Method and brake system for controlling the braking process in a motor vehicle

• US 6,783,194 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2003
• Issued: 08/31/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pacifica Group Technologies Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Pacifica Group Technologies Pty Limited
• Inventors: Arnold, Armin
• Primary Examiner(s): Siconolfi, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TORRES WILLIAMS, MELANIE
• Application Number:
  US10/345,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20030107265A1
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• Field of Search: 303/139, 303/140, 303/146, 303/150, 303/151, 303/163, 303/167, 701/70, 701/71
• US Class Current: 303/139
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1755 Brake regulation specially adapted to control the stability of the vehicle, e.g. taking into account yaw rate or transverse acceleration in a curve road vehicle drive control systems for control of driving stability otherwise than by controlling a particular sub-unit B60W30/02
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/17636 Microprocessor-based systems

Abstract

A wheelslip is calculated from wheel speed, recorded by speed sensors (6), by a controller (8). A pre-set value for the wheelslip is regulated by means of a proportional controller. Parallel thereto, a set brake pressure for the wheel brakes (3) is fixed, which is determined by the controller (8), by means of the instantaneous wheel torque (Mmomentan) transferred to the ground by the particular wheel (2).

Claims

1. A method for controlling a braking process in a motor vehicle, which comprises:

converting brake actuation signals into brake application forces;

transmitting wheel speeds of at least some of the wheels of the motor vehicle to a control system;

calculating a wheel slip from the wheel speeds, and setting a predefined value for the wheel slip by a proportional control and a setpoint brake pressure defined in parallel therewith; and

setting the control to a longitudinal slip above a maximum of a coefficient of static friction, to thereby reduce a lateral guiding force of the wheel and to thereby stabilize a driving behavior of the motor vehicle.

2. The method according to claim 1, which comprises setting the predefined value for the wheel slip by way of a proportional plus derivative control.

3. The method according to claim 1, which comprises setting the predefined value for the wheel slip by way of a proportional integral control with a relatively very small integral component.

4. The method according to claim 1, which comprises determining the setpoint brake pressure by way of a wheel torque instantaneously transmitted from the wheel to an underlying surface.

5. The method according to claim 1, which comprises determining a wheel torque instantaneously transmitted from the wheel to an underlying surface from a torque balance at the wheel.

6. The method according to claim 1, which comprises determining a wheel torque instantaneously transmitted from the wheel to an underlying surface according to an equation M_inst.=−

M_brake+{dot over (ω

)}·

Θ

, wherein M_brake is a brake torque caused by the brake, {dot over (ω

)} represents wheel acceleration values, and Θ

represents wheel inertia values, and calculating the defined setpoint brake pressure with which intervention into the brake control system is carried out using a wheel brake pressure corresponding to the instantaneously transmitted wheel torque.

7. A brake system with control of the braking process in a motor vehicle, comprising:

wheel speed sensors for sensing respective speeds of the wheels of the motor vehicle and generating sensor signals representing wheel speeds;

a control system configured to receive the sensor signals, to evaluate the sensor signals, and to calculate values for a wheel slip of individual wheels;

said control system including a proportional controller and setting a predefined value for the wheel slip by a proportional control and a setpoint brake pressure defined in parallel therewith;

said control system performing an adjustment in generating control signals for the wheel brakes, said control system determining a setpoint brake pressure and using the setpoint brake pressure, in addition to the adjustment, to set a brake pressure at the wheel brakes for braking the wheels; and

brake actuators connected to receive the control signals and to activate the wheel brakes in accordance therewith.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein said control system is configured to set the control to a longitudinal slip lying above a maximum of a coefficient of static friction and to thereby reduce a lateral guiding force of the wheel and stabilize a driving behavior of the motor vehicle.

9. The brake system according to claim 7, wherein said control system is configured to determine the setpoint brake pressure by way of the wheel torque instantaneously transmitted from the respective wheel to an underlying surface.

10. The brake system according to claim 7, wherein said control system is configured to determine the wheel torque instantaneously transmitted from the respective wheel to a underlying surface from a torque balance at the wheel.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein the setpoint brake pressure is determined by means of the wheel torque which is transmitted from the wheel to the underlying surface instantaneously.

15. The method according to claim 10, wherein the wheel torque which is transmitted from the wheel to the underlying surface instantaneously is determined from the torque balance at the wheel.

16. The method according to claim 10, wherein the wheel torque which is transmitted from the wheel to the underlying surface instantaneously is determined according to the equation M_inst=−

M_brake+{dot over (ω

)}·

Θ

wherein M_brake is the brake torque caused by the brake, ω

is the wheel acceleration values and Θ

is the wheel inertia values, and in that the defined setpoint brake pressure with which intervention into the brake control system is carried out is calculated using a wheel brake pressure which corresponds to this transmitted wheel torque.

17. The method according to claim 10, wherein, by setting the control to a longitudinal slip above the maximum of the coefficient of static friction, the lateral guiding force of the wheel is reduced, and the driving behavior of the motor vehicle is thus stabilized.

11. A method for controlling a braking process in a motor vehicle, which comprises the steps of:

converting brake actuation signals into brake application forces;

transmitting signals representing wheel speeds of at least some of the wheels to a control system;

calculating a wheel slip by the control system from the wheel speeds; and

setting a predefined value for a wheel slip by a proportional control and a setpoint brake pressure defined in parallel therewith.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the predefined value for the wheel slip is set by means of a proportional plus derivative control.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the predefined value for the wheel slip is set by means of a proportional integral control with a very small integral component.