Wabco Gmbh

Continental Aktiengesellschaft

Zf Cv Systems Europe Bv

Wabco Europe Bvba

Zf Cv Systems Global Gmbh

Wabco Gmbh & Co Ohg

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Trw Automotive U.S. LLC

Zf Cv Systems Hannover Gmbh

Continental Aktiengessellschaft

Daimeler-Benz Aktiengesellscgaft

Thomas Dieckmann

Axel Stender

Frank Zielke

Thomas Wolf

Christof Maron

Karsten Breuer

Andelko Glavinic

Stephan Kallenbach

Gandert Marcel Rita Van Raemdonck

Ralph-Carsten Luelfing

Hubertus Prinzler

Ulf Laude

Christian Wiehen

Timo Richter

Sören Hübner

Oliver Wulf

Torsten Wallbaum

Janik Ricke

Arne Michaelsen

Sebastian Kuehne

Gerd Schünemann

Andreas Goers

Robert Otremba

Holger Behrends

Ingo Stumberg

Ralph-Carsten Lülfing

Tobias Klinger

Immanuel Henken

Tobias Werle

Julian Van Thiel

Gerhard Ruhnau

Friedrich Tenbrock

Uwe Bensch

Johannes Heseding

Tobias Munko

Gerd Schuenemann

Klaus Plaehn

Daniel Hanslik

Jan Fiebrandt

Detlef Schmidt

Hartmut Kitterer

Klaus Pape

Florian Schwagmeyer

Horst Deike

Richard Matthaei

Dirk Sandkuhler

Bodo Klein

Sebastian Kühne

Jakob Tobias Krost

Josef Oleksik

David Inkermann

Umut Gencaslan

Guido Hoffmann

Dirk Bernhardt

Rouven Petzold

Ralf Wokoeck

Stefan Hauck

Wulf Leitermann

Friedhelm Bergmann

Christopher Neumann

Jan Cohrs

Soeren Huebner

Werner Dreyer

Hartmut Binder

Heiko Kopper

Bijan Gerami-Manesch

Christoph Barth

Waldemar Kamischke

Christoph Moritz

Marco Michel

Klaus Plähn

Jochen Frank

Niklas Broll

Hjalmar Luc Maria Van Raemdonck

Roy Veldhuizen

Christoph Schall

Dan Williams

Guido Hoffman

Marcos Keller

Andr&eacute; Bork

Denis Kusin

Heiner Merten

Axel Peuser

Wolfgang Kloblen

Dalibor Dohnal

Joachim Beck

Miroslav Kadlec

Ricky Hudi

Zdenek Rajch

Michael Graf

Luis Carlos Ramirez Alvarez

Rainer Giese

Tomàs Vaculik

Hans-Peter Schoner

Frank Höwing

Gandert Van Raemdonck

Stephan Pertschy

Robin Gucia

Sven Gohl

Sören HÜBNER

A method for producing an environmental image of an entire multi-part vehicle having a tractor vehicle and at least one trailer vehicle includes providing an image capture device including a front camera for capturing a front capture region in front of the tractor vehicle and outputting a front individual image, front lateral cameras for capturing front lateral capture regions and outputting front lateral individual images, back lateral cameras for capturing back lateral capture regions and outputting back lateral individual images, and a rear camera for capturing a back capture region behind the trailer vehicle and outputting a back individual image. The method includes recording the individual images with the cameras, evaluating and/or cropping the individual images such that overlap regions are in each case formed at least between the front lateral individual images and the back lateral individual images, and combining the individual images to form the environmental image.

Method and environment-capture system for producing an environmental image of an entire multi-part vehicle

A cleaning device for dispensing a gaseous medium and/or a medium mixture includes a mixing element having a first feed connection in a main medium feed line, a second feed connection in a medium feed branch line, and a dispensing connection configured to dispense the gaseous medium and/or the medium mixture. The cleaning device further includes a pressure chamber on the main medium feed line and a switching valve arranged in the main medium feed line, downstream or and/or at the pressure chamber. The switching valve is configured to prevent passage of the gaseous medium through the mixing element in a first switching state and to allow passage of the gaseous medium in a second switching state. The cleaning device optionally additionally includes a regulating device arranged in the medium feed branch line and configured to regulate a feed of the liquid medium.

