A brake force control method includes: obtaining temperature data of a braking system of a vehicle and driving data of the vehicle during braking of the vehicle; and controlling a brake force output from a brake motor in the braking system according to the temperature data and the driving data.

An apparatus for forward collision avoidance of a host vehicle includes a first sensor configured to detect a front of a vehicle; a second sensor configured to a speed of the host vehicle; and a controller that is communicatively connected to the first sensor and the second sensor and is configured to generate a collision warning based on a braking distance of the host vehicle and a braking tendency of a driver of the host vehicle.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for controlling a braking torque of a vehicle while travelling in an at least semiautomated manner. Standstill data is received, while the vehicle is traveling in the at least semiautomated manner on an incline and/or a decline, when a temporary standstill of the vehicle is requested by the assistance system. Speed values are continuously received that describe a speed of the vehicle while the vehicle is decelerating prior to the temporary standstill. Slope data is continuously determined that describes an angle of the incline or decline. An amended speed value is continuously computed that depends on the speed value and the slope data. An electronic control signal is output to control the braking torque to bring the vehicle to the temporary standstill when the amended speed value decreases below a predetermined threshold value and the standstill data are received.

An automatic emergency braking device, which is configured to prevent delay and malfunction of an automatic emergency brake when a vehicle enters an opposite lane, includes a collision determination unit that executes a collision determination for determining a possibility of collision between the vehicle and an oncoming vehicle. The automatic emergency braking device further includes a brake control unit that activates the automatic emergency brake according to the determination result of the collision determination, and an execution timing change unit that changes the execution timing of the collision determination. The execution timing change unit includes a determination unit that determines whether a prediction condition indicating prediction of entry of the vehicle to the opposite lane is satisfied, and a setting unit that, when the condition is satisfied, sets the execution timing of the collision determination earlier than the timing in the case where the condition is not satisfied.

Disclosed herein is an emergency braking system using an electronic parking brake according to the present disclosure, in which the emergency braking system is configured to provide an emergency braking using an electronic parking brake (EPB) in case of total or partial failure of a main braking system, and includes: an EPB actuator configured to apply an emergency braking force to a wheel; a slip detection unit configured to detect a wheel slip on the wheel equipped with the EPB actuator; an EPB control unit configured to determine a road surface condition by calculating a slip ratio through slip information transmitted from the slip detection unit, and to control an operation of the EPB actuator based on the road surface condition.

A braking system for a motorcycle may have at least (a) a first brake associated with a front wheel of the motorcycle, at least a first electro-hydraulic or electro-mechanical actuator, operatively connected to the first brake, (b) at least a first manual actuation command, associated with and corresponding to the at least one first brake, to send a braking request from a user, (c) at least a second brake associated with a rear wheel of the motorcycle, (d) at least a second electro-hydraulic or electro-mechanical actuator, operatively connected to the second brake, (e) at least a second manual actuation command, associated with and corresponding to the at least one second brake, to send a brake request from a user, and (f) a control unit operatively connected to the first manual actuation command, to the second manual actuation command and to the first and second electro-hydraulic or electro-mechanical actuators.

A method of outputting a notification in a driver environment of a vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining topographic data representative of the topography of an upcoming road segment, identifying an upcoming downhill slope in the upcoming road segment, obtaining, based on the topographic data, a speed estimate representative of a maximum allowable speed of the vehicle upon reaching the upcoming downhill slope for keeping the speed of the vehicle below a threshold speed in the upcoming downhill slope while using a predetermined braking amount of wheel brakes of the vehicle, and outputting a notification indicating the speed estimate in the driver environment before the vehicle reaches the upcoming downhill slope. The present disclosure further relates to a computer program, a computer-readable medium, a control arrangement, and a vehicle.

A system and method are provided for brake temperature estimation of a trailer. The incline of the surface along which the trailer is being towed is sensed, as well as a brake line pressure to the trailer and the speed. A braking count is derived from braking time periods and a downhill count is derived from downhill driving time periods. An indicator of the brake temperature is then based on the braking count and the downhill count.

A method for controlling deceleration of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle has a braking system having a braking actuation lever, a braking actuator, and at least one braking device. The method involves measuring a current lever position of the braking actuation lever and a current lever speed of the braking actuation lever, dynamically mapping the current lever position and the current lever speed, processing a deceleration curve as a function of the dynamic mapping, and decelerating the vehicle according to the deceleration curve for each current lever position measured in a lever stroke.

Methods for reducing brake wear during aircraft taxiing are disclosed. As one example, a method comprises determining a sequence to apply brakes of a given set of landing gear during a brake event, wherein the determining includes selecting a warmer brake of the brakes to initially apply at a start of the brake event, and selecting a cooler brake of the brakes to subsequently apply when the warmer brake is released during the brake event. The method further comprises applying the warmer brake and the cooler brake in the determined sequence during the brake event. In another example, an aircraft brake system comprises brakes and a controller that is programmed to, during taxiing, apply a warmer subset of the brakes before applying a cooler subset of the brakes during a brake event.