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US 9,168,954 B2Granted
Method for parking a vehicle and corresponding parking assistance system and vehicle
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsPhilipp Hüger, Ulrich Wuttke
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Abstract
A method to park a vehicle using a parking assistance system, a target position of the vehicle within a parking space is automatically determined. A parking process of the parking assistance system is considered successfully ended when the vehicle reaches the target position. In order to carry out the parking process of the parking assistance system, a steering intervention in a steering system of the vehicle is automatically activated. A state that prevents the target position from being reached is automatically detected during the parking process. Depending on the state, the target position is newly determined and the parking process is continued with the newly determined target position.
Claims25
A method for facilitating parking a vehicle using a parking assistance system, the method comprising:
- automatically determining a target position of the vehicle within a parking space, wherein, when the target position is reached by the vehicle, a parking process of the parking assistance system is successfully ended;
- automatically activating a steering intervention into a steering system of the vehicle to carry out the parking process of the parking assistance system;
- automatically sensing, during the parking process, a gear speed change-of the vehicle sensed at a time at which the vehicle covers at least part of the parking space, the gear speed change preventing:
- the target position from being reached;
- automatically redetermining a different target position within the parking space as a function of the gear speed change in response to the automatic sensing of the gear speed change of the vehicle;
- and
- automatically continuing the parking process with the different target position which has been redetermined in response to the automatic redetermination of the different target position.
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A parking assistance system for a vehicle, the parking assistance system comprising:
- a controller;
- at least one sensor that measures surroundings of the vehicle;
- and
- a gear change sensor that senses a gear change of the vehicle when the vehicle covers at least part of a parking space,
- wherein the controller activates a steering intervention of the assistance system into a steering system of the vehicle to carry out the parking process of the parking assistance system,
- wherein the at least one sensor is configured to determine a target position of the vehicle inside the parking space, wherein, when the target position is reached by the vehicle, the controller ends a parking process of the parking assistance system,
- wherein the gear change sensor is configured to sense, during the parking process, a gear change of the vehicle which prevents the vehicle from reaching the target position, and
- wherein the controller redetermines a different target position inside the parking space as a function of the gear change in response to the sensing of the vehicle gear change and automatically continues the parking process with the redetermined different target position in response to the automatic redetermination of the target position.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a steering system;
- and
- a parking assistance system that includes a controller, at least one sensor that measures surroundings of the vehicle and a gear change sensor:
- wherein the at least one sensor is configured to determine a target position of the vehicle inside a parking space, wherein, when the target position is reached by the vehicle, the controller ends a parking process of the parking assistance system,
- wherein the gear change sensor is configured to sense, during the parking process, a gear change of the vehicle which prevents the vehicle from reaching the target position,
- wherein the controller activates a steering intervention of the assistance system into the steering system of the vehicle to carry out the parking process of the parking assistance system, and
- wherein the controller redetermines a different target position inside the parking space as a function of the gear change in response to the sensing of the vehicle gear change and automatically continues the parking process with the redetermined different target position in response to the automatic redetermination of the target position.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a steering system;
- and
- a parking assistance system,
- wherein the parking assistance system is configured to:
- determine a target position of the vehicle within a parking space, wherein, when the target position is reached by the vehicle, a parking process of the parking assistance system is successfully ended;
- activate a steering intervention into a steering system of the vehicle to carry out the parking process of the parking assistance system;
- sense, during the parking process, a gear change of the vehicle which prevents the target position from being reached;
- automatically redetermine a different target position within the parking space as a function of the gear change in response to the sensing of the vehicle gear change;
- and
- automatically continue the parking process with the different target position which has been redetermined in response to the automatic redetermination of the target position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.