Method for operating a vehicle assistance system, device for executing the method, and vehicle
AssigneesDaimler AG, Robert Bosch GmbH
InventorsChristoph Gustav Keller, Holger Mielenz
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Abstract
A method for operating a vehicle assistance system is described. In one embodiment, when the vehicle is in the autonomous driving mode, encountering an obstacle is prevented independent of the passage height, due to a control unit if is determined that the obstacle is a load supported by a working machine, where the load projects into a driving corridor of the vehicle or moves in the driving corridor. Also described is a device for carrying out the method and to a vehicle having such a device.
Claims11
A method for operating the assistance system of a vehicle, wherein in an autonomous driving mode of the vehicle, passage under an obstacle having a passage height that has been determined to be sufficiently high is prevented by a control unit, wherein the control unit determines if the obstacle is a working machine carrying a movable load unit, the control unit also determines whether the movable load unit protrudes into the driving route or is moving into the driving route of the vehicle, and wherein the control unit is configured to predict a hazard potential to the vehicle resulting from the movable load unit protruding into or moving into the driving route of the vehicle and to prevent passage under the obstacle only if the predicted hazard potential is at or above a predetermined level.
A method for operating the assistance system of a vehicle, wherein in an autonomous driving mode of the vehicle, passage under an obstacle is prevented by a control unit in the vehicle if the control unit determines:
- the obstacle is a working machine carrying a movable load unit having a variable height with respect to the working machine and
- the movable load unit protrudes into the driving route or is moving into the driving route of the vehicle,
- a hazard potential prediction to the vehicle resulting from the movable load unit protruding into or moving into the driving route of the vehicle,
- and wherein the control unit prevents passage under the obstacle only if the predicted hazard potential is at or above a predetermined level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.