Automatic emergency braking method and arrangement

US6084508A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Rudolf Mai · Wolfsburg, DE
• Ralf Bergholz · Frebershausen, DE
• Ernst Lissel · Wolfsburg, DE
• Franciscus Van Meel · Böhmfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 1998
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 13, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T2260/02
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and arrangement for emergency braking of a vehicle includes a detection system on the vehicle which detects obstacles located in or near the direction of motion of the vehicle and generates corresponding data, sensors on the vehicle which generate data representing characteristic parameters of the condition of the vehicle, and an evaluating unit which determines, from the data on the obstacles and the parameters of the condition of the vehicle, target values for controlling the motion of the vehicle and, only upon determining that an impending collision of the vehicle with an obstacle is no longer avoidable by any action on the vehicle by steering or braking, triggers an automatic emergency braking for rapid deceleration of the vehicle.