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Brake and ice?

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting: Bugs, Questions and Support' started by bonami2, Oct 16, 2015.

  1. bonami2

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    Uh i tried braking with the 2wd sport pickup truck with the front wheel on the ground on the test map and rear wheel on ice and even idle it would not stop the truck seem like a bug

    (2wd )
     
  2. KennyWah

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    How does one stop a car on ice?
     
  3. bonami2

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    With 2 tire on asphalt.....

    That exactly the bug..

    front wheel on ground

    REAR WHEEL ON ICE ( rwd )


    And the damn thing still wont stop at idle speed with a manual without auto clutch
     
  4. zagueiro.qa

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    Well, try to brake a car WITH ABS on ice, ABS will simply not work... I think that's what he was trying to explain
     
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  5. bonami2

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    Uh yea maybe abs was on did not think of that uh.


    I was parked rear wheel on ice and front on the ground of the test map.

    And i just put it in first gear holding the brake and it started going forward....



    Do make sense that abs go crazy and wont brake or something
     
  6. Diamondback

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    The current ABS system, while being miles ahead of the previous system, does not work perfectly yet.
    As soon as the rear axle loses all traction it gets confused and does not work reliably anymore.
    That's because we are currently using the rear axle as a "true" airspeed.
    We don't want to take the actual airspeed as measured for the ABS calculations as that would be like cheating (when did you see a car with an airspeed sensor last time? :p )

    But as always, we are constantly working on these things and at some point in the future this issue will also be solved.
    Until then, just stay away from ice :D
     
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  7. KennyWah

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    well, gee thanks a real lot for explaining that one before, you made it sound like you were trying to get the car to stop dead on ice it's self. Sometimes grammar can confuse a reader, don't have to write using SUPER CAPS and sound like I've got no sense of logic what so ever.

    But yes with the front wheels on a material that has friction of some decent level it should be able to slow down the car.
     
  8. bonami2

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    Man im french... And i have lot of experience browsing other people that speak 10 time worse than me in english and i understand them... Not my fault if im aint very clear but im not the worst.

    I put it in cap because it was not clear.


    2wd sport pickup truck with the front wheel on the ground on the test map and rear wheel on ice


    Ground and ice was what i used to explain it maybe i should have used tarmac or idk the word in english

    Sorry.

    Gonna try again without abs to see
     
  9. bonami2

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    Thank you diamondback for the explanation :)
     
  10. bonami2

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    I confirm without abs it do brake
     
  11. zagueiro.qa

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    I don't know if this would actually be possible, but actual ABS systems use sensors to check the rotation to see if the wheel is locked or not, so it pumps the brake, the wheel locks, it releases so the wheel moves again and it repeats the cycle...
     
  12. Diamondback

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    And that's exactly what we do. The issue is with finding the actual speed of the vehicle as a comparision. There are no sensors for reading a vehicle's airspeed in an everyday car, so complex calculations are usually used to guesstimate the current airspeed.
     
  13. zagueiro.qa

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    But you wouldn't need the airspeed, just the wheelspeed...
     
  14. Goosah

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    But if your wheel locks up, you no longer know the true speed of the vehicle based on wheel speed ;) In an ideal world the abs would not let the wheel lock up. But when tires can leave the ground, the transmission could downshift and add extra braking, or if wheels are on very different surfaces, the system breaks down. What is needed is a second method of error checking that looks at the rate that the wheel is slowing down to see if it is decelerating a lot faster than the car is. Also probably some more checks so that the ABS is not triggered from a stop or very low speed.

    So, we have ideas how to make it better, but, if you haven't noticed, our development tends to move from topic to topic, bringing up the quality and complexity of everything in an even fashion. As said we do intend to revisit the ABS code to make it more robust.
     
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  15. Diamondback

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    Just imagine a car with four locked up tires skidding along at 100km/h. To the wheel speed sensors it will look like the car is not moving while indeed it actually is moving.
    At this point other measurements need to be taken into account to decide whether our tires are locked up or if we are just stopped completely. In real-life acceleration sensors, feedback loops from the brake pressure system and other complex algorithms are used to estimate the true vehicle speed, but we simply did not have time and resources yet to do further research on that topic.
     
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    Its a problem I've looked into before. Was wanting to add ABS and TCS to an RC car actually. Didnt bother in the end, mostly due to lack of a few things I needed and no money to buy them with. Actual ABS, not the really crappy guesstimation used in some high end radios (that simply ramps up brake pressure over an adjustable period of time with no accounting for the vehicles actual speed). Because of the parts issue, gave up investing too much time into it, but established it is indeed a highly complex issue.

    I had a slight advantage even. The car was going to be running in a 2wd configuration. The car has no brakes on the front wheels, adding wheelspeed sensors to the front and rear would probably give a pretty reasonable approximation of whether the rear wheels have locked under braking on the basis that the fronts are still spinning.

    Oh and I was planning on using a non hobby RC motor controller to allow for independant control of both throttle, direction and brake, RC ESC's don't usually allow for that.
     
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