Method for the autonomous or partly autonomous execution of a cooperative driving maneuver

US11180150B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Monique Engel · Braunschweig, DE
• Bernd Rech · Bokensdorf, DE
• Stefan Gläser · Bottighofen, CH
• Teodor BUBURUZAN · Braunschweig, DE
• Bernd LEHMANN · Chemnitz, DE
• Sandra KLEINAU · Rötgesbüttel, DE
• Hendrik-Jörn Günther · Hannover, DE
• Johannes Hartog · Braunschweig, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2017
• Grant date: Nov 23, 2021
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/0257
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for autonomously or semi-autonomously carrying out a cooperative driving maneuver and a vehicle. Provision is made for a maneuvering vehicle which plans the execution of a driving maneuver to determine a maneuvering area of a road in which the driving maneuver is potentially executed, to communicate with one or more vehicles via vehicle-to-vehicle communication to detect one or more cooperation vehicles which will presumably be inside the maneuvering area during the execution of the driving maneuver, and to adapt its own driving behavior to the presumable driving behavior of the one or more cooperation vehicles to execute the planned driving maneuver. The disclosure provides a possibility which, by vehicle-to-vehicle communication, allows vehicles for jointly carrying out a cooperative driving maneuver to be identified and then allows the cooperative driving maneuver to be executed.