An object of the present invention is to prevent a cost increase and an increase in an installation space due to a redundant arrangement of a vehicle motion control apparatus. A vehicle control apparatus includes an input portion configured to receive an input of a target state from a vehicle motion control controller equipped with a first vehicle motion control function configured to determine the target state for achieving a target route input from an autonomous driving controller, a first control portion configured to control a motion state based on the target state input from the input portion, and a second control portion equipped with a second vehicle motion control function configured to determine the target state for achieving the target route input from the autonomous driving controller and configured to control the motion state based on the target state input from the input portion.

A braking system for an aircraft is disclosed herein. The braking system may comprise: a brake assembly; a hydraulic braking subsystem having a hydraulic brake actuator configured to operate the brake assembly; an electric braking subsystem and a hydraulic braking subsystem. During a flight, one of the electric braking subsystem and the hydraulic braking subsystem may be selected as a primary braking system. The braking system may be configured to command braking of a brake assembly by the hydraulic braking subsystem and the electric braking subsystem during an RTO phase of the flight. The braking system may be configured to command braking of a brake assembly by a secondary braking system in response to a failure of a primary braking system during the RTO phase of the flight.

A brake control system (BCS) may comprise a shutoff valve configured to receive pressurized fluid, a one-way check valve configured to route the pressurized fluid, a first pressure transducer coupled between the one-way check valve and the shutoff valve, and an accumulator configured to supply pressurized fluid to a brake control valve module (BCVM) in response to the shutoff valve being in a closed position.

A brake system control unit for a vehicle having a hydraulic vehicle brake and electromechanical brake device comprises a microcontroller, a system ASIC and a brake motor ASIC, wherein the microcontroller is connected to the system ASIC and the brake motor ASIC via communication interfaces. In the brake motor ASIC, an interrogation signal sequence for interrogating the switched state of an actuation switch of the electromechanical brake device is generated.

Systems and methods are provided for detecting an object and causing a vehicle to brake based on the detection. In one implementation, an object detecting and braking system for a vehicle includes at least one image capture device configured to acquire a plurality of images of an area including an object in front of the vehicle. The system includes at least one processing device programmed to perform a first image analysis to determine a first estimated time-to-collision of the vehicle with the object, and to perform a second image analysis to determine a second estimated time-to-collision of the vehicle with the object. The processing device is also programmed to calculate a difference between the first estimated time-to-collision and the second estimated time-to-collision, to determine that the difference does not exceed a predetermined threshold, and to cause the vehicle to brake based on the determination that the difference does not exceed the predetermined threshold.

The invention relates to an actuator system, in particular an electromechanical parking brake system, comprising an actuator, wherein the actuator is driven by a direct current motor that can be driven in both directions of rotation, wherein a control unit for controlling the movement of the direct current motor in an open-loop or closed-loop manner is provided. The core of the invention is that one or more pieces of information are supplied to a control unit, said information allowing the application force exerted by the electromotive actuator to be determined and compared to a predetermined minimum application force, and wherein the control unit emits at least one piece of information, signal or the like for requesting an auxiliary actuation to peripheral systems, components and/or electronic control units after the target to actual value comparison has shown that the determined, set application force is smaller than the predetermined minimum application force.

An electromechanical brake system for a motor vehicle. The brake system includes four wheel brake devices, four primary electric motors, four secondary electric motors, four control devices, and a backup control device. The control devices and/or the backup control device are designed to acquire and/or evaluate sensor data from sensors assigned to the wheel brake devices and/or the motor vehicle. Each of the wheel brake devices is respectively assigned one of the primary electric motors and one of the secondary electric motors in each case for operating the respective wheel brake devices. For actuating the electric motors, each of the control devices is respectively assigned to one of the primary electric motors of one of the wheel brake devices and the backup control device is assigned to the four secondary electric motors of the wheel brake devices.

A test unit for an actuation device of an electrical apparatus is configured as an ASIC and includes a test circuit configured to generate a voltage test sequence, a memory configured to store a response pattern, and an analysis unit configured to compare the response pattern with a reference pattern.

A controller for a brake may comprise an error detector configured to determine an error in a motor angular position signal and a synthetic angle generator configured to generate a synthetic motor angular position signal. The controller may control an actuator motor via the synthetic motor angular position signal in response to the error in the motor angular position signal being determined. In various embodiments, the synthetic motor angular position may cause the controller to retract an electromechanical brake actuator.

A system for controlling the positions of a caliper and a cable of an electric parking brake (EPB) includes: an actuator driving motor used for engaging and disengaging a parking brake of an EPB system; an electronic control module for controlling the motor; and a vehicle battery for supplying power to the motor and the electronic control module, wherein the electronic control module includes a ripple measuring unit for measuring the ripple of the motor by receiving an output signal of the motor and a current measuring unit for measuring a change in the driving current of the motor.