ABS (Antilock braking system) 🔥

We all like to ride cars or bikes at very high speeds, especially boys and most of the time boys do this in the presence of girls to show off, but because of these activities, many accidents happen and these accidents led to death also. 

The very common reason for happening accidents is because of skidding on the road when the wheels get locked during panic braking in emergency situations. 

So, for providing safety to people technological upgradation in the automobile is done and the new technology introduced called ABS(Antilock braking system) as a safety feature for both cars as well as bikes.

First of all, we need to know what actually the ABS is.

What is ABS(Antilock braking system)?

An Antilock Braking System (ABS) is an 
safety feature designed to prevent a vehicle’s 
wheels from locking up after an instance of emergency (panic) braking, thereby reducing the risk of skidding and allowing the driver to retain steering control. On wet or slippery roads, ABS can also reduce the distance required to come to a stop. 

When the driver applies the brakes in a vehicle without ABS, the wheels stop altogether.
And then the wheels lock up, the driver of the vehicle no longer has any control over steering and the vehicle may get skid. 

ABS functions effectively “by pumping the 
brake” applying and releasing the brakes rapidly. Previously the drivers so this manually on their own when they sensed their vehicle’s wheels locking up. 
However, ABS can pump the brakes much more effectively.

In the above animation, you can see the difference between ABS vehicles and non-ABS vehicles.

Now as we knew about ABS so without wasting time we move to know it works.

Working of ABS(Antilock Braking System).

The Antilock braking  systems are comprised of three major components:

•  Wheel Speed Sensors:- Sensors that monitor the speed of wheel rotation.

•  Hydraulic Units:- The mechanical devices that actually release the brakes, as needed)

• Electronic Control Unit:- The electronic controller that takes information from the wheel speed sensors and gives commands to the hydraulic units.

Let's understand ABS with the example.

for example:- If the front left wheel is experiencing a sudden deceleration, it will instruct the hydraulic unit associated with the 
front left wheel to reduce pressure on the brake. The hydraulic unit will continue to reduce the braking pressure until the computer senses that the problem wheel’s rate of rotation is normal. Once the wheel has begun rotating normally, the brakes are once again applied, and once again released if the wheel shows a risk of locking up. The process of releasing and applying the brake can happen several times in a second.

That's all about ABS (Antilock Braking System).

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