Remote-Controlled Parking Assistance System With Autonomous Decision About the Presence of a Parking or Parking-Space-Exiting Situation and Corresponding Parking Method

A parking assistance system which is remote-controllable from outside a motor vehicle and has a remote-controlled parking function for automated parking in and exiting from a parking space, which system permits parking in a forward parking direction or in a reverse parking direction depending on a position of a parking space, wherein the parking assistance system comprises:

• a receiver for receiving a movement direction of the vehicle, selected at a user end, wherein it is possible to receive as a selected movement direction:
• (i) a forward-driving movement direction for driving the vehicle forward and
• (ii) a reverse-driving movement direction for driving the vehicle in reverse;
• and
• a control device which is coupled to the receiver and is configured to:
• decide independently, without user-end specification about the presence of a parking situation or parking-space-exiting situation, whether a parking situation or a parking-space-exiting situation is present,
• when the presence of a parking situation is detected, park the vehicle in accordance with the received selected movement direction by forward driving or driving in reverse into the parking space,
• and
• when the presence of a parking-space-exiting situation is detected, make the vehicle exit the parking space in accordance with the received selected movement direction by way of forward movement or movement in reverse.

A parking method for automated parking of a motor vehicle in a parking space and exiting of the motor vehicle from a parking space, wherein depending on a position of the parking space, parking can be carried out in a forward parking direction or in a reverse parking direction, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

• receiving a movement direction, selected at a user end, of the vehicle from outside the vehicle, wherein it is possible to receive as a selected movement direction:
• (i) a forward-driving movement direction for driving the vehicle forward and
• (ii) a reverse-driving movement direction for driving the vehicle in reverse, and
• without user-end specification about a presence of a parking situation or parking-space-exiting situation, deciding autonomously as to whether there is a parking situation or a parking-space-exiting situation,
• when the presence of a parking situation is detected, parking the vehicle in accordance with the received selected movement direction by forward movement or reverse movement into the parking space, and
• when the presence of a parking-space-exiting situation is detected, moving the vehicle out of the parking space in accordance with the received selected movement direction by forward movement or reverse movement out of the parking space.