A Novel Initiative Braking System with Nondegraded Fallback Level for ADAS and Autonomous Driving

A novel compact initiative braking system orienting intelligent vehicles and autonomous driving is revealed. The delicate arrangement of on-off switch valves guarantees precise hydraulic pressure modulation. Integrated stroke simulator provides a well-tuned pedal force feedback. The fallback level is intensively designed to be nondegraded. A hierarchical control frame with the underlying hydraulic controller is designed to govern operation procedures. The underlying hydraulic controller is set up based on adaptive gain scheduling proportion differentiation controller and logic threshold control. Hardware-in-loop tests are carried out in full perspectives. The test result of slope-sine combination tracking shows that, compared with the conventional proportion integration differentiation controller, the designed underlying controller achieves higher pressure modulation accuracy with no chattering effect. Controller robustness to accumulator pressure fluctuation is proven by the dual-cylinder tracking test. A batch of step-response tests under different accumulator pressures shows a rapid pressure building capability in emergency situations under all pressure range. The fail-safe test result indicates that the conventional hydraulic brake can be restored in 1.5 s with the operation of the driver, which significantly increases the margin of brake safety for highly autonomous vehicles. The regenerative braking test result suggests the immense potential of the developed system in an application to electrified vehicles.