Cleaning device for applying a media pulse to a surface according to the venturi principle, compressed-air system, cleaning method, control system and vehicle

The disclosure is directed to a method for controlling the deceleration of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes a central control unit, a first brake circuit for a rear axle and a second brake circuit for a front axle. In the method, in the event of an electronically requested deceleration request below a predefined deceleration threshold value, only the brake circuit for the axle, from the rear axle and the front axle, that allows the finest gradation in the pressure change for substantially continuous, jolt-free manipulation of the deceleration is activated by the central control unit and remains activated as long as the predefined deceleration threshold value is not exceeded by the deceleration request. The disclosure is also directed to a braking system and to a vehicle.

Method for controlling the deceleration of a vehicle and braking system therefor

The disclosure relates to a vehicle system for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, that includes an electronically controllable pneumatic braking system, and an electronically controllable steering device. The electronically controllable pneumatic braking system has a redundant control unit, which controls the brake circuits in the event of a failure of an electronic stability control of the braking system during travel. In the event of the failure of the electronic stability control during travel, the redundant control unit performs axle-wise control of the front axle with a front axle redundancy brake pressure and/or of the rear axle with a rear axle redundancy brake pressure and the electronically controllable steering device carries out laterally stabilizing steering interventions in order to keep the vehicle in a tolerance corridor of a predefined target trajectory of the vehicle. The disclosure also relates to a vehicle and a method.

Vehicle system having an esc-fault-tolerant braking system

The disclosure relates to a method for determining object information relating to an object in an environment of a multi-part vehicle having at least one towing vehicle and at least one trailer and a control unit and vehicle associated with it, with at least one trailer camera being arranged on the trailer, having at least the following steps: capturing the environment with a trailer camera from a first position and, in dependence thereon, creating a first image having first pixels; changing the position of the trailer camera; capturing the environment with the trailer camera from a second position and creating a second image having second pixels; and, determining object information relating to an object in the captured environment.

Method for determining object information relating to an object in a vehicle environment, control unit and vehicle

A method for controlling a subject vehicle with a braking system, a drive system and a distance control system, wherein the distance control system is configured to control an actual following distance between the subject vehicle and a vehicle ahead to a predetermined target following distance, wherein the target following distance is predetermined as a function of an activated operating mode of the distance control system, including performing a plausibility check by checking whether V2X data is exchanged or can be exchanged between the vehicle ahead and the subject vehicle over a V2X connection, and activating, if no V2X data is exchanged or can be exchanged between the vehicle ahead and the subject vehicle over the V2X connection, a first operating mode in which a first target following distance is predetermined as a function of a reaction time of a driver of the subject vehicle.

Method for controlling a vehicle and distance regulation control device

The disclosure is directed to a method for slip control of a vehicle wheel driven via an electric drive. The method includes at least the following steps: driving the electric drive of the vehicle wheel using an actual drive torque in a torque control in a torque control step, determining a wheel speed and a wheel slip of the vehicle wheel and evaluating the wheel slip by way of an instability criterion as to whether an instability exists, upon recognizing an instability, direct or indirect transition in a slip control of the wheel slip to a setpoint slip by driving the electric drive, determining whether an end criterion for ending the slip control is satisfied; and, if the end criterion is satisfied, returning to the torque control in the torque control step.

Method for slip control of a vehicle wheel and device therefor

A method for inspecting a vehicle on a site with a management system, including determining whether at least one vehicle on the site intends to make a departure from a stoppage place, generating a control command by the management system, and transmitting the control command to the inspection vehicle such that the inspection vehicle moves along an inspection path to the stoppage place. The method further includes detecting an environment around the inspection vehicle at the stoppage place by the sensor system while a detection zone of the at least one sensor is oriented at least in some regions at a subregion beneath the vehicle and/or at the vehicle. The method further includes determining, in dependence on the sensor signals generated by the sensor system, whether there is an impediment by which the departure of the vehicle is impeded, in order to carry out a pre-departure check.

Method for inspecting a vehicle, and inspection system

A method for the predictive assessment of a current driving situation of a vehicle, in particular utility vehicle, includes determining currently present driving situation information, wherein the driving situation information characterizes the current driving situation of the vehicle. The method includes specifying the driving situation information to a neural algorithm, wherein the neural algorithm assigns, in the manner of a trained neural network, a driving situation category to the currently present driving situation information. The respective driving situation category is based on a predicted driving situation. The neural algorithm determines the predicted driving situation in accordance with the current driving situation and the predicted driving situation indicates a driving situation of the vehicle which will develop in future from the current driving situation. The method includes outputting an output value characterizing the driving situation category, as an assessment result.

