Volkswagen Ag

Ernst Lissel

Hermann Rohling

Ulrich Bahr

Marc-Michael Meinecke

Gerald Oberschmidt

Ralf Bergholz

Bernd-Guido Schulze

Arne Jacob

Axel Schoft

Rudolf Mai

Franciscus Van Meel

Raimond Holze

Ralf Mende

Maria Binfet-Kull

Stephanus Buettgenbach

Andreas Schlachetzki

Holger Schroeter

Erwin Peiner

Hergo-H Wehmann

Carsten Metz

A device for detecting objects, especially used as a parking assistance device in a motor vehicle, includes a plurality of distance sensors, at least one microcontroller configured to control the distance sensors and an output unit. The distance sensors emit a signal in accordance with an identifier that is modified over time by the microcontroller.

Method and device for detecting objects, especially used as a parking assistance device in a motor vehicle

A radar sensor and a radar antenna are for monitoring the environment of a motor vehicle. A compact construction is achieved by the planar array of both the control circuit and the radar antenna, so that the radar sensor may be located, for example, in the area of a motor-vehicle bumper. Example configurations consist of the separate line support for arranging lines to transmit high-frequency signals between the control circuit and the radar antenna and the configuration of the radar antenna as a Rotman lens, in relation to the signal propagation times and the layered arrangement of Rotman lens and group antenna.

Radar sensor and radar antenna for monitoring the environment of a motor vehicle

The present invention relates to a CW radar method for measuring distances between and relative speeds of a vehicle and one or more obstacles. The present invention further provides that the transmission (s(t)) can be composed of at least four consecutive chirps (A, B, C, D), each having different slopes. The intersection points of all lines in the distance-relative speed diagram from two chirps (A, B) can be calculated from all the ascertained frequency positions K and K . To validate those intersection points, one may observe whether a peak exists in the Fourier spectrum of a third chirp C at a frequency position K , whose assigned line intersects a surrounding area of the intersection point in the distance-relative speed diagram. A further validation of those intersection points involves observing whether a peak exists in the Fourier spectrum of a fourth chirp D at a frequency position K , whose assigned line intersects a surrounding area of the intersection point in the distance-relative speed diagram. The intersection points are then regarded as valid, when they satisfy both conditions.

Radar method for measuring distances between and relative speeds of a vehicle and one or more obstacles

An arrangement for steering a motor vehicle having at least two steerable wheels including steering equipment for setting the position of the steerable wheels as a function of a desired steering angle signal and braking equipment which is present in the vehicle and which, in the event of a fault in the steering equipment, produces selectively different braking forces at the wheels as a function of the desired steering signal. A method for steering a motor vehicle in the event of failure of the steering equipment includes the step of applying different braking forces to the vehicle wheels in accordance with a desired steering angle signal.

Arrangement and method for steering a motor vehicle

A method and arrangement for emergency braking of a vehicle includes a detection system on the vehicle which detects obstacles located in or near the direction of motion of the vehicle and generates corresponding data, sensors on the vehicle which generate data representing characteristic parameters of the condition of the vehicle, and an evaluating unit which determines, from the data on the obstacles and the parameters of the condition of the vehicle, target values for controlling the motion of the vehicle and, only upon determining that an impending collision of the vehicle with an obstacle is no longer avoidable by any action on the vehicle by steering or braking, triggers an automatic emergency braking for rapid deceleration of the vehicle.

Automatic emergency braking method and arrangement

An arrangement for determining the distance of objects has a number of electrostatic ultrasonic transducers which are formed from superposed layers. Fixed electrodes for the transducers and conductive tracks connected to them are formed in a first structured metal layer. The other layers are an insulation layer and a full-surface second metal layer on the insulation layer which provides counterelectrodes for the electrodes provided by the first metal layer.

Arrangement for determining the distance of objects

In the particular embodiment disclosed in the specification, a CW radar process for measurement of distances and relative speeds between a vehicle and one or more obstructions including transmitting a sequence of constant-frequency radar signal bursts which follow one another without any time interval during four successive measurements. In the first measurement, the radar signal bursts are of sequentially increasing frequency and in the second measurement they are of sequentially decreasing frequency while in the third measurement they have the same frequency and in the fourth measurement the burst frequencies follow a coded pattern. Demodulation of the signals which are reflected by obstructions is carried out by mixing them with the transmitted signals using only one single-channel mixer providing an output signal which is not the signal of a phase curve but of an amplitude curve.

Radar process for the measurement of distances and relative speeds

Contactless measurement of the distance traveled by a vehicle during selected time intervals is provided by a device operating on the Doppler principle. The device has a 'phase-locked loop' circuit which generates pulse signals having a frequency proportional to the vehicle velocity. Using the pulses as path length increases, the pulses are added in a counter and the counter output is supplied to an indicating unit to indicate the distance traveled by the vehicle.

Device operating on the doppler principle to determine the distance

The invention concerns a method for propulsion regulation of an automobile in the sense of prevention of undesirable spinning of the driven vehicle wheels whereby, as needed, only one of the wheel brakes is activated or the engine torque is reduced. Thereby is determined in the manner of an adaptive regulation in constant repetition from measured rotational speeds and stored vehicle and engine parameters for each driven wheel according to the relation M.sub.u =.theta.*..DELTA..omega., the excess moment causing the spinning of the wheel concerned and subsequently for each of the driven wheels in accordance with the relation M.sub.red =M.sub.u +k(.DELTA..omega.-s) the reduction moment required to eliminate the spinning/tendency to spin, which reduction moment is caused to be applied, depending on each driving situation, either in form of a brake torque in the correct magnitude and/or in form of a reduction of the engine torque in the correct magnitude.

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Wolfsburg, Germany

Ernst Lissel