A driver assistance apparatus for a vehicle including an interface unit; and a processor that receives driving situation information and data about an object outside the vehicle through the interface unit, and determines an operation sensitivity of an autonomous emergency braking (AEB) operation corresponding to the object based on the received driving situation information, and generates control signal of the AEB operation to control a braking operation of the vehicle based on the determined operation sensitivity.

A control system for a motor vehicle automatically activates or deactivates a parking lock or an automatic roll-away prevention facility. The control system has at least one electronic control unit which is designed such that limited maneuvering operation is possible within set boundary conditions in accordance with predefined embarking conditions and in accordance with predefined disembarking conditions, an identified intentional maneuvering demand of the driver after prior automatic roll-away prevention of the vehicle being defined as a predefined embarking condition. The limited maneuvering operation may be activatable both in the case of an activated motor and in the case of a deactivated motor proceeding from a secured state. Depending on the differently defined disembarking conditions that are satisfied, a transition can be made from the limited maneuvering operation either into the secured state, or driving operation can be permitted if the defined conditions for the automatically secured state are no longer present.

A parking brake apparatus is provided for a vehicle having components of a parking brake system and a number of devices providing a plurality of output signals indicative of a plurality of vehicle factors. The parking brake apparatus comprises an electronic controller arranged to (i) monitor the output signals indicative of a plurality of vehicle factors, and (ii) provide one or more control signals to be applied to components of the parking brake system to apply parking brakes based upon a predefined sequence of the plurality of vehicle factors having been met.

A parking brake apparatus is provided for an autonomously drivable vehicle having components of a parking brake system for applying a parking brake. The parking brake apparatus comprises a first controller arranged to provide one or more control signals to be applied to components of the parking brake system to apply the parking brake in response to a signal requesting the parking brake to be applied. The parking brake apparatus also comprises a second controller arranged to provide one or more control signals to be applied to other components of the parking brake system to apply the parking brake in response to unavailability of the first controller to cause the parking brake to be applied.

A braking system for a motor vehicle includes a hydraulic service brake for braking the motor vehicle in driving operation, an electric parking brake for holding the motor vehicle at a standstill, and an electronic control system for automatically controlling the parking brake and the service brake. The electronic control system may be adapted to activate the parking brake, with the service brake activated, after the motor vehicle has been braked to the standstill via the activated service brake, and to at least partly deactivate the activated service brake after the parking brake has been activated. The electronic control system may also be adapted to deactivate the activated parking brake following operation of an accelerator pedal of the motor vehicle.

An automated-parking control unit prevents a brake noise during braking, when causing a vehicle to start moving forward or backward. The automated-parking control unit includes: an environment recognizer to recognize environment of a vehicle; a behavior controller to execute behavior control inclusive of steering and acceleration/deceleration, based on recognized information; a brake hold instructor to suspend the vehicle with the behavior control and hold the suspension until receiving behavior-related operation by a driver; and a brake fluid pressure controller, when the vehicle is made to start moving forward or backward, to estimate a range having a brake noise and increase a change rate of a brake fluid pressure in a brake-noise range having a brake noise, as compared with that in a no-brake-noise range.

The present disclosure relates to a vehicle and a parking control method therefor which can prevent a parking curb or a driving system from being damaged during parking due to collision with the parking curb or running over the parking curb according to creep torque imitation by an electric motor in a vehicle equipped with the electric motor. A parking control method includes determining whether a parking situation occurs, applying a creep torque modification coefficient to a creep torque until contact with an object that applies a reaction force to a wheel in a parking direction is sensed to determine a modified creep torque upon determining the parking situation, and variably controlling the creep torque by applying a variable coefficient to the modified creep torque.

A parking assist system is configured to autonomously move a vehicle to a target parking position. The parking assist system includes: a distance acquiring unit configured to acquire a distance between the vehicle and a vehicle stopper provided in the target parking position; and a control unit configured to control a movement of the vehicle to the target parking position based on the distance acquired by the distance acquiring unit.

A brake noise at stationary steering is prevented while brake hold being in operation, in automated steering with parking assist control. An automated-parking control unit includes: an environment recognizer to recognize environment of a vehicle; a behavior controller to execute behavior control inclusive of steering and acceleration/deceleration, based on recognized information; a brake hold instructor to suspend the vehicle with the behavior control and hold the vehicle suspended until receiving behavior-related operation by a driver; an automated-parking controller to set a reverse-steering position, based on a current position of the vehicle and a desired parking position decided by the driver, between the current position and the desired parking position, move the vehicle from the current position to the reverse-steering position, and execute stationary steering at the reverse-steering position; and a brake fluid pressure controller to increase a brake fluid pressure when stationary steering is executed at the reverse-steering position.

A method for operating an electropneumatic parking brake system of a vehicle combination, which includes a tractor vehicle and a trailer vehicle, includes activating, after a parking operation and braking of the vehicle combination, a trailer check function in a standstill state. The trailer check function enables a check as to whether, in the case of a decrease in the braking action of the trailer vehicle, the vehicle combination can be held in a stationary manner solely by way of the braking action of a parking brake of the tractor vehicle. The trailer check function is carried out automatically when a vehicle combination has been braked in a stationary manner independently by way of an automatic parking function.