Driver Assistance System

• US 20100036562A1
• Filed: 07/11/2007
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Becker, Jan-Carsten
• Application Number:
  US12/308,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20100036562A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/41
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/16 Control of distance between vehicles, e.g. keeping a distance to preceding vehicle

Abstract

In a driver assistance system having assistance functions determined by parameters, the driver assistance system is configured to be adaptive via modifiable parameters.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A driver assistance system for a vehicle, comprising:

at least one environment-sensing sensor; and

a control system configured to intervene in vehicle operation with at least one driver assistance function;

wherein at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied based on at least one control characteristic.

16. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 15, wherein the at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied as a function of a vehicle operating characteristic.

17. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 15, wherein the at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied as a function of time.

18. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 16, wherein the at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied as a function of events.

19. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 15, wherein the at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied as a function of a driver of the vehicle.

20. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 19, wherein the at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied according to a continuous characteristics curve.

21. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 20, wherein the at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied according to a linear function.

22. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 20, wherein the at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied according to a non-linear function.

23. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 19, wherein the at least one parameter of the at least one driver assistance function is configured to be adaptively varied according to a step function.

24. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 19, wherein the at least one driver assistance function is a lane-keeping-support function, and wherein in the lane-keeping-support function a steering torque applied by the driver assistance system is adaptively varied.

25. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 19, wherein the at least one driver assistance function is one of an adaptive cruise control function or a braking assistance function, and wherein in one of the adaptive cruise control function or the braking assistance function a braking torque applied by the driver assistance system is adaptively varied.

26. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 19, wherein the at least one driver assistance function is a parking assistance function, and wherein a distance of the vehicle to a surrounding obstacle during implementation of the parking assistance function is adaptively varied depending on a level of experience of the driver of the vehicle with the parking assistance function.

27. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 19, wherein the at least one driver assistance function is a parking assistance function, and wherein a speed of the vehicle during implementation of the parking assistance function is adaptively varied depending on a level of experience of the driver of the vehicle with the parking assistance function.

28. The driver assistance system as recited in claim 19, wherein at least one of a timing and intensity of intervention in vehicle operation with the at least one driver assistance function is adaptively varied depending on a level of experience of the driver of the vehicle with the at least one driver assistance function.