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Method and system for the determination in advance of a travel corridor of a motor vehicle

US6070120A · kind A · utility

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12Claims

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Assignee

Mannesmann VDO AG · DE

Inventors

Peter Sager · Friedrichsdorf, DE
Thomas Landsiedel · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 11, 1997
Grant date	May 30, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 11, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60W2552/30
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for the determining in advance of the travel corridor of a motor vehicle for an automatic system for establishing a safe tailing distance in which a signal corresponding to the speed is used to determine a turning radius of the motor vehicle, the travel corridor being determined from the turning radius. For the exact determination of the travel corridor of the motor vehicle, and in order sufficiently to take into consideration the travel dynamics of the motor vehicle, the speed of at least two wheels of the vehicle are measured and the yawing of the vehicle determined from the difference between the two wheel speeds.

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