The invention relates to a method (700) for detecting fluid leakages of a
vehicle braking system (100; 200; 300; 400). The
braking system includes: - at least one hydraulic or electro-hydraulic
actuator (1) of a
disc brake (2), at least one electronic
processing unit (10, 10', 20, 20' ) connected to the at least one hydraulic or electro-hydraulic
actuator for receiving data, representative of a
hydraulic pressure measurement (P) of the
actuator and a
stroke measurement (x) of an actuator
piston, associated with one or more braking events during a braking detection time interval. The method includes the following steps: - enabling (701), by at least one electronic
processing unit, a
fluid leakage monitoring block (3) following the detection of at least one braking event in the braking detection time interval; the
fluid leakage monitoring block includes a supervisory block (31), an average stiffness monitoring block (32) of the
braking system and a monitoring block of a working area (33) of the
braking system; - receiving (702), by the
fluid leakage monitoring block, at least a first
hydraulic pressure measurement of the actuator (Ps) and at least a first measurement of the
stroke (xs) of the actuator
piston relating to one of these one or more braking events and a required pressure value (Pv) from the at least one electronic
processing unit; - enabling (703), by the supervisory block, the average stiffness monitoring and working area monitoring blocks when the required pressure value is greater than or equal to a first predetermined enabling pressure value (Pl); - validating (704), by the supervisory block, this braking event of the one or more braking events if the required pressure value is greater than a second predetermined enabling pressure value (P2) during at least one predetermined enabling time interval (T2); - identifying (705), by the average stiffness monitoring block, a linear function (f (x) ) suitable for defining a relationship between the at least one first
hydraulic pressure measurement of the actuator as a function of the at least one first measurement of the
stroke of the actuator
piston; an angular coefficient of the identified linear function (f (x) ) represents the average stiffness of the braking
system; - generating (706), by the average stiffness monitoring block, a first parameter (STIFFNESS) based on a comparison between the angular coefficient of tthhee identified linear function with a predetermined threshold stiffness value (Kth); - generating ( 707 ), by the working area monitoring block, a second parameter (AREA_FLAG) representative of actuator pressure and actuator piston stroke values not allowed when the at least a first hydraulic
pressure measurement of the actuator is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold pressure value ( Pth) and the at least a first piston stroke measurement is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold position value (xth); - processing ( 708 ), by a counter block ( 34 ) of the leakage monitoring block, the first and second parameters to generate a numerical counter value ( Ilk) suitable to be compared with a numerical threshold value (Nth) to generate information (LI ) representative of a presence or absence of fluid leakage from the
vehicle braking system.