An air delivery system is operable to on-board compressed air to an associated work vehicle from an associated or auxiliary source such as for example an external large compressor or air storage tank for assisting a tire inflation system (TIS) of the associated work vehicle to expedite tire inflation particularly when transitioning to a desired raised tire pressure, and is further operable to off-board compressed air from a compressor of the TIS system on-board the associated work vehicle for delivery from the TIS to an associated or external compressed air consuming device such as an implement attached with the associated work vehicle or the like. A bi-directional air delivery retrofit kit provides on-boarding and off-boarding of an extra-vehicular compressed air product relative to an associated work vehicle. A dual source air delivery system provides pressurized air to an air storage device from on-board and off-board pressurized air sources.

A method ascertains a deceleration quantity of a brake system of a vehicle, the brake system having at least one brake and at least one additional brake. The method involves the steps of: providing a value of a manipulated variable applied by the brake system, the at least one brake being configured to produce a deceleration quantity in response to the value of the manipulated variable; ascertaining a braking effect that has been applied to the brake system and acts on the vehicle by way of the brake system in response to the manipulated variable; ascertaining a deceleration quantity of the at least one brake, the deceleration quantity corresponding to the value of the manipulated variable and being obtained on the basis of a manipulated variable, in particular taking into account vehicle parameters; and ascertaining a deceleration quantity of the at least one additional brake from the deceleration quantity of the at least one brake and the braking effect on the vehicle, in particular taking into account vehicle parameters.

A brake system includes a first electric power-supply-unit (EPSU) and a first electronic-brake-control-unit (EBCU). The first EBCU is connected to the first EPSU. Also, the brake system includes a second EPSU and a second EBCU, which is connected to the second EPSU. The brake system further includes a first axle-pressure-modulator (APM) for service-brake-chambers associated with a first vehicle-axle. The brake system includes a second APM for spring-brake-cylinders for a second vehicle-axle. The brake system includes two power-supply-switches (PSS). A first PSS is connected to the first EBCU, the second EBCU and the first APM and configured to connect the first EBCU or the second EBCU to the first APM. A second PSS is connected to the first EBCU, the second EBCU and the second APM and configured to connect the first EBCU or the second EBCU to the second APM.

An apparatus for collecting and forwarding sensor signals for vehicles with sensors for monitoring wheel ends, with at least two inputs for sensor signals and at least one output interface for digital signals. The output interface can, for example, be a radio device and the apparatus can include a receiver for radio signals from tire pressure sensors. A method is for operating such an apparatus and includes transferring sensor signal dependent digital signals to the at least one output interface.

A control device for a vehicle includes: an accepting unit configured to accept a first braking request from a plurality of applications that realize a driving assistance function; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a second braking request by a driver operation; an arbitrating unit configured to perform arbitration of the first braking request and the second braking request; and an output unit configured to output a request to an actuator based on a result of the arbitration by the arbitrating unit, wherein the arbitrating unit is configured to, when the acquiring unit acquires the second braking request while the output unit is outputting the request to the actuator, perform the arbitration in which the request that the output unit outputs to the actuator is increased or maintained, based on the second braking request.

The vehicle control apparatus comprises one or more processors, one or more storage media storing a program to be executed by the one or more processors. The program includes one or more instructions. The one or more instructions cause the one or more processors to perform a brake control process in which, after a stroke of a predetermined amount or more is made to a brake pedal by a brake booster to apply brake fluid pressure to the brake mechanism to make the brake fluid pressure in a pressurized state in response to input of a predetermined signal corresponding to detection of theft of the vehicle, the stroke of the brake pedal by the brake booster is cancelled while a first valve disposed in a brake fluid pressure circuit is kept at a closed state to keep the pressurized state of the brake fluid pressure applied to the brake mechanism.

An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control device capable of avoiding the collision with an obstacle by performing an appropriate collision assessment and appropriate driving assistance having considered a detection error of the obstacle. The vehicle control device 100 includes a collision assessment unit 3 which assesses whether or not there is a possibility of an ego vehicle and an obstacle colliding with each other, and a driving assistance control unit 4 which performs driving assistance for avoiding the collision. The collision assessment unit 3 includes a region setting unit 31 which sets an ego vehicle region and an obstacle region, a location prediction unit 33 which predicts future locations of the ego vehicle region and the obstacle region, and an overlap assessment unit 34 which assesses that there is a possibility of collision when the ego vehicle region and the obstacle region overlap at the future location. The region setting unit 31 changes, on the basis of a moving speed of the obstacle, the size of the ego vehicle region and/or the obstacle region from the size of the ego vehicle and/or the obstacle, to thereby set the ego vehicle region and the obstacle region.

A processor for a vehicle includes a vehicle yaw moment instruction calculator, and a mode under which yaw moment of the vehicle is controlled. If the vehicle yaw moment instruction value generates the driving forces or the driving torques, the driving forces or driving torques are different between the left and right wheels. If the vehicle yaw moment instruction value generates the braking forces or the braking torques, the braking forces or the braking torques are different between the left and right wheels. The mode operates at least in transit region between daily region and limit region.

A vehicle brake system device is provided. The vehicle brake system device includes having a signal input apparatus for inputting request signals from a driver of the vehicle which includes a sensor device which gradually detects a degree of operation of a driver-operated operating element between a position which represents non-operation and a position which represents maximum operation, and generates an operating signal which represents this degree of operation. The signal input apparatus also includes an evaluation electronics system into which the sensor device operating signal is introduced for evaluation purposes. In a switched-off state of a vehicle ignition system the sensor device and/or the evaluation electronics system cyclically assume either a standby mode with reduced electrical energy consumption from an electrical energy source in comparison to an operating mode which prevails in the switched-on state of the vehicle ignition system, the reduced energy consumption is an energy consumption level insufficient to ensure operation of the sensor device and/or the evaluation electronics system for detecting and evaluating operation of the operating element as intended, or assume an energy-saving operating mode which ensures operation of the sensor device and/or of the evaluation electronics system to detect and evaluate operation of the operating element.

A processor for a vehicle includes a vehicle yaw moment instruction calculator, and a mode under which yaw moment of the vehicle is controlled. If the vehicle yaw moment instruction value generates the driving forces or the driving torques, the driving forces or driving torques are different between the left and right wheels. If the vehicle yaw moment instruction value generates the braking forces or the braking torques, the braking forces or the braking torques are different between the left and right wheels. The mode operates at least in transit region between daily region and limit region.