, and in response to an indication of movement of the towing vehicle and/or trailer, automatically activating a trailer brake to prevent movement of the trailer.

A method for dynamically adjusting a driving pedal characteristic of a vehicle, in particular, an OPD characteristic of a vehicle, is disclosed. The driving pedal characteristic defines a correlation between a driving pedal position and a deceleration demand. The method includes the following steps: step (S1): providing a first adjustment point (AP1) of the driving pedal characteristic; step (S2): providing a second adjustment point (AP2) of the driving pedal characteristic; step (S3): receiving a current driving pedal position as a driver input; step (S4): adjusting a calculation method for calculating a current deceleration demand; step (S5): calculating the current deceleration demand according to the adjusted calculation method; and step (S6): outputting the current deceleration demand to the vehicle.

A method for controlling a vehicle train, having a towing vehicle and at least one trailer vehicle. The towing vehicle includes a continuous deceleration device for performing a continuous deceleration. The method includes the steps: determining a trailer mass of the trailer vehicle in the prevailing vehicle configuration of the vehicle train; determining a towing vehicle trailer mass of the towing vehicle in the prevailing vehicle configuration; determining a mass ratio of the prevailing vehicle configuration based on the trailer mass and the towing vehicle mass; and limiting a maximum permissible continuous deceleration power of the continuous deceleration device based on the mass ratio. A driver assistance system is configured to perform the method. A commercial vehicle includes the driver assistance system. A computer program product is configured to perform the method.

Methods and systems for preventing unwanted movement of a trailer coupled to a towing vehicle are provided. A method includes obtaining sensor data via one or more sensors of the towing vehicle indicating movement of the towing vehicle and/or trailer, and in response to an indication of movement of the towing vehicle and/or trailer, automatically activating a trailer brake to prevent movement of the trailer.

A lead vehicle (1) in an adaptive cruise control system that non-mechanically connects a following vehicle (2) to the lead vehicle (1) sequentially and that causes the following vehicle (2) to follow its immediately preceding vehicle calculates vehicle velocity limit (V1.sub.max) for limiting a velocity of the lead vehicle (1) based on maximum allowable vehicle velocity (V2.sub.max) of the following vehicle (2), maximum allowable vehicle velocity (V2.sub.max) satisfying a turning performance of the following vehicle (2), and controls a brake apparatus and a drive apparatus such that the velocity of the lead vehicle (1) will not exceed vehicle velocity limit (V1.sub.max).

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.