Method for electrically controlling a parking brake with estimation of cooling

Abstract

A method for electrically controlling a parking brake for a motor vehicle, the brake including at least one friction element connected to an electromechanical actuator capable of moving the friction element towards a braking member. The method includes defining a clamping force for immobilising the vehicle, estimating a temperature variation of the braking member from a convective heat transfer model, ignoring conductive and radiative heat transfer phenomena, defining, from the estimation of the temperature variation, a correction of a clamping to be performed in order to preserve the defined clamping force, and applying the clamping force with correction of the clamping via the actuator.

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