Method and device for operating a cruise control system
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorChristoph Mayser
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Abstract
A device for controlling a cruise control system of a vehicle, the device being designed to detect manual actuation of a brake of the vehicle while the cruise control system is active, and to determine whether the manual actuation of the brake should be interpreted as a switch-off request for deactivation of the cruise control system or not. Furthermore, the device is designed to deactivate or continue the cruise control system in accordance with the determination.
Claims17
A control unit comprising a processor for controlling a cruise control system of a vehicle, wherein the control unit is configured to:
- detect that a brake of the vehicle is manually actuated while the cruise control system is active;
- determine whether or not the manual actuation of the brake should be interpreted as a switch-off request for deactivating the cruise control system;
- and,
- deactivate or continue the cruise control system on the basis of the determination;
- identify a bend in a road used by the vehicle;
- and,
- determine on the basis of the identified bend that the manual actuation of the brake should not be interpreted as a switch-off request for deactivating the cruise control system.
A control unit comprising a processor for controlling a cruise control system of a vehicle, wherein the control unit is configured to:
- detect that a brake of the vehicle is manually actuated while the cruise control system is active;
- identify an upcoming stopping position for the vehicle at a junction;
- reduce a target speed of the cruise control system in response thereto in order to cause the vehicle to be put into a standstill state at the upcoming stopping position and to be kept in the standstill state;
- identify a start-up request from a driver of the vehicle;
- and,
- accelerate the vehicle starting from the standstill state in response to the identified start-up request in order to continue the cruise control system at a set speed stipulated by the driver, even before the detected manual actuation of the brake,
- wherein in the standstill state, the cruise control system is in an active standby mode with a target speed of zero, and the vehicle is kept at a standstill by actively controlling a brake of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.