Method for predictive assessment of a current driving situation and assessment module

A method for emergency braking of a subject vehicle includes: detecting, using a first surroundings detection system of the subject vehicle traveling in a direction of travel, a front area in front of the subject vehicle; if an object is detected in the front area, determining that a reliable target detection situation is present if at least the following target detection situation criteria are fulfilled: the detected object is a vehicle in front traveling in the direction of travel, the vehicle in front is followed over a minimum following period, in the minimum following period, the same vehicle in front is followed, providing an autonomous emergency braking system which is in an AEBS standby mode during travel outside an emergency braking situation; and if an emergency braking situation is detected outside of a reliable target detection situation, switching the autonomous emergency braking system to an active AEBS mode.

Method for the emergency braking of an ego-vehicle and emergency braking system

A method for braking a vehicle, including checking whether a trigger criterion for braking the vehicle is present, and if the trigger criterion is satisfied, causing a conditioning braking pulse through brief pulsed braking such that passengers experience brief braking of the vehicle, and immediately thereafter initiating a braking phase in which the vehicle is braked in at least two partial braking regions by an actual ego deceleration that varies with respect to time, wherein each partial braking region is extended over a partial braking interval and merge into one another without the actual ego deceleration changing abruptly, and the actual ego deceleration in at least one of the partial braking regions is changed continuously over the respective partial braking interval such that a different actual jerk is obtained in each partial braking region, and wherein the actual jerk behaves degressively over at least some partial braking regions.

Method for braking a vehicle for carrying passengers, control unit, and vehicle for carrying passengers

A vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication unit, for wirelessly transmitting and/or receiving V2X signals comprising data in a vehicle, includes a plurality of V2X modules. Each respective V2X module is connected to at least one antenna configured to transmit and/or receive the V2X signals in a transmission and reception area. Each respective V2X module comprises at least a transmitting unit configured to modulate data to be transmitted via the V2X signals, and/or a receiving unit configured to demodulate data received via the V2X signals. Each V2X module includes a data interface configured to transmit the data to be transmitted and/or the data received via the V2X signal and a logic module. The plurality of V2X modules includes at least two spatially separated V2X modules. The logic module is configured to link the at least two V2X modules in such a way that a logical unit is configured.

V2X communication unit and transmitting vehicle comprising such a V2X communication unit

A data system of a towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle includes a control device, a sensor system configured to record and process sensor data, and a BUS system configured to transfer the sensor data between the control device and the sensor system. The BUS system has a first BUS device in the form of a CAN BUS and a second BUS device in the form of an ETHERNET BUS, and the BUS system further has a first interface configured to transfer the sensor data to a second interface of a second BUS system of a second data system of a second towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle. The data system additionally includes an intelligent switch, coupled to the control device and/or to the first interface, the intelligent switch being configured to couple the first towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle to the second towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle in a coordinated manner.

Data system, data transmission system and method for data transmission for a towing vehicle and/or trailer vehicle

A method for performing an evasive maneuver with a commercial vehicle-trailer combination includes ascertaining that a collision between the commercial vehicle-trailer combination and a collision object is impending. The method further includes determining an evasion trajectory by which the commercial vehicle-trailer combination can evade the collision object without coming into contact with the collision object, determining a desired steering angle based on the evasion trajectory and activating an active steering system of the commercial vehicle-trailer combination in dependence on the determined desired steering angle such that the commercial vehicle-trailer combination moves along the evasion trajectory from a starting traffic lane to a target traffic lane so as to perform the evasive maneuver. The method additionally includes determining a desired vehicle deceleration and initiating an electronic braking system of the commercial vehicle-trailer combination in dependence on the desired vehicle deceleration so as to brake the commercial vehicle-trailer combination.

Method for performing an evasive maneuver with a utility vehicle combination, and emergency evasion system

A vehicle network for a plurality of interconnected vehicles is disclosed. The network is in the form of a WLAN and has at least two access points. The access points are interconnected in a wireless manner, i.e., without using a wired backbone. Each access point uses the same radio network ID, so all access points form only one single visible network for WLAN clients. A method for establishing the vehicle network is also disclosed.

Vehicle network and method for establishing a vehicle network

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Pattensen, Germany

Thomas Dieckmann