A brake temperature estimation apparatus for estimating the temperature of a vehicle brake is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory which stores thermal behavior information relating the temperature of a brake of a braked wheel of the vehicle to the temperature of tire gas in the tire of the braked wheel, and a controller which is configured to: receive a first tire gas temperature value relating to the temperature of tire gas in the tire of the braked wheel at a given time; receive a second tire gas temperature value relating to the temperature of tire gas in a tire of a non-braked wheel of the vehicle at the given time; calculate a difference between the first tire gas temperature value and the second tire gas temperature value; and estimate a temperature of the brake of the braked wheel based on the calculated difference and the thermal behavior information.

An off-road vehicle includes a driveline, a control system, and a braking system. The driveline provides driveline power and driveline brake power to a first tractive assembly and/or a second tractive assembly. The control system stores vehicle information, determines driving instructions based on environment data, and determines speed references for tractive elements of the first and second tractive assemblies based on the driving instructions and the vehicle information. The braking system includes brakes and a braking subsystem. The brake subsystem operates the brakes to provide brake power to one or more components of the first and/or second tractive assemblies. The brake controller controls the brakes to selectively provide the brake power and the control system controls the driveline to selectively provide the driveline power and the driveline brake power based on current speeds of the tractive elements and the speed references to accommodate the driving instructions.

An aircraft brake control system for controlling a plurality of brakeable wheels of a landing gear. Each brakeable wheel includes a brake actuator and a wheel speed sensor. The system includes a controller configured to receive aircraft control parameters and provide brake commands to the brake actuator of each wheel. The controller being configured to activate pre-retraction braking in response to an aircraft control parameter indicating that landing gear retraction is required and execute a functional brake test during pre-retraction braking.

An electro-pneumatic brake system for an automotive vehicle comprising brake actuators each with a service brake chamber and a park brake chamber, a service brake system forming a pneumatic main deceleration system and comprising service brake lines configured to supply air pressure to the service brake chamber of the brake actuators, a park brake system forming a pneumatic immobilization system and a backup pneumatic deceleration system, and comprising park brake lines configured to supply air pressure to the park brake chamber of the brake actuators, wherein the park brake system comprises a pressure controller device configured to perform a wheel anti-locking function under a condition of the park brake system being used as a backup deceleration system, the pressure controller device being configured to control the air pressure supply in the park brake lines.

A brake system for a motor vehicle having hydraulically actuatable wheel brakes. Each wheel an electrically actuatable inlet valve and electrically actuatable outlet valve for setting wheel-specific brake pressures. A first electrically controllable pressure provision device is connected to a brake supply line to which the wheel brakes are connected. A second electrically controllable pressure provision device is connected to the brake supply line. A first electrical device activates the first pressure provision device. A second electrical device activates the second pressure provision device. Electrically independent first and second electrical partitions are provided. The first pressure provision device and the first electrical device are assigned to the first electrical partition and the second pressure provision device, the second electrical device and the inlet and outlet valves are assigned to the second electrical partition. The inlet and outlet valves are activated by the second electrical device.

A method for controlling the braking of a towed vehicle by a towing vehicle. The method includes receiving, at or by a brake actuator ECU, deceleration data of the towing vehicle and sensing, using a sensor, a longitudinal deceleration of the towed vehicle. The method also includes generating, at or by the brake actuator ECU, a brake signal based on the deceleration data and the longitudinal deceleration, sending the brake signal from the brake actuator ECU to an electric motor of a brake actuator of the towed vehicle, and applying, by the brake actuator, a hydraulic pressure to brakes of the towed vehicle based on the brake signal.

A control unit (130, 140, 300) for controlling a heavy duty vehicle (100), wherein the control unit is arranged to obtain an acceleration profile (a.sub.req) and a curvature profile (c.sub.req) indicative of a desired maneuver by the vehicle (100), the control unit (130, 140, 300) comprising a force generation module (310) configured to determine a set of global vehicle forces and moments required to execute the desired maneuver, the control unit (130, 140, 300) further comprising a motion support device, MSD, coordination module (320) arranged to coordinate one or more MSDs to collectively provide the global vehicle forces and moments by generating one or more respective wheel forces, and an inverse tyre model (330) configured to map the one or more wheel forces into equivalent wheel slips (λ), wherein the control unit (130, 140, 300) is arranged to request the wheel slips (λ) from the MSDs.

An example operation includes one or more of determining, by sensors on a transport, a slope of a road and a surface condition of the road and engaging one or more wheels of the transport, based on the slope, the surface condition, and a characteristic of the one or more wheels. Engaging includes braking to the one or more wheels at a different rate as the transport is moving on the road.

A controller and a control method capable of optimizing a braking force generated by a brake system are obtained. During deceleration of a motorcycle, the controller and the control method according to the invention obtain an estimated vehicle body speed Vbe of the motorcycle that is estimated on the basis of speed information of a wheel, obtain a corrected vehicle body speed Vbc that is obtained by correcting an actually-measured vehicle body speed of the motorcycle to a low-speed side, cause the brake system to generate the braking force that corresponds to the estimated vehicle body speed Vbe in a state where the estimated vehicle body speed Vbe is higher than the corrected vehicle body speed Vbc, and cause the brake system to generate the braking force that corresponds to the corrected vehicle body speed Vbc in a state where the estimated vehicle body speed Vbe is lower than the corrected vehicle body speed Vbc.

A brake control system for issuing an early warning about a malfunction of a brake of a vehicle, in which the brake is configured to receive a brake signal and to perform a braking process after receiving the brake signal. The vehicle includes a sensor to generate sensor data, indicative of an actuation force of the brake. The brake control system includes a reception module to receive the brake signal and the sensor data, and by a processing module to monitor the sensor data during subsequent stages of the braking process, to detect, based on the monitored sensor data, a potential malfunction of the brake, and to issue a warning signal if the potential malfunction is detected.