This book examines differences in two main brake system technologies: hydraulically activated and electromechanical brakes. It offers the reader a structured and detailed treatment of the uses of control in various aspects of modern automotive braking systems.

Active Braking Control Design for Road Vehicles focuses on two main brake system technologies: hydraulically-activated brakes with onoff dynamics and electromechanical brakes, tailored to brake-by-wire control. The physical differences of such actuators enjoin the use of different control schemes so as to be able fully to exploit their characteristics. The authors show how these different control approaches are complementary, each having specific peculiarities in terms of either performance or of the structural properties of the closed-loop system. They also consider other problems related to the design of braking control systems, namely: • longitudinal vehicle speed estimation and its relationship with braking control system design; • tireroad friction estimation; • direct estimation of tireroad contact forces via in-tire sensors, providing a treatment of active vehicle braking control from a wider perspective linked to both advanced academic research and industrial reality.

Extensive industrial collaboration during the research presented ensures that results are relevant in the real world as well as in pure academic research Discusses the differences in control systems necessary for two widely-used forms of braking system Offers the reader a structured and detailed treatment, not matched elsewhere, of the uses of control in various aspects of modern automotive braking systems, contributing to vehicle safety and ride quality Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Sergio M. Savaresi is Full Professor in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano since 2006 and head of the 'mOve' research team.

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Active Braking Control Systems Design for Vehicles focuses on two main brake system technologies: hydraulically-activated brakes with onoff dynamics and electromechanical brakes, tailored to brake-by-wire control. The physical differences of such actuators enjoin the use of different control schemes so as to be able fully to exploit their characteristics. The design of such control systems forms the core of this monograph. The authors show how these different control approaches are complementary, each having specific peculiarities in terms of either performance or of the structural properties of the closed-loop system. They also consider other problems closely related to the design of braking control systems, namely:

• longitudinal wheel slip estimation and its relationship with braking control system design;

• tyreroad friction estimation;

• direct estimation of tyreroad contact forces via in-tyre sensors, with the aim of providing a comprehensive treatment of active vehicle braking control from a wider perspective linked to both advanced academic research and industrial reality.

The high degree of cooperation with the automotive industry in the research which generated much of the work presented here, coupled with survey sections in which problems and methodologies are introduced in a historical and tutorial framework, makes this book accessible from three standpoints: a methodological one for academic research; an application-oriented one for automotive engineers and practitioners; and a source of study and tuition for graduate students interested in vehicle control systems.

Inhalt
Braking Control Systems Design: Introduction and Modelling.- to Active Braking Control Systems.- Control-oriented Models of Braking Dynamics.- Braking Control Systems Design: Basic Solutions.- Braking Control Systems Design: Actuators with Continuous Dynamics.- Braking Control Systems Design: Actuators with Discrete Dynamics.- Longitudinal Wheel Slip Estimation.- Braking Control Systems Design: Advanced Solutions.- Mixed Slip and Deceleration Control.- Nonlinear Wheel Slip Control Design.- Identification of Tyreroad Friction Conditions.