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Electro-hydraulic brake (EHB) provides improved braking and stability functions such as ABS, TCS, ESC, EBD, etc. It also removes complex mechanical parts for freedom of design, improves maintenance requirements and reduces unit weight. But, the EHB should be at least as reliable as the conventional hydraulic brake system. In this paper, the model-based fault diagnosis system is developed to monitor the brake status using the analytical redundancy method. The performance of the model-based fault diagnosis system is verified in simulations and demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed system in various faulty cases.

Rollover is one of the significant life threatening factors in SUVs (Sports Utility Vehicles). By applying braking or steering, active roll stability controllers help prevent rollover accidents in SUVs. The performance of these controllers is very sensitive to vehicle inertial parameters such as vehicle mass and mass center height. In this paper, a unified estimation method for vehicle mass is proposed considering available driving conditions, where three estimation algorithms are developed based on longitudinal, lateral or vertical vehicle dynamics, respectively. The first algorithm is designed using the longitudinal vehicle dynamics and the recursive least square with the disturbance observer technique for longitudinal traveling case. The second algorithm is designed using the lateral vehicle dynamics where the lateral velocity is estimated with the kinematic vehicle model via the Kalman filter.

Wheel-slip control systems are able to control the braking force more accurately and can be adapted to different vehicles more easily than conventional ABS systems. But, in order to achieve the superior braking performance, real-time information about the vehicle status variables such as wheel slip ratio, tire force, etc is required. In this paper, a wheel slip controller based on the estimated braking force is developed for brake-by-wire systems. The proposed wheel slip control system is composed of the braking force monitor and robust slip controller. In the brake force monitor, the tire braking forces as well as the brake disk-pad friction coefficient are estimated. The robust wheel slip controller using the estimated tire braking force is designed based on the sliding mode control technique. This system determines the braking pressure as the control input and maintains the wheel slip at any given target slip.

Recently, wheel slip controllers with controlling the wheel slip directly have been studied using the brake-by-wire actuator. The wheel slip controller is able to control the braking force more accurately and can be adapted to various different vehicles more easily than the conventional ABS systems. The wheel slip controller requires the information about the tire braking force and road condition in order to achieve the braking and stability control performance. In this paper, the tire braking forces are estimated considering the variation of the friction between brake pad and disk due to aging of the brake, moisture on the contact area or heating. In addition, the road friction coefficient is estimated without using tire models. The estimated performance of tire braking forces and the road friction coefficient is evaluated in simulations.