Method and device for assisting a driver of a vehicle in a bottleneck

US9428219B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Folko Flehmig · Stuttgart, DE
• Yuefeng Ma · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 3, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 30, 2016
• Expiry date: Jul 3, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D7/159
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for assisting a vehicle driver in a bottleneck, including the tasks of reading in, evaluating, and providing. In the reading in, a piece of information about a negotiable corridor in the bottleneck, a piece of information about an instantaneous trajectory of the vehicle in the bottleneck, and a piece of information about a steering torque which is presently applied by the driver to a steering of the vehicle are read in. In the evaluating, the pieces of information about the corridor, the trajectory, and the steering torque are evaluated by using known dimensions of the vehicle to recognize an anticipated violation of the corridor by at least one part of the vehicle. In the providing, a control signal is provided for a counter torque which acts against the steering torque when the violation is recognized to assist the driver with avoiding the violation.