Systems and methods for adaptive braking using brake wear data
First Claim
1. An adaptive control system of a vehicle that includes both regenerative brakes and friction brakes, comprising:
- one or more processors;
a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing;
a brake wear module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to identify whether brake wear of at least one of the friction brakes satisfies a threshold for modifying a deceleration pattern of the vehicle, wherein the deceleration pattern indicates how the regenerative brakes and the friction brakes are engaged to decelerate the vehicle individually for each wheel of the vehicle, andwherein the deceleration pattern indicates at least an amount of simultaneous blending between using the friction brakes and using the regenerative brakes to decelerate the vehicle; and
a deceleration module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to adjust, prior to receiving a control input to activate braking in the vehicle, the deceleration pattern according to at least the brake wear of the at least one of the friction brakes to transition braking from the at least one of the friction brakes to the regenerative brakes, andwherein the deceleration module includes instructions to control the vehicle to decelerate according to the deceleration pattern upon receiving a control input.
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Abstract
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to adapting a manner of braking according to brake wear of friction brakes of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying whether brake wear of at least one of the friction brakes satisfies a threshold for modifying a deceleration pattern of the vehicle. The deceleration pattern indicates how regenerative brakes and the friction brakes are engaged to decelerate the vehicle individually for each wheel of the vehicle. The method includes adjusting the deceleration pattern according to at least the brake wear of the at least one of the friction brakes to transition braking from the at least one of the friction brakes to the regenerative brakes. The method includes controlling the vehicle to decelerate according to the deceleration pattern upon receiving a control input.
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20 Claims
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1. An adaptive control system of a vehicle that includes both regenerative brakes and friction brakes, comprising:
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one or more processors; a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing; a brake wear module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to identify whether brake wear of at least one of the friction brakes satisfies a threshold for modifying a deceleration pattern of the vehicle, wherein the deceleration pattern indicates how the regenerative brakes and the friction brakes are engaged to decelerate the vehicle individually for each wheel of the vehicle, and wherein the deceleration pattern indicates at least an amount of simultaneous blending between using the friction brakes and using the regenerative brakes to decelerate the vehicle; and a deceleration module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to adjust, prior to receiving a control input to activate braking in the vehicle, the deceleration pattern according to at least the brake wear of the at least one of the friction brakes to transition braking from the at least one of the friction brakes to the regenerative brakes, and wherein the deceleration module includes instructions to control the vehicle to decelerate according to the deceleration pattern upon receiving a control input. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
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identify, for a vehicle that includes both friction brakes and regenerative brakes, whether brake wear of at least one of the friction brakes satisfies a threshold for modifying a deceleration pattern of the vehicle, wherein the deceleration pattern indicates how the regenerative brakes and the friction brakes are engaged to decelerate the vehicle individually for each wheel of the vehicle, and wherein the deceleration pattern indicates at least an amount of simultaneous blending between using the friction brakes and using the regenerative brakes to decelerate the vehicle; adjust, prior to receiving a control input to activate braking in the vehicle, the deceleration pattern according to at least the brake wear of the at least one of the friction brakes to transition braking from the at least one of the friction brakes to the regenerative brakes; and control the vehicle to decelerate according to the deceleration pattern upon receiving a control input. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of adapting braking in a vehicle that includes both regenerative brakes and friction brakes, comprising:
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identifying whether brake wear of at least one of the friction brakes satisfies a threshold for modifying a deceleration pattern of the vehicle, wherein the deceleration pattern indicates how the regenerative brakes and the friction brakes are engaged to decelerate the vehicle individually for each wheel of the vehicle, and wherein the deceleration pattern indicates at least an amount of simultaneous blending between using the friction brakes and using the regenerative brakes to decelerate the vehicle; adjusting, prior to receiving a control input to activate braking in the vehicle, the deceleration pattern according to at least the brake wear of the at least one of the friction brakes to transition braking from the at least one of the friction brakes to the regenerative brakes; and controlling the vehicle to decelerate according to the deceleration pattern upon receiving a control input. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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