Method and device for predicting the travelling trajectories of a motor vehicle

US7729841B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Michael Knoop · Ludwigsburg, DE
• Goetz Braeuchle · Reichartshausen, DE
• Hermann Winner · Bietigheim, DE
• Michael Weilkes · Sachsenheim, DE
• Martin Heinebrodt · Stuttgart, DE
• Werner Uhler · Bruchsal, DE
• Wolfgang Hermsen · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Joachim Thiele · Beilstein, DE
• Martin Staempfle · Ulm, DE
• Fred Oechsle · Ludwigsburg, DE
• Ulf Wilhelm · Rutesheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 11, 2002
• Grant date: Jun 1, 2010
• Expiry date: Jul 11, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T2260/09
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a method and a device for predicting movement trajectories of a vehicle to prevent or reduce the consequences of an imminent collision, in which for predicting the movement trajectories, only those trajectories are considered for which, because of a combination of steering intervention and braking intervention, the forces occurring at the wheels of the vehicle are within the range corresponding to the maximum force transferable from the wheel to the road. Particularly for systems which provide an automatic braking and/or steering intervention for avoiding a collision or reducing the severity of a crash with another object, an automatic braking and/or steering intervention is carried out as a function of the pre-calculated movement trajectories.