A brake system for a motor vehicle including front wheel brakes, rear wheel brakes, and a hydraulic system supplying hydraulic fluid to the wheel brakes. An electronic brake control connected to the hydraulic system actuates the hydraulic system to build up a brake pressure and supply the wheel brakes with the hydraulic fluid. The system includes a parking brake system that activates the rear wheel brakes. The electronic brake control actuates the hydraulic system to build up a brake pressure and at the beginning of an emergency braking procedure closes valves of the hydraulic system associated with the rear wheel brakes, opens valves of the hydraulic system associated with the front wheel brakes, and activates the parking brake system while keeping the valves of the hydraulic system associated with the rear wheel brakes closed for a period of adjustable length.

An autonomous emergency braking system includes a vehicle speed detector, a pedestrian position detector, a pedestrian information storage portion and an electronic control unit which receives the vehicle speed and information of the position of the pedestrian detected by the pedestrian position detector, calculates a time to collision (TTC), predicts a relative position of the pedestrian compared with the vehicle at a point in time after the calculated TTC passes by tracking a moving trajectory of the pedestrian from a time series change in the position of the pedestrian stored in the pedestrian information storage portion, and performs autonomous emergency braking control depending on the predicted relative position of the pedestrian.

The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, a vehicle and a computer-readable storage medium and a computer program product. The method includes obtaining a near-collision warning signal from a collision warning system of the vehicle, the near-collision warning signal being representative of a collision event determined based on sensor data representative of a surrounding environment of the vehicle. The method further includes obtaining an operational position of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle configured for operating the vehicle by means of a one pedal driving control system. Further, the method includes generating, based on the obtained near-collision warning signal, a corresponding negative torque reinforcement factor to be applied to a normal braking force of the vehicle associated with each obtained operational position of the accelerator pedal.

An electric brake system for a vehicle is provided, wherein the vehicle has a brake value encoder, at least one first axle having at least two wheels and a second axle having at least two wheels. A first axle modulator is associated with the first axle. A second axle modulator is associated with the second axle. A single central control unit is further provided, which generates and outputs a first brake signal for the first axle modulator and a second brake signal for the second axle modulator as a function of a brake signal from the brake value encoder or as a function of a further brake request. The first and second axle modulator are each configured to decelerate the wheels of the first and second axle as a function of the first and second brake signal from the central control unit.

A prediction device for at least one brake system component of a brake system of a vehicle. The prediction device is configured for provided value groups which each have values and/or information ascertained during a plurality of driving dynamics regulating processes executed during driver-induced and/or autonomous braking processes of the vehicle and each include an ascertained input variable, a simultaneously ascertained output variable, and an item of friction value or position indication information relating to a roadway simultaneously traveled on by the vehicle, to enter the value groups into a coordinate system having a plurality of target sectors which each correspond to a specified target relation between the input variable and the output variable at a specific friction value, and to estimate whether an occurrence of a functional impairment of a brake system component of the brake system is probable at least during a specified prediction time interval.

A brake control device includes a processor that controls a brake device of a vehicle. The processor receives a first braking request indicating first braking force by the brake device which is requested from an application that implements a driver assistance function of the vehicle. The processor receives a second braking request indicating second braking force by the brake device which is requested depending on an operation amount of a brake pedal of the vehicle. The processor starts override control when the processor receives the second braking request while the processor controls the brake device in accordance with the first braking request.

A braking system including a brake controller to control an actuating drive, a wireless communication unit to receive external data from an external device, an online receiver to receive vehicle data from devices within the vehicle and a portion of the external data and to identify a situation requiring braking as online information, a first offline receiver to receive at the vehicle data from the devices and to identify the situation requiring braking as first offline information, a second offline receiver including sensors to record traffic data and configured to identify the situation requiring braking as second offline information from the traffic data, and a comparator to compare the online information and the first and second offline information and generate a positive or negative result on the basis of the comparison, and transmit a positive result to the brake controller in order to activate the brake controller.

A system and method are provided for estimating progression in vehicle tire wear. A tread depth is stored at a first (e.g., initial or unworn) stage for a given tire, along with a first set of modal frequencies for the tire. At a later (e.g., worn) stage, for example in concert with a controlled excitation of tire structural modes, a second set of corresponding modal frequencies are sensed for the tire, and a tire wear status of the tire is determined at the second stage based on a calculated frequency shift between at least one corresponding modal frequency from each of the first and second sets. In one example, an initial mass of the tire is stored, and a change in mass is calculated based on the calculated frequency shift. Alternatively, a correlation of modal frequency shift may be performed with respect to tread depth for a given tire.

A hydraulic control device for at least one hydraulic aggregate of a brake system, and a brake booster control device, interacting therewith, for an electromechanical brake booster of the brake system. The hydraulic control device includes a first control electronics by which at least one motor target quantity that is to be realized by a motor of the electromechanical brake booster can be determined, taking into account a provided brake actuating strength quantity relating to a current actuation of a brake actuating element, and by which a specification signal corresponding to the at least one determined motor target quantity can be outputted to the brake booster control device. The brake booster control device has a second control electronics that, at least in a normal mode, outputs the control signal to the motor of the electromechanical brake booster, taking into account the specification signal outputted by the hydraulic control device.

A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit configured to: estimate first extending directions of obstacles respectively located on right and left sides of a target parking space in a state where a host vehicle moves across in front of the target parking space; calculate a planned moving path based on the estimated first extending directions; as the host vehicle is guided into the target parking space, estimate second extending directions of the obstacles respectively located on the right and left sides of the target parking space while updating the second extending directions; determine whether the estimated and updated second extending directions satisfy a predetermined condition; and when the updated second extending directions satisfy the predetermined condition, update the planned moving path by using the updated second extending directions instead of the first extending directions or the second extending directions before being updated.