Driver assistance system and method for supporting the driver of a vehicle in maintaining a traffic lane limited by traffic lane markings

US8896433B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Danner · Neckartenzlingen, DE
• Uli Kolbe · Stuttgart, DE
• Rainer Moebus · Stuttgart, DE
• Markus Raab · Stilzendorf, DE
• Uwe Regensburger · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Reinhold Schoeb · Traunreut, DE
• Ingo Dudeck · Waiblingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 26, 2008
• Grant date: Nov 25, 2014
• Expiry date: May 5, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T2201/083
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a method and apparatus for assisting the driver of a vehicle in maintaining a traffic lane limited by traffic lane markings, the traffic lane markings and the position of the vehicle in the traffic lane are detected. Upon an actual or impending change of traffic lanes a lane change warning is output to the driver of the vehicle in a first step, and a course correcting actuating intervention counteracting the lane change is carried out in a second step. The actuating intervention is carried out only if the change of traffic lanes is impermissible due to the type of traffic lane marking to be crossed during the traffic lane change, or if the lane change is not possible without danger due to collision-endangering objects present on the side of the traffic lane.