Method, computer program product, central control unit and control system for controlling at least partly automated vehicles in a roadway danger zone, in particular intersections of roadways in road traffic

US11958479B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Kai Höfig · Hersbruck, DE
• Cornel Klein · Oberhaching, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2019
• Grant date: Apr 16, 2024
• Expiry date: Feb 18, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/44
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In order to control at least partially automated vehicles in a road danger zone, in particular road junctions in road traffic, in such a way that the vehicles can pass through the road danger zone in flowing traffic without stop/start interruptions, such as those caused e.g. by signalling equipment, traffic lights, the following proposes the following steps: a) each vehicle of the vehicles, on approaching the road danger zone, surrender the power to control the dynamic driving tasks of the vehicle in order to pass through said zone, b) when the vehicles have surrendered vehicle control power, a central control entity generates a digital road danger zone twin, and, as a result of the vehicles having surrendered vehicle control power, vehicle movements of the vehicle are automatically and dynamically controlled in a vehicle-coordinated and collision-free manner in order to pass through the road danger zone.