Method and apparatus for recognizing a towing operation of a vehicle
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsBruno Kartmann, Michael Egert
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Abstract
A method and an associated apparatus for recognizing a towing operation of a vehicle. A towing operation is recognized by detecting an acceleration of the vehicle immediately after activation of the vehicle ignition and at the same time detecting that there is no actuation of the accelerator pedal or no torque request from a driver assistance system. Upon recognition of the towing operation, an automatic function that intervenes in the acceleration, deceleration, or steering of the towed vehicle is blocked.
Claims9
A method for recognizing a towing operation of a vehicle, the method comprising the following steps:
- recognizing a towing operation based on:
- detecting an acceleration of the vehicle immediately after activation of an ignition of the vehicle, and recognizing that there is no actuation of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle and there is no torque request from a driver assistance system of the vehicle;
- and
- blocking, upon recognition of the towing operation, an automatic function that intervenes in an acceleration or a deceleration or a steering of the towed vehicle.
An apparatus for recognizing a towing operation of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
- a control device including a microprocessor or a system application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or a microcontroller, the control device configured to:
- recognize a towing operation if a directly preceding activation of the vehicle ignition was detected with an arrangement for recognizing an ignition state of the vehicle, and a vehicle acceleration was detected with an arrangement for detecting an acceleration of the vehicle, an arrangement for detecting an accelerator pedal actuation recognizes that an accelerator pedal of the vehicle has not been actuated, and an arrangement for detecting torque requests to the drive train recognizes that there is no torque request from a driver assistance system;
- and
- block, upon recognition of the towing operation, an intervention of an automatic function that intervenes in an acceleration or deceleration or steering of the towed vehicle.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium on which is stored a computer program for recognizing a towing operation of a vehicle, the computer program, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform the following steps comprising:
- recognizing a towing operation based on:
- detecting an acceleration of the vehicle immediately after activation of an ignition of the vehicle and recognizing that there is no actuation of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle and there is no torque request from a driver assistance system of the vehicle;
- and
- blocking, upon recognition of the towing operation, an automatic function that intervenes in an acceleration or a deceleration or a steering of the towed vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.