<div>Throughout the automobile industry, the electronic brake boost technologies have
been widely applied to support the expansion of the using range of the driver
assist technologies. The electronic brake booster (EBB) supports to precisely
operate the brakes as necessary via building up the brake pressure faster than
the vacuum brake booster. Therefore, in this article a novel control strategy
for the EBB based on fuzzy logic control (FLC) is developed and studied. The
configuration of the EBB is established and the system model including the
permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), a two-stage reduction transmission
(gears and a ball screw), a servo body, reaction disk, and the hydraulic load
are modeled by MATLAB/Simulink. The load-dependent friction has been compensated
by using Karnopp friction model. Due to the strong nonlinearity on the EBB
components and the load-dependent friction, FLC has been used for the control
algorithm. The control concept focused on transforming the pressure control to
position tracking control of the EBB, which enabled overcoming the nonlinearity
in the hydraulic system and achieve the control process with the required
precision and dynamics. The improvement on the vehicle braking performance was
examined and demonstrated theoretically by comparing the EBB and the vacuum
brake booster. The EBB model and its control strategy are integrated to a
well-used verified seven degrees of freedom longitudinal–vertical vehicle model.
The results showed that the position tracking control of the EBB perform well.
The braking performance of the vehicle with EBB is better than the vacuum brake
booster in terms of response time and stopping distance and time. Furthermore,
the EBB has improved stability in its booster characteristics while maintaining
consistency with vacuum brake booster.</div>