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Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy ›› 2023, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (3): 299-309.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2023.03.005

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Identification of braking condition for heavy truck on long downhill

SHI Peilong1(), GAO Yipeng2, ZHANG Zihao1, ZHAO Xuan1, YU Qiang1   

  1. 1. School of Automobile, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
    2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
  • Received:2022-09-27 Revised:2023-04-24 Online:2023-06-30 Published:2023-06-30

Abstract:

The traditional continuous braking system excessively relies on the subjective judgment of the driver to open and close, which is prone to the problem of thermal decline of the whole vehicle’s braking performance caused by improper operation. Therefore, this paper proposed a method to construct and identify the braking condition of heavy truck on long downhill, which provided a basis for the continuous braking system to intervene or withdraw from active control. Based on the long downhill test data of heavy trucks, including brake pedal action, vehicle speed and GPS data, the long downhill braking conditions was constructed using short stroke division, K-clustering, coding techniques and the Markov-Monte Carlo method, where the total time was 1 194 s and the total distance was 21.18 km. Based on the principle of rolling time window, the Back Propagation(BP) neural network working condition identification model was established, and offline training and identification verification was carried out. The results show that the recognition accuracy of general braking and forced braking working conditions is 89.30%, proving that the proposed method can effectively identify the braking status of heavy trucks on long downhill.

Key words: automotive engineering, heavy truck, braking condition, Markov-Monte Carlo method, condition identification, rolling time window

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