Method for braking a tractor-trailer
AssigneeKodiak Robotics, Inc.
InventorsCourt Scott HINRICHER, Muzaffer Arda BUYUKSAN
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Abstract
A method of braking a tractor-trailer includes sensing, autonomously, a braking event, the braking event being indicative of a requirement for braking the tractor-trailer and actuating a trailer brake valve of a trailer of the tractor-trailer to apply trailer brakes prior to actuating a tractor brake valve of a tractor of the tractor-trailer to apply tractor brakes and to apply trailer brakes. Actuating the trailer brake valve of the trailer of the tractor-trailer occurs in response to the sensing of the braking event.
Claims25
A method of braking a tractor-trailer driven autonomously, the method comprising:
- sensing, autonomously, a braking event, the braking event being indicative of a requirement for braking the tractor-trailer;
- and
- actuating a trailer brake valve of a trailer of the tractor-trailer to apply trailer brakes in response to the sensing of the braking event, wherein the trailer brakes are applied prior to actuating a tractor brake valve of a tractor of the tractor-trailer to apply tractor brakes and to apply trailer brakes.
A method of braking a tractor-trailer, the method comprising:
- determining surface conditions of a road;
- determining, based on the surface condition, a braking operation of a trailer brake valve;
- and
- actuating the braking operation of the trailer brake valve prior to actuating a tractor brake valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.