Method for operating a motor vehicle during and/or following a collision
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorsOliver Brenneis, Jörn Freyer, Christopher Hantschke
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Abstract
A method for operating a motor vehicle (1), particularly the supply of power to a motor vehicle (1), during and/or in the time period following a collision, wherein the motor vehicle (1) is at least partially deenergized, wherein the supply of electrical power of a vehicle system (9) is determined and switched during and/or following the collision based on at least one criterion (15).
Claims10
A method for supplying power to a motor vehicle having a plurality of vehicle systems, while operating the motor vehicle, during a collision or during a period of time following the collision, or both, comprising at least partially deenergizing the motor vehicle by:
- dividing, based on at least one criterion, the plurality of vehicle systems into at least three classes of vehicle systems,
- determining a supply of power to a particular vehicle system at least partially as a function of a class membership of the vehicle systems,
- determining a supply of power to the particular vehicle system during the collision or during the period of time following the collision, or both,
- deenergizing the vehicle systems based on the at least one criterion, with a first class of vehicle systems being deenergized immediately during or following the collision and with second class of vehicle systems being independently deenergized only after a safety action has been performed, and
- when an availability criterion for available data indicates that one or more of the vehicle systems belonging to at least one of the first and second class or data from the vehicle systems belonging to the first or second class are not available, deenergizing a third class of vehicle systems that depends from the vehicle systems of the first or second class or the data from the vehicle systems of the first or second class.
A motor vehicle, comprising a plurality of vehicle systems divided into at least three classes of vehicle systems based on at least one criterion and at least one control device configured to supply power to the motor vehicle while operating the motor vehicle, during a collision or during a period of time following the collision, or both, wherein the at least one control device is further configured to at least partially deenergize the motor vehicle by
- determining a supply of power to a particular vehicle system at least partially as a function of a class membership of the vehicle systems and determining a supply of power to a particular vehicle system during the collision or following the collision, or both,
- deenergizing the vehicle systems based on the at least one criterion, with a first class of vehicle systems being deenergized immediately during or following the collision and with second class of vehicle systems being independently deenergized only after a safety action has been performed, and
- when an availability criterion indicates that one or more of the vehicle systems belonging to at least one of the first and second class or data from the vehicle systems belonging to the first or second class are not available, deenergizing a third class of vehicle systems that depends from the vehicle systems of the first or second class or the data from the vehicle systems of the first or second class.
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