Patent ID: 8010273

Claim:
A method of controlling braking in a motor vehicle provided with an assisted braking system, the method comprising: providing a hydraulic master cylinder associated with a vacuum brake booster and with at least one hydraulic circuit, configured to operate, separately or simultaneously, one or more wheel brakes each equipping a wheel of the vehicle; executing an emergency braking operation following detection of occurrence of operational braking characteristics corresponding to pressure in the master cylinder satisfying a first predetermined threshold and a rate of variation of the pressure in the master cylinder over time satisfying a second predetermined threshold, the emergency braking operation being carried out with assistance of a hydraulic block controlled by an electronic control unit, the hydraulic block including a pressurizing unit to supply high-pressure hydraulic fluid to the one or more wheel brakes; detecting via the electronic control unit one or more temporally close repetitions of the executing of the emergency braking operation; and adapting conditions for repeatedly executing the emergency braking operation upon detecting the one or more temporally close repetitions, the adapting being performed by the electronic control unit and including adapting the first predetermined threshold and the second predetermined threshold.