In recent years the number of electronic systems dramatically increased in vehicles.
In the field of autonomous braking the Electronic Stability Control (ESC) is one of
the most important braking functions. Two of the biggest challenges of the development
of ESC are the validity of the inputs and logic of the intervention. In this paper
the initial results of a new phase plane-based approach are introduced. This approach
can be the base of a wide spectrum of vehicle dynamic application but from ESC point
of view it can be used for detecting critical driving maneuvers and for monitoring
of inertia sensors plausibility. The main advantage of the phase-based method is that
it can decrease the number of necessary vehicle dependent parameters during the detection
of critical driving situations and sensor plausibility problems. In the article simulation
results are presented to highlight the advantage of the proposed approach. The results
show that our phase plane method can be used in the development of ESC in the future.
