This time, Brembo brought the innovative SENSIFY intelligent braking system. It should be emphasized that this system does not specifically refer to a brake disc or brake pad, but contains the current Brembo product portfolio such as calipers, brake discs and friction materials, and is equipped with digital technology and artificial intelligence to build a flexible platform, using software, predictive algorithms and data management systems, to achieve an ecosystem general term for the digitalization of braking systems. According to official sources, the system will be available in early 2024.
So what are the revolutionary advantages of this system? Take a look at the short summary below.
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Flexible vehicle configuration options
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A variety of applicable scenarios
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Effectively improve security performance
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It can be customized according to the preferences of manufacturers or customers
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Effectively control costs
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Meet sustainability needs
The name SENSIFY actually highly summarizes the essence of the entire intelligent braking system, namely SENSE (sense) and SIPPPLIFY (simplified).
Let's start with streamlining. Before that, let's review how conventional braking systems work. When the driver depresses the brake pedal, the brake master pump applies pressure to the brake oil in the brake duct, pushing the piston in the brake caliper, squeezing the brake pads, and causing friction between the brake pads and the brake discs to exert a braking effect.
SensIFY's system eliminates a large number of brake oil circuits, and the rear axle is completely transmitted by electrical signals, and the brake control of the rear wheels is realized by mechatronic calipers. As can be seen from the above structural diagram, the medium of brake oil is no longer used to transmit brake signals between the brake pedal and the brake caliper.
Brembo has a hydraulic device behind the brake pedals to simulate an excellent braking foot feel.
In order to ensure the best safety of the entire system, the SENSIFY system still retains the traditional hydraulic braking system on the front axle as a "double backup", but the system is not involved in braking until the electronic control system is completely failed.
It is also because the hardware of the braking system is digitized, the SENSIFY system can effectively reduce the braking locking time compared with the traditional hydraulic braking system, and can be combined with sensor data to accurately control the braking force of each wheel according to the actual situation, thereby improving the safety performance and braking stability of the vehicle.
In addition, the high plasticity of the SENSIFY system is also reflected in the use end, the response of the brake pedal can be adjusted according to different driving styles, so as to meet the needs of different drivers for the brake pedal foot feeling, or according to the needs of different car manufacturers, configure the brake foot feeling that the car manufacturer wants to present.
Thanks to the cancellation of a large number of hydraulic systems, the SENSIFY system can effectively save the cost of oil pipelines, brake oil, etc., which is conducive to the control of car manufacturers' car costs, and for users, it also reduces the cost of using brake oil and the maintenance cost of brake systems.
In the face of sustainability issues, brembo SENSIFY applies ENERGYS energy-saving springs to the caliper hardware, which allows the brake pads to be better positioned after braking, thereby reducing the lag torque, reducing energy waste and increasing the mileage.
Having said all this from a theoretical point of view, what kind of sense is this system? To give us a more intuitive feel, Brembo took us to a circuit in Nanjing and let us experience a prototype car equipped with the SENSIFY system.
The experience mainly revolves around curve EBD, curve ABS, high adhesion ground ABS, low adhesion ground ABS performance.
The site also prepared a vehicle without the SENSIFY system for us to experience the same project, which allows us to more intuitively discover the difference in experience brought by the system.
In the high-speed corner EBD and ABS experience, the braking performance of the prototype car equipped with the SENSIFY system in the corner is very linear, the traces of system intervention are not obvious, and there is no abrupt dynamic performance of the vehicle due to the intervention of the stabilization system. It is worth praising that the prototype car equipped with the SENSIFY system can slow down steadily along the steering wheel pointing in a bend, whether it is lightly braking to make EBD work or stepping on the ABS in the corner, just like an invisible hand holding the body steadily, and the body posture or driving trajectory becomes unnatural because of the intervention of the electronic system.
In the two sessions of experiencing ABS performance on the ground with different adhesion, the prototype car equipped with the SENSIFY system performed very steadily, and the entire braking process can feel that the body posture is very stable, and there is no left-right traverse situation. At the same time, because the brake pedal and the brake caliper have been decoupled, the brake pedal will not have the phenomenon of "bouncing feet" like the traditional hydraulic brake system when ABS intervenes.
summary
Through this experience, you can feel the Brembo SENSIFY system in the field of braking system innovation, new things not only at the hardware level, but also in the logic of the entire system, sensify system seems to be like a universal key, unlock no matter how the future new car changes, through the SENSIFY system can find an excellent solution.