A step determination device includes an operation amount sensor that detects an operation amount of a braking operation member, and a controller that determines a step by using the wheel speed and the operation amount. In the step determination device, the controller calculates an actual variable amount by using the wheel speed, calculates an estimated variable amount corresponding to the actual variable amount by using the operation amount, and executes the determination of the step by using the actual variable amount and the estimated variable amount. For example, the controller determines the presence of the step when the deviation between the actual variable amount and the estimated variable amount is not less than a predetermined value, and determines the absence of the step when the deviation is less than the predetermined value.

An apparatus and a method for preventing a vehicle from falling into a sinkhole are provided. The apparatus prevents the vehicle from being unnecessarily stopped by determining whether to stop the vehicle based on a size of the sinkhole while preventing the vehicle from falling into the sinkhole on a road. The apparatus includes a sensor that is mounted on the vehicle to measure a distance to a ground and a controller that determines a size of the sinkhole based on the distance to the ground and determines whether to stop the vehicle while preventing the vehicle from falling into the sinkhole on a road.

A vehicle travel control device includes computation circuitry, and a device controller that controls actuation of a traveling device mounted on a vehicle, based on a result from the computation circuitry. The computation circuitry identifies a vehicle outdoor environment based on an output from image circuitry that acquires image information of vehicle outdoor environment, sets a route on which the vehicle is to travel, in accordance with the vehicle outdoor environment previously identified, determines a target motion of the vehicle to follow the route previously set, calculates a target physical quantity to be executed by the traveling device to achieve the target motion previously determined, and calculates a controlled variable of the traveling device such that the target physical quantity calculated is achieved, and the device controller outputs a control signal to the traveling device so as to control the traveling device to control a motion of the vehicle.

A step determination device includes an operation amount sensor that detects an operation amount of a braking operation member, and a controller that determines a step by using the wheel speed and the operation amount. In the step determination device, the controller calculates an actual variable amount by using the wheel speed, calculates an estimated variable amount corresponding to the actual variable amount by using the operation amount, and executes the determination of the step by using the actual variable amount and the estimated variable amount. For example, the controller determines the presence of the step when the deviation between the actual variable amount and the estimated variable amount is not less than a predetermined value, and determines the absence of the step when the deviation is less than the predetermined value.

The invention relates to a method for improving the control behavior of an electronic motor vehicle braking system which comprises at least a slip control function. Wheel dynamic information which is evaluated as a criterion for initiating a control intervention is used individually for each wheel and is compared with control thresholds for a pressure reduction phase, a pressure maintenance phase, and a pressure buildup phase for generating corresponding braking torques by means of a vehicle braking system. According to the invention, the expected acceleration change of a vehicle wheel is calculated from a pressure change at said wheel, said pressure change being caused by a control intervention; the actual acceleration change at the vehicle wheel, said acceleration change being caused by the pressure change, is determined from measured wheel speeds as wheel dynamic information; and the control behavior of the slip control is adapted when the actual acceleration change deviates from the expected acceleration change by a defined degree such that the deviation is minimized.

A road surface detection system, in one example the system includes a hydraulic unit of an anti-lock braking system, the hydraulic unit including a preload adjuster, and a plurality of pressure sensors configured to generate pressure sensor data. The system also includes a controller configured to receive the pressure sensor data from the plurality of pressure sensors, determine a target preload pressure level, compare the pressure sensor data with the target preload pressure level to calculate a pressure differential between the pressure sensor data and the target preload pressure level, determine a road surface based upon the calculated pressure differential, and regulate the preload adjuster to change the pressure within the hydraulic unit based upon the road surface.

A vehicle brake control device including a front wheel speed acquisition section, a rear wheel speed acquisition section, a front wheel acceleration calculation section, a rear wheel acceleration calculation section, a front wheel anti-lock brake control section capable of executing an anti-lock brake control for the front wheel, a vehicle acceleration acquisition section, and a bad road determination section configured to determine whether or not a running road surface is a bad road based on the front wheel acceleration or the rear wheel acceleration. The bad road determination section executes a bad road determination by selectively using one of the front wheel acceleration and the rear wheel acceleration at least based on information on whether or not the anti-lock brake control for the front wheel is executed and the vehicle acceleration.

A comfort-based self-driving planning method is provided, including the steps of: a) establishing a relationship model of vibration road surface quality and driving comfort on the basis of a vehicle type; b) obtaining road ahead condition parameters, including abnormal condition information, road flatness and road surface anti-slide performance; c) obtaining the road ahead condition parameters, and adjusting a vehicle expected driving trajectory; d) respectively designing vehicle acceleration, deceleration and constant speed processes, and generating a speed change curve; and e) optimizing the speed change curve. Based upon changeable road surface quality and vehicle vibration action mechanism analysis and image-based road surface anti-slide coefficient evaluation technology, a GIS and vehicle-road communication technology are used to acquire road condition parameters, and vehicle acceleration, deceleration and constant speed processes are respectively designed on the basis of changes in the parameters.

A vehicle brake control device including a wheel speed acquisition section, a wheel acceleration calculation section, an anti-lock brake control section, a bad road determination section, and a bad road amount setting section. The wheel acceleration calculation section calculates a first wheel acceleration and a second wheel acceleration. The bad road determination section determines that a running road surface is a bad road when the calculated first wheel acceleration is larger than a first boundary line where the first wheel acceleration increases as the second wheel acceleration is larger in an area where the first wheel acceleration is larger than the second wheel acceleration. The bad road amount setting section increases a bad road amount as the calculated first wheel acceleration is larger when it is determined that a running road surface is a bad road.

The present disclosure relates to a method of inflating a tire and a central tire inflation system. The system has the tire connected to a pressure port for applying an air pressure via a pneumatic line. An ambient air temperature and a target pressure for the tire is received and a tire inflation rate based on the ambient air temperature and the target pressure is calculated. An estimated pressure of the tire based on tire inflation rate is estimated and the tire is inflated at the calculated tire inflation rate. A pressure of the tire is measured and a correction factor based on a ratio between the measured pressure and the estimated pressure is calculated. The tire inflation rate using the correction factor is corrected and the tire is inflated at the corrected tire inflation rate until the target pressure is reached.