Reservation of endurance braking energy buffer
AssigneeVolvo Truck Corporation
InventorsVirginie HARTH, Tobias Andersson
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Abstract
A computer system determines, by taking into account topography information of a stretch of road to be travelled by a vehicle, to which extent service braking can be applied before the service brake of the vehicle is expected to overheat upon travelling the stretch of road, and reserves an amount of energy to be stored in an energy storage system of the vehicle for allowing endurance braking of the vehicle to avoid causing overheating of the service brake. The amount of energy reserved is adapted to the extent to which the service braking is determined to be applied upon the vehicle traveling the stretch of road.
Claims20
A computer system comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- determine, by taking into account topography information of a stretch of road to be travelled by a vehicle, to which extent service braking can be applied before the service brake of the vehicle is expected to overheat upon travelling said stretch of road;
- and to
- reserve an amount of energy to be stored in an energy storage system, ESS, of the vehicle for allowing endurance braking of the vehicle to avoid causing overheating of the service brake, wherein th amount of energy being reserved is adapted to the extent to which the service braking is determined to be applied upon the vehicle traveling said stretch of road.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- determining, by taking into account topography information of a stretch of road to be travelled by a vehicle, to which extent service braking can be applied before the service brake of the vehicle is expected to overheat upon travelling said stretch of road;
- and
- reserving an amount of energy to be stored in an energy storage system, ESS, of the vehicle for allowing endurance braking of the vehicle to avoid causing overheating of the service brake, wherein the amount of energy being reserved is adapted to the extent to which the service braking is determined to be applied upon the vehicle traveling said stretch of road.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.