Anti-lock brake systems (ABS) are now widely used on motor vehicles. To reduce product cost andto use currently available technologies, standard ABS uses only wheel speed sensors to detect wheel angularvelocities, which is not enough to directly obtain wheel slip ratios needed by the control unit, but can be usedto calculate reference slip ratios with measured wheel angular velocities and the estimated vehicle speed.Therefore, the road friction coefficient, which determines the vehicle deceleration during severe braking, is animportant parameter in estimating vehicle speed. This paper analyzes wheel acceleration responses insimulations of severe braking on different road surfaces and selects a pair of specific points to identify thewheel acceleration curve for each operating condition, such as road surface, pedal-braking torque and wheelvertical load. It was found that the curve using the selected points for each road surface clearly differs fromthat of the other road surfaces. Therefore, different road surfaces can be distinguished with these selectedpoints which represent their corresponding road surfaces. The analysis assumes that only wheel speed sensorsare available as hardware and that the road cohesion condition can be determined in the initial part of thesevere braking process.``
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