Abstract: A method for controlling a compressed air brake system of a vehicle includes outputting an analog driver brake pressure via a brake pressure control line during driver braking by operating a brake pedal, a switching device set in a driver braking position to a brake circuit with at least one ABS stop valve device, a brake line, and a wheel brake. The method additionally includes, in the presence of both driver braking and the external brake demand signal, measuring the driver brake pressure and determining a driver brake pressure value. Furthermore, the method includes forming a combined brake pressure value by adding or superimposing the driver brake pressure value and an external brake pressure value contained in the external brake demand signal, and switching the switching device into the functional position and controlling the combined brake pressure value from the system pressure by actuating the ABS stop valve device.

Abstract: Automatically regulating vehicle longitudinal dynamics in accordance with a preceding vehicle includes determining a first state variable dependent on vehicle acceleration, a second state variable dependent on engine drive torque, a third state variable dependent on the operating state of at least one permanent brake, and information about the preceding vehicle, and adjusting at least one regulating parameter of a regulation function and regulating the longitudinal dynamics depending on the at least one regulating parameter.

Abstract: Automatically controlling the longitudinal dynamics of a vehicle includes ascertaining a state variable dependent on the state of at least one wheel brake, detecting overshoots and/or undershoots of a limiting value of the state variable, ascertaining information about a vehicle traveling ahead, setting at least one control of a feedback control system and controlling the longitudinal dynamics of the vehicle as a function of the at least one control parameter. A sensing device used to ascertain the state of the at least one wheel brake an the using device is used to ascertain information about the vehicle traveling ahead, and an evaluating, setting and controlling unit is used to evaluate the state of the at least one wheel brake and the information about the vehicle traveling ahead for setting the at least one control parameter and for controlling the longitudinal dynamics of the vehicle as a function thereof.