Slip-controlled braking system for electrically driven motor vehicles

• US 9,744,862 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2012
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Arbitmann, Maxim, Chen, Zhenfu, Raste, Thomas, Lauer, Peter, Muntu, Matthias, Schmitz, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): Melton, Todd
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROBERSON, JASON R
• Application Number:
  US14/346,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20140257664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,797 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/18 Controlling the braking effect B60L7/12, B60L7/14, B60L7/16 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/26 Controlling the braking effect
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 1/10 by utilising wheel movement for accumulating energy, e.g. driving air compressors
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/746 and mechanical transmission of the braking action
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2270/602 ABS features related thereto
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2270/604 Merging friction therewith; Adjusting their repartition
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2270/613 ESP features related thereto
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/107 with electrical power assistance
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/22 initiated by contact of vehicle, e.g. bumper, with an external object, e.g. another vehicle , or by means of contactless obstacle detectors mounted on the vehicle
• 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 8/17551 determining control parameters related to vehicle stability used in the regulation, e.g. by calculations involving measured or detected parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1761 responsive to wheel or brake dynamics, e.g. wheel slip, wheel acceleration or rate of change of brake fluid pressure
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1766 Proportioning of brake forces according to vehicle axle loads, e.g. front to rear of vehicle

Abstract

A braking system for a motor vehicle, including friction brakes on the wheels of at least one axle, the brakes controlled by a friction brake control device; at least one electric machine connected to at least one wheel and controlled by an electric drive control device; a brake pedal for detecting a deceleration request; a wheel-slip controlling device; and a torque distributing device. The devices for detecting a deceleration request are connected to the wheel-slip controlling device, the wheel-slip controlling device specifying target braking torques for each wheel according to the parameters of the deceleration request. The wheel-slip controlling device connected to a torque distributing device which is connected to the friction brake control device and the electric drive control device and which specifies friction brake requests to the friction brake control device and generator brake requests to the electric drive control device according to the target braking torques.

Claims

1. A brake system for a motor vehicle comprising:

friction brakes on wheels of at least one axle of the motor vehicle, which friction brakes are actuated by a friction brake control device;

at least one electric machine which is connected to at least one wheel and is actuated at least at times as a generator by an electric drive control device;

a sensor for detecting activation of a brake pedal of the motor vehicle;

a torque distribution device; and

a wheel slip control device,

wherein the sensor is connected to the wheel slip control device and the wheel slip control device calculates braking torque values (M_wheel,req) for each wheel in accordance with a deceleration request (a_decel,req) embodied by the activation of the brake pedal,

wherein the wheel slip control device is connected to the torque distribution device and the torque distribution device is connected to the friction brake control device and the electric drive control device, and

wherein the torque distribution device calculates friction braking requests (M_fric,req) to the friction brake control device and generator braking requests (M_reg,req) to the electric drive control device based on the braking torque values calculated by the wheel slip control device, the generator braking requests being calculated based on a current braking torque on at least one of the wheels, and the friction braking requests being calculated based on the braking torque values calculated by the wheel slip control device and the generator braking requests calculated by the torque distribution device.

2. The brake system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wheel slip control device is connected to a state observer which is connected to sensors for sensing at least the wheel speeds (V_wheel) each individual wheel, the yaw rate ({dot over (Ψ

)}) and of the lateral acceleration (a_lat), wherein at least the instantaneously present braking torques (M_wheel,inst) at the individual wheels are determined and taken into account in the calculation of the braking torque values (M_wheel,req).

3. The brake system as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a yawing moment control device which is connected to the state observer and to a steering angle sensor and which compares the setpoint yaw rate, determined at least on the basis of the steering angle, and a measured yaw rate, wherein wheel-specific braking torque values (M_wheel,req) are determined in accordance with the comparison result and fed to the wheel slip control device.

4. The brake system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the torque distribution device is connected to the sensor and the splitting between the friction brake requests (M_fric,req) and the generator braking requests (M_reg,req) is carried out further taking into account at least one of the current deceleration request (a_decel,req) and/or the velocity and/or the steering wheel angle and/or the lateral acceleration (a_lat).

5. The brake system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electric drive control device transmits the currently applied generator braking torque or torques (M_reg,curr) and/or the maximum generator braking torque or torques (M_cap) which can be generated to the torque distribution device, and the splitting between the friction braking requests and the generator braking request or requests is carried out taking into account the generator braking torque or torques which is/are currently applied and/or the maximum generator torque or torques which can be generated.

6. The brake system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an interface with a vehicle data bus via which an electronic control device, which is connected, in particular, to one or more surroundings sensors, transmits a deceleration request.

7. The brake system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the friction brake control device, the wheel slip control device and the torque distribution device are integrated into an electronic control device and are preferably implemented entirely or partially as program code which is executed by a computing unit of the electronic control device.

8. A method for controlling a brake system for a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle comprising:

friction brakes on wheels of at least one axle of the motor vehicle, which friction brakes are actuated by a friction brake control device; and

at least one electric machine which is connected to at least one wheel and can be operated as a generator;

a sensor for detecting activation of a brake pedal of the motor vehicle, a torque distribution device; and

a wheel slip control device,

wherein the sensor is connected to the wheel slip control device and the wheel slip control device calculates braking torque values (M_wheel,req) for each wheel in accordance with a deceleration request (a_decel,req) embodied by the activation of the brake pedal,

wherein the wheel slip control device is connected to the torque distribution device and the torque distribution device is connected to the friction brake control device and the electric drive control device, and

wherein the torque distribution device predefines calculates friction braking requests (M_fric,req) to the friction brake control device and generator braking requests (M_reg,req) to the electric drive control device based on the braking torque values calculated by the wheel slip control device, the generator braking requests being calculated based on a current braking torque on at least one of the wheels, and the friction braking requests being calculated based on the braking torque values calculated by the wheel slip control device and the generator braking requests calculated by the torque distribution device,

wherein the method comprises;

determining a current driving state by a state observer, wherein the current driving state comprises at least the current braking torque on the at least one of the wheels and at least one of two variables of a current wheel speed and a current slip for each individual wheel,

determining wheel-specific braking torque values on the basis of the deceleration request taking into account the current driving state,

splitting the braking torque values for the individual wheels into friction braking requests and a generator braking request/requests, and

activating the friction brakes according to the friction braking requests and operating the electric machine according to the generator braking request/requests.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the generator braking request is determined in accordance with the current braking torque, wherein for a wheel which is connected to a generator the friction braking request is determined on the basis of a comparison of the braking torque values with the generator braking request.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein at least one wheel is assigned an electric machine which is connected to no other wheel, and the generator braking request to the assigned machine is determined on the basis of a characteristic curve K(μ

) which is dependent on the estimated coefficient of friction μ

between the wheel under consideration and a road according to the relationship K(μ

)·

C·

M_wheel with a constant C and the current braking torque M_wheel at the wheel under consideration.