Daimler Chrysler Ag

Thomas Roehrig-Gericke

Reinhold Schoeb

Harry Troester

Richard Zimmer

Gerhard Kurz

Rainer Freitag

Ingo Dudeck

Armin Mueller

Andy Yap

Wofgang Lauer

An automatic brake and steering system and method for a vehicle contains a sensor unit for sensing vehicle state and characteristic variables, and ambient conditions. Furthermore, a control unit and actuator devices are provided for setting the vehicle brake system and/or the vehicle steering system. In order to be able to carry out automatic avoidance maneuvers with maximum safety, an avoidance route is determined if there is an obstacle in the path of the vehicle. Thereby, if there is a further obstacle on the avoidance route, the strategy for determining the avoidance route is applied once more. If it is not possible to find a collision-free avoidance route, that route on which the difference between the remaining braking distance and the remaining distance from the obstacle is smallest is selected.

Automatic brake and steering system and method for a vehicle

A control system for a vehicle has a detection device for generating signals which describe the operating and vehicle state. The latter signals are supplied to a regulating and control unit which generates actuating signals for switching on and off a vehicle component that influences a brake servo device for automatically producing braking force if the accelerator pedal is not actuated by the driver. This &ldquo;acceleration&mdash;automatic braking&rdquo; mode is triggered if the brake pedal has been actuated in a prescribed manner within a defined period of time.

Control system for a vehicle

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Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany

Thomas Roehrig-Gericke