Lucas Automotive Gmbh

Zf Active Safety Gmbh

Georg Schneider

Sascha Heinrichs-Bartscher

Philipp Mungenast

Thomas Mueller

Thomas Müller

Guido Kraus

The invention relates to a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle, comprising a surroundings sensor system, a controller, and an analysis module. The controller is equipped and designed so as to ascertain an assistance function control signal on the basis of surroundings data detected by the surroundings sensor system, said assistance function control signal being in a specified functional relationship with at least one assistance system parameter and the detected surroundings data, and to actuate the vehicle so as to provide an assistance function by means of the assistance function control signal. The analysis module is equipped and designed so as to ascertain a success value for the assistance function control signal using reference information and to initiate an optimization of the at least one assistance system parameter if the success value falls below a success threshold.

Driver assistance system and method for an assisted operation of a motor vehicle

In a method for automated avoidance of a collision of a vehicle with an object in the surroundings of the vehicle, multiple vehicle paths are predicted and each one is weighted with a vehicle path probability, the vehicle surroundings are recorded with an imaging vehicle sensor, an object in the vehicle surroundings is captured, at least one object path in the vehicle surroundings is predicted and is weighted with an object path probability, one of the vehicle paths is tested for collision with the at least one object path and if a collision is possible, a collision probability with the at least one object path is calculated, a weighting criterion for an overall collision probability of the vehicle with the object is ascertained and a test is performed of whether the weighting criterion exceeds a threshold and if the threshold is exceeded a collision avoidance maneuver is triggered.

Method for automated prevention of a collision

System for creating a surroundings model of a motor vehicle, which is or can be connected with:

System for creating a vehicle surroundings model

A control system for influencing at least one driver assistance system or comfort system associated with a host motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is in an exceptional scenario, wherein a surroundings sensor system supplies the driver assistance system or comfort system with information concerning the vehicle surroundings and/or the traffic situation the host motor vehicle is in; this driver assistance system or comfort system also influences the longitudinal and/or transverse guidance of the motor vehicle in driving or hazard situations; and for recognizing an exceptional scenario, the control system evaluates the information from the surroundings sensor system and/or a switching device to be actuated by the driver of the motor vehicle in order to at least temporarily switch off, suppress, or reduce the functionality of the at least one driver assistance system or comfort system, based on this evaluation.

System and method for handling exceptional scenarios

A method for use in a driving assistance system of a motor vehicle is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a driver attention module of the driving assistance system, information from at least one input source. The information comprises at least one indicator. The at least one indicator indicates a current attention of a driver of the motor vehicle. The method further comprises deciding, based on the current attention, whether the driving assistance system is to interfere in a current driving operation of the motor vehicle. The method further comprises triggering a signal, by the driver attention module, based on the decision. A driver attention module and a driving assistance system having the driver attention module and a driver fatigue module are further provided.

Enhanced driver attention module for driving assistance system

Driver assistance in a motor vehicle using a navigation system and a road sign display system, wherein: the navigation system accesses map data representing road segments of a road network in the geographic proximity of the motor vehicle and road signs located on the road segments, determines and provides a current position of the motor vehicle located on a road segment, and provides first information of at least one road sign which is located on a road segment to be traveled by the motor vehicle based on the current position of the motor vehicle; the road sign display system detects, based on environment information in front of and/or sideways of the motor vehicle captured via a camera unit, at least one road sign in regard to its position at a road segment and/or its meaning, and provides this second information to the driver assistance system; and wherein the first and second information are compared with each other, and, if the first and second information do not coincide, the first information provided by the navigation system is outputted for an associated signalling for the driver of the motor vehicle or a velocity affecting unit of the motor vehicle.

Driver assistance system for a motor vehicle

Driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, to be connected with a navigation unit and a camera unit; wherein the navigation unit is adapted to access map data representing road segments of a road network located in the geographic proximity of the motor vehicle and road signs located on the road segments, to determine a current position of the motor vehicle located on a road segment, and to provide first information of at least one road sign to the driver assistance system, which road sign is located on a position of a road segment to be traveled by the motor vehicle based on the current position of the motor vehicle. The driver assistance system is adapted to provide second information of the at least one road sign to the camera unit based on the first information provided by the navigation unit. The camera unit is adapted to capture an environment of the motor vehicle, to match the captured environment of the motor vehicle with the second information, to detect a road sign substantially coinciding with the second information in the captured environment, and to provide third information of the at least one detected road sign to the driver assistance system. The driver assistance system is further adapted to output a corresponding signalling to the driver of the motor vehicle or a velocity affecting unit of the motor vehicle based on the third information provided by the camera unit.

Driver assistance of a motor vehicle

Provided is a control system for use in an own motor vehicle adapted to: detect a first other motor vehicle participating in traffic in front of the own motor vehicle and a second other motor vehicle in the rear of the own motor vehicle using at least one surroundings sensor; determine a current driving situation of the own motor vehicle with respect to the current driving situation of the first and second other motor vehicles based on the movements of the first and/or second other motor vehicles and the own motor vehicle; repeatedly determine a measure of a brake requirement in the form of, for example, a time until the beginning of a deceleration; and, provided that a necessity measure exceeds a predetermined threshold, trigger a deceleration of the own vehicle at a point in time which lies before the determined time until the beginning of a deceleration.

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Urbar, Germany

Georg Schneider