Vehicle and control method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsYoungIl Na, Wooyeol Jeong, Jungwan Park, Chiyoung An, Donghyuk Kim
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Abstract
A vehicle may include a vehicle detector configured to detect an obstacle and a condition of the inside and the outside of the vehicle; and a controller, when a front obstacle is detected by the vehicle detector, configured to determine a required braking distance or a time to collision (TTC) with respect to the obstacle, configured to determine whether a door side collision with the obstacle is estimated, when a collision with the obstacle is estimated according to the result of the determination, and configured to open a door in emergency or convert the door into a manual opening mode when the door side collision is estimated.
Claims19
A vehicle having a body and a door coupled to the body, the vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle detector configured to detect an obstacle and a condition of an inside and an outside of the vehicle;
- and
- a controller, when the obstacle is detected by the vehicle detector, configured to determine a required braking distance or a time to collision (TTC) with respect to the obstacle, configured to determine whether a door side collision with the obstacle is estimated, when a collision with the obstacle is estimated according to a result of the determination, and configured to open the door or convert the door into a manual opening mode when the door side collision is estimated,
- wherein the controller is configured to estimate the door side collision based on overlap information including a width direction overlap ratio between the body of the vehicle and the obstacle, and a width direction left and right free-overlap ratio between the body of the vehicle and the obstacle.
A vehicle having a body and a door coupled to the body, the vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle detector configured to detect an obstacle and a condition of an inside and an outside of the vehicle;
- and
- a controller, when the obstacle is detected by the vehicle detector, configured to determine a required braking distance or a time to collision (TTC) with respect to the obstacle, configured to determine whether a driver seat side collision with the obstacle is estimated, when a collision with the obstacle is estimated according to a result of the determination, and configured to open the door when the driver seat side collision is estimated,
- wherein the controller is configured to estimate the driver seat side collision based on overlap information including at least one of a width direction overlap ratio between the body of the vehicle and the obstacle, and a width direction left and right free-overlap ratio between the body of the vehicle and the obstacle.
A control method of a vehicle having a body and a door coupled to the body, the control method comprising:
- detecting an obstacle by a vehicle sensor;
- determining a required braking distance or a time to collision (TTC) with respect to the obstacle;
- determining whether a door side collision with the obstacle is estimated, when a collision with the obstacle is estimated according to a result of the determination;
- and
- opening the door in emergency or converting the door into a manual opening mode, when the door side collision is estimated according to a result of the determination,
- wherein the determination of whether the door side collision is estimated is performed by estimating the door side collision based on overlap information including at least one of a width direction overlap ratio between the body of the vehicle and the obstacle, and a width direction left and right free-overlap ratio between the body of the vehicle and the obstacle.
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