A failure detection and correction function which is able to detect a failure of an automatic braking system, and provide a corrected action. The failure detection and correction function is independent of the automatic braking function. The failure detection and correction function uses object coordinates and the speed of the vehicle to determine the collision risk, and then calculates a desired deceleration if there is imminent collision. The function uses desired deceleration to compare to a deceleration request from automatic braking function to determine if there is a failure. The failure detection and correction function takes corrected action to avoid the collision if the automatic braking function has failed.

Systems and methods are disclosed for adaptive regeneration systems for electric vehicles. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining, by an adaptive regeneration system, that an electric vehicle is decelerating, determining an output voltage of a power source at the electric vehicle, determining that a voltage potential of a battery system at the electric vehicle is greater than the output voltage, and causing the voltage potential of the battery system to be modified to a value equal to or less than the output voltage.

A method for detecting an erroneous velocity data using a controller in communication with a velocity sensor onboard a vehicle includes receiving a time-series velocity data from the velocity sensor, calculating a time-series acceleration data using the time-series velocity data, calculating a time-series jerk data using the time-series acceleration data, calculating a saturated (numerically bounded) jerk data using the time-series jerk data, calculating an estimated acceleration data using the saturated jerk data, calculating a difference between the estimated acceleration data and the time-series acceleration data, and determining whether the difference is greater than a threshold value. The erroneous velocity data is detected in response to the difference being greater than the threshold value.

An automatic braking system for a vehicle includes a sensor system configured to detect the previous speed of the vehicle, occupancy of a driver's seat of the vehicle, and an input to at least one of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle and a brake pedal of the vehicle. The automatic braking system also includes a control module communicatively connected to the sensor system and configured to automatically brake the vehicle when the vehicle was previously stopped, the driver's seat is occupied, and there is no input to the accelerator pedal or the brake pedal.

A brake control apparatus includes a deceleration control part that decelerates a vehicle either in a first brake control mode using a main brake and an auxiliary brake that uses discrete deceleration values, or in a second brake control mode using the main brake without the auxiliary brake, a determination part that determines whether or not occupants in the vehicle are seated in seats of the vehicle, and a selection part that selects the first brake control mode if the determination part determines that the occupants are seated in the seats, and selects the second brake control mode if the determination part determines that the occupant is not seated in the seat.

The present disclosure relates to a system and method of detecting a brake fluid leakage for detecting whether a brake fluid of a vehicle is leaking and a position of the leakage. The method of detecting a brake fluid leakage according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes detecting a level of the brake fluid stored, detecting whether the vehicle is braking, and diagnosing whether the brake fluid is leaking and the position of the leakage when the level of the brake fluid falls below a reference level and a state of the vehicle is detected as a non-braking state.

A parking brake system of a tipper vehicle having a tiltable tipper body is described. The system comprises a parking brake having a brake chamber which is pressurizable for releasing the parking brake. A valve device is in fluid communication with the brake chamber, the valve device comprising an exhaust port. The valve device has an activated state in which the brake chamber is in fluid communication with the exhaust port whereby air from the brake chamber is discharged, thereby applying the parking brake, and an inactivated state in which said fluid communication is disconnected. Upon receipt of a tipping signal, a neutral gear signal and a low speed signal, and upon detecting that the parking brake is still in the released state, the valve device is changed from the inactivated state to the activated state in order to exhaust air from the brake chamber, causing the parking brake to become changed to the applied state.

The present disclosure relates to an autonomous emergency braking system and a method. More specifically, the autonomous emergency braking system according to the present disclosure includes: a sensor that includes a gravity sensor detecting a force of gravity applied to a host vehicle and a vehicle-speed sensor detecting a vehicle speed of the host vehicle; an inclination determiner that determines an inclination of a road surface on which the host vehicle is traveling based on the vehicle speed of the host vehicle and the force of gravity; and a controller that adjusts an AEB warning time based on the determined inclination of the road surface.

A vehicle which adopts a control device as a braking control device includes a sensor that acquires a rotation angle of a wheel. The control device includes a first distance calculation unit, a second distance calculation unit, and a braking control unit. The first distance calculation unit sets a braking force corresponding to a braking operation member operation amount as a reference braking force, estimates vehicle longitudinal acceleration based on the reference braking force, and calculates a braking force reference distance estimating a moving distance until the vehicle stops based on the longitudinal acceleration. The second distance calculation unit calculates a wheel reference distance estimating the vehicle moving distance based on a detection signal of the sensor and a wheel diameter. The braking control unit executes feedback control for controlling the vehicle braking force so that a difference between the braking force reference distance and the wheel reference distance decreases.

Disclosed is a method performed by a control arrangement for controlling a speed of a first vehicle comprising a plurality of brake systems configured to provide brake power for braking the vehicle. The method comprises, when a downhill road section is to be travelled, and when a second vehicle is travelling in front of the first vehicle predicting a plurality of minimum distances corresponding to different brake powers to be applied by at least one of the plurality of brake systems when approaching and/or travelling the downhill road section, each minimum distance constituting a resulting minimum distance to the second vehicle. The method further comprises applying, by at least one of the plurality of brake systems, a brake power corresponding to the brake power to be applied to obtain the minimum distance of the plurality of minimum distances such that at least a predetermined minimum distance to the second vehicle is maintained when approaching and/or travelling the downhill road section.