A vehicle stop maintaining system is provided, which includes a foot brake mechanism, a brake force control mechanism having a pressurizer and for braking the vehicle wheels by controlling the pressurizer independently from depression of a brake pedal, a controller for maintaining a vehicle stopped state by operating the brake force control mechanism when the stopped state is detected, and operating an automatic stop control, an automatic stop mode switch for selecting ON/OFF states of the automatic stop control upon receiving an input from a vehicle driver, and a control mechanism for controlling a given mechanism that is different from the brake force control mechanism, and operating the brake force control mechanism in response to a given operation by the driver. When the given operation is performed on the control mechanism by the driver, the controller switches the selected one of the ON/OFF states to the other state.

A brake control device controls a hydraulic brake that generates hydraulic braking force and an electric parking brake that generates parking braking force different from the hydraulic braking force. The brake control device comprises: a detection unit that detects a parking brake operation for causing the electric parking brake to generate the parking braking force; and a control unit that causes the electric parking brake to generate the parking braking force when the hydraulic braking force per wheel generated by the hydraulic brake, after decreasing below the minimum first braking force per wheel required for maintaining the vehicle stop state only by the electric parking brake, is less than the first braking force, in association with the parking brake operation having been performed in a state where the stop state is maintained only by a hydraulic brake operation for causing the hydraulic brake to generate the hydraulic braking force.

Disclosed are an electronic control brake system and a method for controlling the same. The method for controlling an electronic control brake system of a vehicle according to the present disclosure, in which a service brake is configured to provide a braking force by hydraulic pressure to each wheel and a drum in hat (DIH) brake is configured to provide a parking brake force to each of the wheels by pulling a parking cable, the method including determining whether rocking of the vehicle occurs due to a weight shift of the vehicle at the DIH brake on the basis of operation information of an electronic parking brake (EPB) system configured to adjust a braking force of the DIH brake, state information of a transmission gear, and state information of a brake pedal; and when the rocking of the vehicle is determined to occur, automatically operating the service brake.

A controller (104) and method for controlling torque generated by at least one traction motor (116a, 116b) of a vehicle (100) before a vehicle launch, comprising: means to determine that the vehicle is on a positive gradient; means to determine that the vehicle is prevented from roll-back by at least one vehicle brake (111); means to, in dependence on the determining that the vehicle is on a positive gradient and is prevented from roll-back, limit torque generation 10 by the traction motor in response to torque demand; and means to remove the limit when a vehicle launch condition is satisfied.

A method and system include a vehicle control system including a multi-vehicle system. The system includes a controller. The controller determines a slack condition of a multi-vehicle system while the multi-vehicle system is parked. The controller determines the slack condition based on one or more sensor signals received from at least one sensor, the controller configured to control movement of the multi-vehicle system based on the slack condition that is determined while transitioning from being parked to forward motion.

A method for operating a tractive vehicle and a vehicle combination are disclosed. A tractive vehicle includes a first friction brake device for generating a first stopping braking-force, a traction device for generating a tractive force and a control device for controlling at least the traction device. The method includes a step whereby the traction device activated if a first undesired kinematic state is detected. Activation of the traction device would take place in such a way that a tractive force, counteracting the first undesired kinematic state, is generated and provided for deceleration to a standstill and/or for holding the tractive vehicle at a standstill.

At least one embodiment of the present disclosure provides an electric booster brake apparatus including an electric booster unit, an electronic stability control (ESC) operating unit, and an electric-booster control unit. The electric booster unit has a motor, and a motor piston and a master cylinder and pressurizes the master cylinder by adjusting a displacement of the motor piston. The ESC operating unit includes a pressure sensor measuring pressure in the master cylinder and calculates a required braking pressure. The electric-booster control unit controls the position of the motor piston. The electric-booster control unit includes a feedforward control unit for converting the value of the required braking pressure into a motor piston displacement, and a feedback control unit for calculating a compensation displacement of the motor piston based on a difference between the value of the required braking pressure and the value of the pressure in the master cylinder.

A braking control device includes a stop holding controller and an uneven-ground traveling determination unit. After the vehicle makes a stop and a brake operation performed by a driver who drives the vehicle is canceled, the stop holding controller is configured to perform execution of a stop holding control that includes holding braking force of the vehicle and canceling the braking force in response to a predetermined start operation performed by the driver. The uneven-ground traveling determination unit is configured to determine whether the vehicle is traveling on an uneven ground. The stop holding controller is configured to disable the execution of the stop holding control in a case where the uneven-ground traveling determination unit determines that the vehicle is traveling on the uneven ground.

A brake device having an electric parking brake function, capable of appropriately performing stepwise increase control for a clamping force. A control unit including a computing circuit (20), a memory (21), and each motor drive circuit (23) of a parking brake control device (19) includes a stepwise increase control unit configured to increase the clamping force generated by brake pads (33) to a disc rotor (4) in a stepwise manner. When start of contact between the disc rotor (4) and the brake pads (33) caused by feeding of power from the parking brake control device (19) to an electric motor (43B) is detected based on a motor current from a current sensor unit (24), the stepwise increase control unit performs control for repeatedly feeding and stopping power to the electric motor (43B) to increase the clamping force in a stepwise manner in accordance with a predefined processing procedure.

A vehicle starter aid system is provided for a vehicle having at least one driven axle and at least one non-driven axle. An electrically controllable brake system generates brake application signals as a function of input signals for the wheel brake actuators on the at least one driven axle. The inputs signals are received from a rotational speed sensor of the at least one non-driven axle and at least one signal-generator which generates signals which represent intended driving away of the vehicle from the stationary state and are different from the wheel rotational speed signals. An electronic brake control unit controls application of the wheel brake actuators of the at least one driven axle if the rotational speed signals of the rotational speed sensor correspond to zero wheel rotational speed and at the same time the signals of the signal-generator indicate the intended driving away of the vehicle.