Abstract: A method for operating a brake booster of a vehicle includes: establishing an actual displacement speed signal of an input rod, to which a driver brake force is at least partially transmitted; filtering high-frequency and/or low-frequency signal components out of the established actual displacement speed signal; establishing a setpoint displacement speed signal of at least one booster piston, which is displaceable with the aid of the brake booster, at least in consideration of a predefined characteristic curve and the filtered actual displacement speed signal; and establishing an activation signal of the brake booster at least in consideration of the established setpoint displacement speed signal and outputting the activation signal to the brake booster to displace at least the booster piston at an execution speed corresponding to the activation signal.

Abstract: A power-assisted braking system for a vehicle is described, including: a brake master cylinder having a chamber which is hydraulically connected to a wheel brake cylinder for braking a wheel of the vehicle; a hydraulic actuator which activates a piston of the brake master cylinder in order to pressurize the hydraulic fluid in the chamber; a low-pressure accumulator which stores the hydraulic fluid under pressure, and the actuator for activating the piston of the brake master cylinder; a pump which supplies the hydraulic fluid from the tank to the low-pressure accumulator; and a drive device which drives the pump. A method for controlling a power-assisted braking system is also described.

Abstract: A method for controlling a brake booster in a hydraulic brake system, in which the smallest partial pressure target value of at least three partial pressure target values is ascertained, and is then defined as the target pressure value and is then set using a brake booster.

Abstract: An electromechanical brake booster is provided for a braking system of a vehicle, having a valve body and an input rod, the valve body, to which at a displacement motion in a brake application direction has been imparted, being displaceable up to a differential travel equal to a limit differential travel with reference to the input rod, and then a co-displacement motion in the brake application direction being impartable to the input rod if the co-displacement motion is acted against at most by a retention force below a predefined threshold value, and at least one buffer element being disposed on the input rod and/or on the valve body in such a way that if a retention force above the predefined threshold value acts against the co-displacement motion, the differential travel is increasable above the limit differential travel by way of a deformation of the at least one buffer element.

Abstract: A method for determining the probability a handling truck tipping over includes determining a respective normal force acting in the z direction for at least two of at least three wheels of the handling truck. At least two normal forces are compared and the probability of the tipping of the handling truck is determined on the basis of the comparison.

Abstract: A control device for a controllable brake booster of a braking system is configured to: establish a setpoint variable regarding a setpoint operation to be carried out with the aid of the controllable brake booster, under consideration of a provided specified variable regarding a setpoint pressure to be set in a partial volume of the braking system; establish a setpoint difference of the setpoint variable, under consideration of the specified variable and an actual variable regarding an actual pressure present in a subarea of the braking system, to establish a corrected setpoint variable taking the established setpoint difference into consideration; and output a control signal which corresponds to the established corrected setpoint variable to the controllable brake booster and/or to the power supply component of the controllable brake booster.

Abstract: In a method and a device for the control of a vehicle brake system, the setpoint values for each wheel are corrected based on the difference between brake pressures in at least one wheel brake of two different brake circuits.

Abstract: A braking system includes a brake pressure provision device for providing brake pressure using a brake medium; a brake pressure compensation device; a wheel brake circuit including a wheel brake cylinder for braking a wheel, the wheel brake circuit being connected via a first actuator to the brake pressure provision device and via a second actuator to the brake pressure compensation device; and a control unit for controlling the actuators and the brake compensation device in such a way that the volume of the brake medium is adapted to a desirable brake pressure in the wheel brake circuit as a function of a predefined parameter, the brake pressure in the wheel brake circuit being reduced with the aid of the brake pressure compensation device and by opening the second actuator and closing the first actuator.

Abstract: A power-assisted braking system for a vehicle is described, including: a brake master cylinder having a chamber which is hydraulically connected to a wheel brake cylinder for braking a wheel of the vehicle; a hydraulic actuator which activates a piston of the brake master cylinder in order to pressurize the hydraulic fluid in the chamber; a low-pressure accumulator which stores the hydraulic fluid under pressure, and the actuator for activating the piston of the brake master cylinder; a pump which supplies the hydraulic fluid from the tank to the low-pressure accumulator; and a drive device which drives the pump. A method for controlling a power-assisted braking system is also described.

Abstract: A method for determining the probability a handling truck tipping over includes determining a respective normal force acting in the z direction for at least two of at least three wheels of the handling truck. At least two normal forces are compared and the probability of the tipping of the handling truck is determined on the basis of the comparison.

