top of page

TU Darmstadt

TU Darmstadt

Germany

Non-Member

SEND EMAIL
CALL

The Technical University of Darmstadt is a synonym for excellent, relevant science. Global transformations – from the energy transition via Industry 4.0 to artificial intelligence – are posing enormous challenges. We are playing a crucial role in helping to shape these far-reaching processes of change with outstanding insights and forward-looking study opportunities.


Since we were founded in 1877, we have been one of Germany’s most international universities; as a European technical university, we are committed to European values and European integration. Our home is the metropolitan region Frankfurt-Rhine-Main. With our partners in the Alliance of Rhine-Main Universities, we continue the development of this globally attractive science location.


Our cutting-edge research is pooled in three fields: Energy and Environment, Information and Intelligence, Matter and Materials. Large-scale, problem-based interdisciplinarity involving the engineering sciences, natural sciences, humanities and social sciences is the hallmark of our research and study. We foster intensive, productive interaction with society, business and politics. Such collaborative polyphony generates effective, long-term progress towards sustainable development worldwide.

SEE MORE

Representative

SEE MORE

Stay up to date with FISITA Spotlight

More Blogs Item Title

Excerpt from the blog goes here - this will give the reader a brief snapshot of what the post is about...

16 July 2021

READ NOW

See FISITA Library items from TU Darmstadt

EB2021-IBC-006

Paper + Video + Slides

Detail

Mr. Lennart Guckes, TU Darmstadt Institute of Automotive Engineering (FZD), GERMANY

Prof. Dr. Hermann Winner, TU Darmstadt Institute of Automotive Engineering (FZD), GERMANY

Dr.-Ing. Jens Hoffmann, Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, GERMANY

Mr. Sébastien Pla, Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, GERMANY


During the development toward autonomous and electrified vehicles with low emissions, many visions for future mobility concepts arise, one of them being autonomous shuttles for urban areas. Most publications concerning these concepts focus on control and software while in this paper the change of requirements for wheel brakes is examined.

The performance of wheel brakes for todays passenger cars is currently tested under different worst-case assumptions regarding area of operation and highest possible load resulting from human operation. Considering the capabilities of autonomous shuttles like autonomous driving and the availability of regenerative braking, these assumptions need to be reevaluated. This also includes comfort and lifetime requirements regarding wheel brakes for these concepts and takes in perspective that for an autonomous shuttle a certain area of operation is defined in their operational design domain (ODD) as well as a lower maximum velocity.


To do so, different autonomous shuttle concepts are aggregated as well as their respective hardware and tech specs. To gather system requirements for the braking system of an autonomous shuttle a stakeholder analysis is performed, highlighting the underlying business model, driving tasks and passenger types as well as their needs and wishes. The shift in requirements is derived in comparison to conventional wheel brakes for cars. Usual performance tests for conventional wheel brakes for passenger cars are semantically analyzed to discuss their relevance and transferred into new performance tests for the given vehicle class.


Three test scenarios are created, the first one being the “Emergency Braking Test”, which consists of two consecutive emergency brakings. Secondly a “Standard Operation Test” which consists of ten consecutive, comfortable accelerations and decelerations for passenger pickup and transport. Lastly, a “Hill Descent Test” on a long descent in the area of operation of the shuttle, like in the demanding urban topology of San Francisco. Based on the scenarios different availability levels of regenerative braking power are considered.


Based on the developed test cycles a comparison is drawn for power and energy dissipation demand and the corresponding torques needed for an example vehicle under various levels of available regenerative braking power. While power and energy dissipation have decreased heavily, the torque demand is still as high as needed for a conventional vehicle.


The changed requirements open up new possibilities for suitable braking concepts for autonomous shuttles. This may also reduce brake emissions depending on the chosen concepts.

EuroBrake 2021

BCN

WATCH VIDEO
DOWNLOAD PDF
DOWNLOAD SLIDES

Downloads

Requirements and Test Cycles for Brake Systems of Autonomous Vehicle Concepts on the Example of an Autonomous Shuttle, EB2021-IBC-006, EuroBrake 2021

EB2014-BV-010

Paper

Maximilia Könning, Dr. Ronaldo Nunes, Sebastian Fischer, Prof. Dr. Hermann Winner,
- Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz Cars, TU Darmstadt, FZD

Detail

During the development phase of a brake system, engineers use more and more simulation tools to help them achieve optimal designs for their products. For the analysis of deformations or high frequency vibrations (squeal) there are different methods one can use in this phase. For vibration problems with lower frequency, hot judder for instance, there are fewer options for an engineer. Most of them are only taking into account the axle/steering components or the brake disc as an isolated component. Based on this discussion, the main focus of this work is to take a look into the brake system as a whole and analyse the influence thereof on hot judder and hot spots. In order to analyse the whole brake system, a model is built to include relevant behaviour of the braking system under previously specified braking conditions. Results from the dynamometer of the TU Darmstadt are used to evaluate the simulation and to identify the relevant braking conditions for hot judder. This leads to the possibility to compare influence of parameters on the most interesting measuring variables. For Hot Judder these variables are temperatures, disk thickness variation (DTV), brake torque variation (BTV) and surface run out (SRO).

EuroBrake 2014

BV

WATCH VIDEO
DOWNLOAD PDF
DOWNLOAD SLIDES

Downloads

Simulation Of A Brake System With Respect To Dynamic And Thermal Conditions 
During Hot Judder, EB2014-BV-010, EuroBrake 2014
LOAD MORE

Error message goes here.

SEARCH
bottom of page