Method of controlling at least one autonomously driving vehicle

US6996462B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Harro Heilmann · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Rainer Konzmann · Herrenberg, DE
• Andreas Schwarzhaupt · Oberrot, DE
• Gernot Spiegelberg · Heimsheim, DE
• Armin Sulzmann · Oftersheim, DE
• Christof Weber · Burghausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 18, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 7, 2006
• Expiry date: Feb 23, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/09685
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method of controlling at least one autonomously driven vehicle, such a vehicle is driven on a restricted traffic surface. For this purpose, the autonomous vehicle has a driving device for implementing driving commands on the basis of fed signals. The driving commands relate to the driving direction as well as to the driving speed. The vehicle detects its actual position by means of a position indicating device, and transmits its position to an operations management center. In the operations management center, a route profile to be driven is determined from position signals by means of definable criteria and is transmitted to the driving device of the vehicle. Driving commands required for driving the route profile are generated in the vehicle by the driving device.