US 11,958,479 B2 · Method, computer program product, central control unit and control system for controlling at least partly automated vehicles in a roadway danger zone, in particular intersections of roadways in road traffic

Abstract

In order to control at least partially automated vehicles in a road danger zone, in particular road junctions in road traffic, in such a way that the vehicles can pass through the road danger zone in flowing traffic without stop/start interruptions, such as those caused e.g. by signalling equipment, traffic lights, the following proposes the following steps: a) each vehicle of the vehicles, on approaching the road danger zone, surrender the power to control the dynamic driving tasks of the vehicle in order to pass through said zone, b) when the vehicles have surrendered vehicle control power, a central control entity generates a digital road danger zone twin, and, as a result of the vehicles having surrendered vehicle control power, vehicle movements of the vehicle are automatically and dynamically controlled in a vehicle-coordinated and collision-free manner in order to pass through the road danger zone.

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Dependent claims

A method for controlling at least partly automated vehicles in a roadway danger zone, the method comprising:

a) each vehicle of the vehicles, upon approaching the roadway danger zone, surrenders a vehicle control power for vehicle control of dynamic driving tasks in order to pass through the roadway danger zone;
and
b) once the vehicles have surrendered the vehicle control powers, a central control entity generates a digital roadway danger zone twin, by means of which, owing to the vehicle control powers having been surrendered, vehicle movements of a vehicle for passing through the roadway danger zone are controlled automatically, dynamically, in a vehicle-coordinated manner and in a vehicle-collision-free manner.

A computer program product, comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having computer readable program code stored therein, said program code executable by a processor of a computer system to implement a method for controlling at least partly automated vehicles in a roadway danger zone, in particular intersections of roadways in road traffic, comprising a nonvolatile, readable memory, in which processor-readable control program instructions of a program module that carries out the vehicle control are stored, and a processor, which is connected to the memory and which executes the control program instructions of the program module for vehicle control, wherein the processor:

a) obtains first control data, with which each vehicle of the vehicles, upon approaching the roadway danger zone, surrenders a vehicle control power for vehicle control of dynamic driving tasks in order to pass through said zone,
b) having obtained the first control data, and once the vehicles have surrendered the vehicle control powers, generates a digital roadway danger zone twin, by means of which, owing to the vehicle control powers having been surrendered and by means of second control data, vehicle movements of the vehicle for passing through the roadway danger zone are controllable automatically, dynamically, in a vehicle-coordinated manner and in a vehicle-collision-free manner.

A central control unit for controlling at least partly automated vehicles in a roadway danger zone, in particular intersections of roadways in road traffic, wherein:

a control device comprising a computer program product having a nonvolatile, readable memory, in which processor-readable control program instructions of a program module that carries out the vehicle control are stored, and a processor, which is connected to the memory and which executes the control program instructions of the program module for vehicle control, and a control interface, and
at least one communication device, which in terms of communication technology is connected to the control device and to the computer program product therein via the control interface or is assigned to the control device and the computer program product therein, wherein the control device and the communication device interact and are embodied with regard to the vehicle control in such a way that
a) the communication device receives from each vehicle of the vehicles, when said vehicle is approaching the roadway danger zone in order to pass through the latter, first control data for the purpose of surrender of a vehicle control power for the vehicle control of dynamic driving tasks and forwards said data to the control device,
b) the control device, having received the first control data and the vehicle control powers surrendered by the vehicles as a result, generates a digital roadway danger zone twin, by means of which, owing to the vehicle control powers having been surrendered, the control device, by means of second control data, via the communication device, controls vehicle movements of the vehicle for passing through the roadway danger zone automatically, dynamically, in a vehicle-coordinating manner and in a vehicle-collision-free manner.

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Method, computer program product, central control unit and control system for controlling at least partly automated vehicles in a roadway danger zone, in particular intersections of roadways in road traffic

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Method, computer program product, central control unit and control system for controlling at least partly automated vehicles in a roadway danger zone, in particular intersections of roadways in road traffic

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