Method and apparatus for avoiding or mitigating vehicle collisions

US8150583B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Danner · Neckartenzlingen, DE
• Thomas Dohmke · Waldenbuch, DE
• Joerg Hillenbrand · Ettlingen, DE
• Volker Schmid · Erbach, DE
• Andreas Spieker · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 2005
• Grant date: Apr 3, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 23, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S2013/9325
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a method and apparatus for collision avoidance or collision mitigation for a vehicle, an existing driving space between the vehicle and a potential collision object is detected. A first warning function and/or an information function is activated when a first threshold value is reached. A system intervention with autonomous partial braking combined with at least one further safety measure is activated when a second threshold value is reached.