Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Alexander Goetz

Soeren Ungermann

Sebastian Rass

A control unit is provided for operating a driver assistance system for automated lateral guidance of a motor vehicle. The control unit is configured, in a first operating state of the driver assistance system, to determine a target position of a steering wheel of the motor vehicle on the basis of the target steering angle of the motor vehicle which is stipulated by the driver assistance system in the first operating state, and to determine a quotient from the target steering angle which is stipulated by the driver assistance system in the first operating state, and from the target position which is determined therefrom, in order to determine a conversion factor. The control unit is configured, in a second operating state of the driver assistance system which is temporally sequential to the first operating state, by the application of the conversion factor thus determined, to determine a target steering angle equivalent on the basis of the target position of the steering wheel which is stipulated by the driver assistance system in the second operating state, by the application of the conversion factor thus determined, to determine an actual steering angle equivalent on the basis of an actual position of the steering wheel which is determined in the second operating state, and to control an operation of the driver assistance system on the base of a target value/actual value comparison of the target steering angle equivalent and the actual steering angle equivalent.

Control unit and control method for a motor vehicle

An apparatus activates/deactivates a motor vehicle safety system during a turning maneuver. The safety system is designed to carry out a braking operation of the motor vehicle during a turning maneuver if a probability of a collision of the motor vehicle with oncoming traffic is equal to or greater than a determined threshold value. The apparatus includes a detection unit for detecting an actual driving behavior of the vehicle driver, a determining unit for determining whether the actual driver behavior corresponds to a predefined sporty driving behavior, and a control unit for deactivating the safety system prior to carrying out the braking operation when the actual driving behavior corresponds to a predefined sporty driving behavior.

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Munich, Germany

Alexander Goetz