Method and Device for Evaluating Driving Situations
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsAlfred Kuttenberger, Carsten Joachim
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Abstract
A method and a device for evaluating driving situations, where driving-state data are ascertained and evaluated. The driving-state data are evaluated and numerically represented with regard to their risk potential for vehicle occupants, an overall risk potential (total risk) being determined by ascertaining and/or estimating currently acting forces and/or forces to be expected and a movement of the occupant resulting from them.
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1-10. (canceled)
A method for evaluating driving situations, comprising:
- ascertaining and evaluating driving-state data, the driving-state data being evaluated and numerically represented with regard to risk potential for vehicle occupants, an overall risk potential being determined by at least one of ascertaining and estimating at least one of current acting forces, forces to be expected and a movement of the occupant resulting from them.
The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the abstract numeral value is in a range of 0 to 1.
A device for evaluating driving situations, comprising:
- an evaluating and control unit adapted to receive driving-state data from at least one of an ESP control unit, an ABS control unit, and an airbag control unit, the evaluating and control unit further adapted to evaluate the driving state data with regard to a risk potential for vehicle occupants and to output it in the form of a numerical representation to a triggering unit for an occupant-protection system, the evaluating and control unit further adapted to determine an overall risk potential by at least one of ascertaining and calculating, at least one of current forces and forces to be expected, and a movement of the occupant resulting from them.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.