Method and system for providing a steering guidance to a driver of a host vehicle

US11167796B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VOLVO CAR CORPORATION · SE

Inventors

• Christoffer Modig · Gothenburg, SE
• Mats Jonasson · Partille, SE
• Derong Yang · Gothenburg, SE
• Rickard Nilsson · Balduinstein, DE
• David Silva Montemayor · Gothenburg, SE
• Andreas Lindberg · Gothenburg, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 18, 2019
• Grant date: Nov 9, 2021
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2554/805
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for assisting a driver of a host vehicle in avoiding a collision, the method including: detecting a target in the vicinity of the vehicle; determining that the host vehicle is travelling on a collision course with the target; detecting a set of road markers on a side of the target; detecting a free space on the side of the road markers opposite the target side of the road markers, and when a collision with the target is predicted to occur within a predetermined time period and no driver initiated steering action for avoiding the collision course has been detected, providing a steering guidance to the driver of the host vehicle including altering of a steering wheel angular orientation for momentarily steering the host vehicle towards the road markers to indicate an evasive steering action to the driver.