Design, Implementation and Assessment of a New Automatic Hydraulic Braking System

Abstract

In this research, a new automatic braking system was designed and tested to prevent collisions between a driver’s vehicle andobstacles (vehicles, pedestrians). The primary objective of this work is to develop a safety car braking system using ultrasonicsensor and to design a vehicle with that can manage less human attention to the driving. An appropriate mechanism was used tooperate and control the brake system automatically and it different from the previous systems which operate brake pedalaccording to signals incoming. A suitable electric pump is used to provide fluid flow and pressure value and two solenoid valvesare used to control the direction of brake fluid in the hydraulic brake system.The proposed system operated using three parts; sensing part, the second part depends on using a control unit and another partdepends on a suitable actuator. It can detect the distance between obstacles and the driver’s vehicle by the ultrasonic sensor andusing a hydraulic pump and solenoids valves to operate the brake system if the driver does not push the brake pedal in the righttime to stop the vehicle, this system can automatically stop the vehicle without driver input. The performance of the system wasexcellent and the errors between measured braking time and theoretical braking time were between one and two percent.