Method for collision avoidance between a vulnerable road user transportation vehicle and a surrounding transportation vehicle, vulnerable road user transportation vehicle, further transportation vehicle, and computer program

US11046308B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Thorsten HEHN · Wolfsburg, DE
• Marcel Günther Penz · Berlin, DE
• Tobias Ludwig · Lehre, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 8, 2018
• Grant date: Jun 29, 2021
• Expiry date: May 7, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2050/143
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for collision avoidance between a vulnerable road user transportation vehicle and a surrounding transportation vehicle. The user of the vulnerable road user transportation vehicle makes use of a portable communication device. Since such vulnerable road users are often involved in accidents since they are not easily recognized in the traffic, the disclosure increases safety for these vulnerable road users. The method includes transferring position detecting sensor data or derived position data of the vulnerable road user transportation vehicle to the portable communication device which performs a map matching technique for refining the position data and transfers the refined position data to the vulnerable road user transportation vehicle. The vulnerable road user transportation vehicle distributes the refined position data to the surrounding transportation vehicles which calculate a trajectory for the vulnerable road user transportation vehicle and estimate the risk of a collision.