Control of a Motor Vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorStefaan DUYM
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Abstract
A motor vehicle includes an active chassis and a body, wherein the chassis can be actuated to control a distance between the body and the ground, and a method for controlling such a motor vehicle includes determining a driver-controlled actuation of the chassis in order to deflect a chassis clearance at the body of the motor vehicle from a neutral position, determining a geographical candidate position of the motor vehicle, determining a predetermined number of additional candidate positions at which corresponding driver-controlled actuations of the chassis have been carried out, wherein the candidate positions are located in an area of a predetermined size, and determining a hazard zone, wherein the hazard zone includes the candidate positions.
Claims14
A method for controlling a motor vehicle having an active chassis and a body, wherein the chassis is configured to be actuated to control a distance between the body and ground, the method comprising:
- determining a driver-controlled actuation of the chassis in order to deflect a ground clearance at the body of the motor vehicle from a neutral position;
- determining a geographical candidate position of the motor vehicle;
- determining a predetermined number of additional candidate positions at which corresponding driver-controlled actuations of the chassis have been carried out, wherein the candidate positions are in an area of a predetermined size;
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- determining a hazard zone, wherein the hazard zone includes the candidate positions.
A device for controlling a motor vehicle having an active chassis and a body, wherein the chassis is configured to be actuated to control a distance between the body and ground, the device comprising:
- a first interface configured to determine a driver-controlled actuation of the chassis in order to deflect a chassis clearance at the body of the motor vehicle from a neutral position;
- a positioning device configured to determine a geographical candidate position of the motor vehicle;
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- a processing device configured to:
- determine a predetermined number of additional candidate positions at which corresponding driver-controlled actuations of the chassis have been carried out, wherein the candidate positions are in an area of a predetermined size;
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- determine a hazard zone, wherein the hazard zone includes the candidate positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.