Abstract: In a method for reducing the rollover risk in vehicles, at least one state variable which characterizes the transverse dynamics of the vehicle is ascertained and is used as the basis for an intervention into the steering system and the braking system which stabilizes the vehicle. A multivariable control is carried out in which two control loops are superimposed, the first control loop being based on control of the yaw rate and the second control loop being based on control of the transverse acceleration. The steering system as well as the braking system may be adjusted via the first and second control loops.

Abstract: In a method for reducing the rollover risk in vehicles, at least one state variable which characterizes the transverse dynamics of the vehicle is ascertained and is used as the basis for an intervention into the steering system and the braking system which stabilizes the vehicle. A multivariable control is carried out in which two control loops are superimposed, the first control loop being based on control of the yaw rate and the second control loop being based on control of the transverse acceleration. The steering system as well as the braking system may be adjusted via the first and second control loops.

Abstract: Described is a device for stabilizing a vehicle in critical driving situations, including a vehicle dynamics control system having a control unit, including a vehicle dynamics control algorithm, and at least one actuator and an additional vehicle stability system having an associated actuator. Vehicle dynamics control may be executed in a particularly simple and trouble-free manner when the vehicle dynamics control algorithm is retrofitted with a distribution function which derives an actuating request for an actuator of the vehicle dynamics control system as well as an actuating request for at least one actuator of the vehicle stability system from a controller output variable.

Abstract: A system for monitoring the handling of a vehicle has a plurality of individual systems for influencing the handling of the vehicle, a management device being provided for managing the influence on the handling by the individual systems. A method for monitoring a handling of a vehicle is also described.

Abstract: A device is described for stabilizing a vehicle in critical driving situations, including a vehicle dynamics control system having a control unit, in which a vehicle dynamics controller is stored, at least one final control element, and a sensor system for measuring different driving condition variables, and including a rear-wheel steering system having a control unit and a final control element. The electronic stability program may be integrated into a control unit if the electronic stability program algorithm includes a distributor unit which, from a regulator output variable, generates both a setpoint requirement for the final control element of the vehicle dynamics control system and also a setpoint requirement for the final control element of the rear-wheel steering system.

Abstract: A method and a device for influencing the handling characteristics of a vehicle, by increasing the vehicle stability and hence increasing the driving comfort for the driver of the vehicle. This is done by activating at least two systems in the vehicle, which improve the handling characteristics and thus the vehicle stability. The activation of a system occurs in a specified sequence as a function of the activation and/or of the effect of the preceding systems on the handling characteristics achieved by the activation. The sequence provided for this purpose is the initial activation of a chassis system, followed by a steering system and finally by a brake system.

Abstract: Described is a device for stabilizing a vehicle in critical driving situations, including a vehicle dynamics control system having a control unit, including a vehicle dynamics control algorithm, and at least one actuator and an additional vehicle stability system having an associated actuator. Vehicle dynamics control may be executed in a particularly simple and trouble-free manner when the vehicle dynamics control algorithm is retrofitted with a distribution function which derives an actuating request for an actuator of the vehicle dynamics control system as well as an actuating request for at least one actuator of the vehicle stability system from a controller output variable.

Abstract: Device and method for controlling at least one operating-dynamics variable of a vehicle in closed loop. The device includes a braking system which contains a reservoir for accommodating a braking medium, and at least one brake circuit. The brake circuit includes first valve arrangements on the output side and a second valve arrangement on the incoming side. Wheel brake cylinders allocated to the brake circuit are connected to the first valve arrangements. The reservoir is connected to the second valve arrangement. The device includes a system with which the wheel brake cylinder exhibiting the greatest brake pressure is ascertained for the at least one brake circuit. If a driver-independent brake actuation exists, then the brake pressure of the wheel brake cylinder exhibiting the greatest brake pressure is adjusted by appropriate driving of the second valve arrangement.

Abstract: A brake system for a vehicle, as well as a method for operating the brake system for a vehicle, a braking pressure that is dependent upon a correction factor being adjusted by the brake system, the correction factor being produced by a characteristic curve which is between the correction factor and the transversal acceleration of the vehicle and which has a range including an ascent that is dependent upon the transversal acceleration of the vehicle.

Abstract: A system for monitoring the handling of a vehicle has a plurality of individual systems (12, 14, 16) for influencing the handling of the vehicle, a management device (10) being provided for managing the influence on the handling by the individual systems (12, 14, 16). A method for monitoring a handling of a vehicle is also described.