According to at least one embodiment, the present disclosure provides an electro-hydraulic brake comprising: a main brake unit configured to provide braking hydraulic pressure to a plurality of wheel cylinders by driving a motor; an auxiliary brake unit connected to the main brake unit to be filled with high-pressure braking hydraulic pressure, and configured to provide braking hydraulic pressure to the plurality of wheel cylinders when an operation error of the main brake unit occurs; a main battery configured to supply power to the main brake unit and the auxiliary brake unit; and an auxiliary battery configured to supply power to the auxiliary brake unit when the main battery fails, wherein the auxiliary brake unit comprises an auxiliary brake control unit that controls charging and discharging of the auxiliary battery, and a power module that monitors a state of the main battery and transmits the state to the auxiliary brake control unit, and a battery management module that monitors a state of charge (SOC) of the auxiliary battery and transmits the state of charge to the auxiliary brake control unit.

A method for controlling a vehicle brake system for a heavy duty vehicle including a primary brake system and an auxiliary brake system. The method includes configuring a wheel slip magnitude limit, obtaining a requested auxiliary brake torque, engaging the primary brake system at a torque determined in dependence of the requested auxiliary brake torque, while monitoring a wheel slip value, determining an allowable auxiliary brake torque in dependence of the requested auxiliary brake torque and the wheel slip value, and engaging the auxiliary brake system at the allowable auxiliary brake torque.

A driving assistance device recognizes traveling environment information on a vehicle, detects a moving object having a speed component from an outside of a traveling road of the vehicle to an inside of the traveling road, determines whether the moving object will collide with the vehicle based on movement information of the vehicle and the moving object, performs execution of emergency braking if a physical quantity indicating a correlation between the vehicle and the moving object is equal to or smaller than a preset threshold, and cancels the execution of the emergency braking if the physical quantity is equal to or smaller than the threshold and a structure that blocks entry of the moving object into the traveling road is present on a movement path of the moving object.

A hydraulic block of an electronic braking device for a vehicle may include: a block body; an input port part disposed on the block body, and connected to an output line of a main braking device to brake a vehicle using hydraulic pressure; an output port part connected to a hydraulic brake line for individually adjusting one or more wheels; and a hydraulic circuit part formed in the block body so as to extend from the input port part to the output port part, and configured to control hydraulic pressure for redundancy of vehicle braking.

A method for operating a brake system of a vehicle. The brake system having: a first and a second actuator for generating a hydraulic pressure in the brake system; a first control device designed to control the first actuator; and a second control device designed to control the second actuator. In the method, the brake system is monitored for emergency braking, wherein the first actuator is controlled by the first control device to generate a first hydraulic pressure for achieving a pre-specified emergency deceleration of the vehicle if emergency braking is detected. The second control device is controlled by the first control device to control the second actuator to generate a second hydraulic pressure when the deceleration that can be or is achieved by means of the first actuator is less than the pre-specified emergency deceleration.

A method and device for controlling brake system based on preceding vehicle recognition are disclosed. The device comprising: a data collecting unit configured to collect front data and rear data of a preceding vehicle, a driving trajectory extracting unit configured to extract a driving trajectory of a lane in which the vehicle is traveling, a preceding vehicle analysis unit configured to determine driving information of the preceding vehicle, a preceding vehicle determining unit configured to determine intervention of the preceding vehicle or deviation of the preceding vehicle with respect to the driving trajectory, and a control unit configured to control the brake system.

Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a method for navigating a user vehicle may include acquiring, using at least one image capture device, a plurality of images of an area in a vicinity of the user vehicle; determining from the plurality of images a first lane constraint on a first side of the user vehicle and a second lane constraint on a second side of the user vehicle opposite to the first side of the user vehicle; enabling the user vehicle to pass a target vehicle if the target vehicle is determined to be in a lane different from the lane in which the user vehicle is traveling; and causing the user vehicle to abort the pass before completion of the pass, if the target vehicle is determined to be entering the lane in which the user vehicle is traveling.

The present disclosure provides an electronic hydraulic brake system that can appropriately provide redundancy braking force, that is, an electronic hydraulic brake system that provides a so-called redundancy function, in the situation in which a driver does not drive or gives less attention to driving such as autonomous driving or smart cruise control and a main braking device malfunctions.

A device for controlling a braking system of a vehicle may include a position sensor device which is designed to detect a position of a brake pedal and/or a piston of a main brake cylinder actuated by the brake pedal at multiple times, a pressure sensor device which is designed to detect a pressure in a fluid located in the cylinder at multiple times, and a control device which is designed to shift a braking assistance device into an activated state. The control device may make the shift when a temporal change of the detected position exceeds a predefined position gradient threshold value and/or if the distance between two detected positions exceeds a predefined position threshold value, wherein the position gradient threshold value or the position threshold value is provided according to a change in the detected pressure.

This disclosure relates to an electrified vehicle configured to address an excess braking request, such as a braking request in excess of what can be met by an energy recovery mechanism, by selectively increasing the drag of the electrified vehicle. A corresponding method is also disclosed. An example electrified vehicle includes an energy recovery mechanism, an actuator configured to adjust a position of a moveable component influencing a drag of the electrified vehicle, and a controller. The controller is configured to instruct the energy recovery mechanism to meet a braking request and, when the braking request cannot be met by the energy recovery mechanism, the controller is configured to instruct the actuator to adjust the position of the moveable component to increase the drag of the electrified vehicle.