A disc brake system includes a first brake pad having a first type of friction material, a second brake pad having a second type of friction material different from the first type of friction material, and a poshrod arrangement configured to apply force in varying amounts on both the first brake pad and the second brake pad, the poshrod arrangement comprising an actuator movable to different, positions relative to the first brake pad and the second brake pad to vary a percentage of total braking force applied by the first brake pad and the second brake pad. A method for braking a vehicle is also provided.

Disclosed is a number of variations that may include a method, system, or computer product useful in determining an intended yaw or yaw rate that a driver desires using a model, comparing the yaw or yaw rate with the actual vehicle yaw or yaw rate to determining a yaw error or yaw rate error, using the yaw error or yaw rate error in a model predictive control to determine the brake pressure required to minimize or reduced to zero the yaw error or the yaw rate error.

A vehicle control apparatus is configured to: obtain, based on a predetermined lateral acceleration for a trajectory calculation, a steering start time threshold which is a time which it takes for a host vehicle to collide with an object at a time point at which a driver of the host vehicle has to start steering the host vehicle in order to avoid a collision between the host vehicle and the object; and start an automatic braking, when an obtained predicted time to collision becomes shorter than or equal to either one of the steering start time threshold and an automatic braking start time threshold, whichever is shorter. The automatic braking start time threshold is a time which it takes for the host vehicle to collide with the object at a time point at which the automatic braking has to be started in order to avoid the collision between the host vehicle and the object.

A method for operating a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has an axle having a first and a second wheel coupled to one another by a differential gear. The wheels are also assigned a drive apparatus having an activatable first actuator via the differential gear. The first wheel, assigned to a left side of the motor vehicle, is assigned a first wheel braking apparatus having an activatable second actuator, and the second wheel, assigned to a right side, is assigned a second wheel braking apparatus having an activatable third actuator. A torque target value is specified according to a braking request, the first actuator is activated at least according to the torque target value for fulfilling the braking request, and the second and the third actuators are activated according to a difference between an actual speed of the first wheel and an actual speed of the second wheel.

A method of adjusting test braking pulses during stability control of a vehicle (10) including the steps of: applying a first test braking pulse to at least one wheel of the vehicle (10), the application of the test braking pulse comprising operating a brake actuator (112) to apply a low level braking pressure of the wheel, determining a first longitudinal acceleration (A.sub.Long1) of the vehicle (10) during the test braking pulse, obtaining a second longitudinal acceleration (A.sub.Long2) indicative of the longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle (10) when a test braking pulse is not being applied, calculating a change in longitudinal acceleration during the test braking pulse, and determining whether the change in longitudinal acceleration is acceptable, and if not, adjusting the level of the braking pressure applied in a subsequent test braking pulse.

A method for setting a heavy duty vehicle in motion. The method includes obtaining a motion instruction for setting the vehicle in motion, determining a target wheel slip value corresponding to a wheel slip suitable for executing to the motion instruction, and controlling wheel speed to maintain wheel slip of the vehicle at the target wheel slip value.

A method for operating a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle includes at least one axle having a wheel, and wherein the wheel is assigned a wheel braking device having a controllable actuator, in particular electric machine. The actuator is controlled, depending on a braking request, selectively with a continuous or a cyclic control of an operating point of the actuator for implementing a requested braking force and/or a requested braking torque.

A vehicle brake system includes: a plurality of wheel cylinders, a main pressure building module, a redundant pressure building module and a brake master cylinder assembly; the main pressure building module is separately connected to the plurality of wheel cylinders and is used for conveying a brake fluid to the plurality of wheel cylinders; the redundant pressure building module is connected to at least one wheel cylinder and is used for conveying the brake fluid to the at least one wheel cylinder; and the brake master cylinder assembly is separately connected to the plurality of wheel cylinders and is used for conveying the brake fluid to the plurality of wheel cylinders. Further disclosed is a vehicle.

An intelligent driving decision-making method, device, storage medium, and electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: determining, based on driving data detected by a vehicle, a first motion parameter of the vehicle, a second motion parameter of a target object with a collision risk relative to the vehicle, and a safety margin; determining, based on the first motion parameter and the second motion parameter, a time to collision at which the vehicle is predicted to collide with the target object, and an intersection relationship between the vehicle and the target object in an image domain during a collision period from the current time to a collision time; determining, based on the first motion parameter, the second motion parameter, the safety margin, and the time to collision, an emergency braking decision-making result in response to the time to collision being less than or equal to the preset duration threshold and the intersection relationship being an intersection; performing intelligent driving of the vehicle based on the emergency braking decision-making result.

A vehicular driving assist system includes a plurality of cameras and a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle. The plurality of sensors includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a plurality of radar sensors and a plurality of lidar sensors. Electronic circuitry of an electronic control unit includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the cameras and a processor for processing sensor data captured by the sensors. The system, while the vehicle is travelling in a forward direction and responsive to processing of image data captured by the cameras and sensor data captured by the sensors, is operable to determine presence of an object approaching a path of travel of the vehicle. The system, responsive to determining presence of the object approaching the path of travel of the vehicle, communicates an alert to a driver of the vehicle.