METHOD FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE DURING A PASSING MANEUVER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20100057321A1
• Filed: 06/15/2007
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Urban, Werner, Randler, Martin
• Application Number:
  US12/227,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20100057321A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/96
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2754/30 Longitudinal distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/16 Control of distance between vehicles, e.g. keeping a distance to preceding vehicle

Abstract

In a method for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle having an adaptive cruise control device, the following method steps are used: a preceding object is ascertained as a target object, a distance of the motor vehicle to the target object is ascertained, a relative velocity between the motor vehicle and the target object is ascertained, and a plausibility check corridor is narrowed as a function of the distance and the relative velocity.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A method for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle having an adaptive cruise control device, comprising:

ascertaining a preceding object as a target object;

ascertaining a distance of the motor vehicle to the target object;

ascertaining a relative velocity between the motor vehicle and the target object; and

narrowing a plausibility check corridor as a function of the distance and the relative velocity, wherein the plausibility check corridor is an area of anticipated travel-path of the motor vehicle.

12. A method for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle having an adaptive cruise control device, comprising:

ascertaining a preceding object as a target object;

ascertaining a distance value of the motor vehicle to the target object;

comparing the distance value to a first predefined value;

ascertaining a relative velocity value between the motor vehicle and the target object;

comparing the relative velocity value to a second predefined value; and

narrowing a plausibility check corridor by a narrowing value as a function of the distance value comparison and the relative velocity value comparison, wherein the plausibility check corridor is an area of anticipated travel-path of the motor vehicle.

15. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the narrowing value is a constant.

17. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the narrowing value is selected as a function of the comparisons.

19. The method as recited in claim 12, wherein the narrowing value is the product of a selected constant multiplied by a quotient of the square of the relative velocity value and the square of the distance value.

13. A method for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle having an adaptive cruise control device, comprising:

ascertaining a preceding object as a target object;

ascertaining a distance of the motor vehicle to the target object;

ascertaining a relative velocity between the motor vehicle and the target object;

ascertaining a travel-path offset between the motor vehicle and the target object; and

narrowing a plausibility check corridor as a function of the distance, the relative velocity, and the travel-path offset, wherein the plausibility check corridor is an area of anticipated travel-path of the motor vehicle.

14. A method for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle having an adaptive cruise control device, comprising:

ascertaining a preceding object as a target object;

ascertaining a distance value of the motor vehicle to the target object;

comparing the distance value to a first predefined value;

ascertaining a relative velocity value between the motor vehicle and the target object;

comparing the relative velocity value to a second predefined value;

ascertaining a travel-path offset value between the motor vehicle and the target object;

comparing the travel-path offset value to a third predefined value; and

narrowing a plausibility check corridor by a narrowing value as a function of the distance value comparison, the relative velocity value comparison and the travel-path offset value comparison, wherein the plausibility check corridor is an area of anticipated travel-path of the motor vehicle.

16. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein the narrowing value is a constant.

18. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein the narrowing value is selected as a function of the comparisons.

20. The method as recited in claim 14, wherein the narrowing value is the product of a selected constant multiplied by a quotient of the square of the relative velocity value and the square of the distance value.

21. A method for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle having an adaptive cruise control device, comprising:

ascertaining a preceding object as a target object;

ascertaining a travel-path offset between the motor vehicle and the target object; and

narrowing a plausibility check corridor as a function of the travel-path offset, wherein the plausibility check corridor is an area of anticipated travel-path of the motor vehicle.

22. A method for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle having an adaptive cruise control device, comprising the following method steps:

ascertaining a preceding object as a target object;

ascertaining a travel-path offset value between the motor vehicle and the target object;

comparing the travel-path offset value to a predefined value; and

narrowing a plausibility check corridor by a narrowing value as a function of the travel-path offset value comparison, wherein the plausibility check corridor is an area of anticipated travel-path of the motor vehicle.

23. A device for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle has an adaptive cruise control device, comprising:

23-1. A device for providing assistance during a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle has an adaptive cruise control device, comprising:

ascertaining a preceding object as a target object;

ascertaining a distance of the motor vehicle to the target object;

ascertaining a relative velocity between the motor vehicle and the target object; and

narrowing a plausibility check corridor as a function of the distance and the relative velocity, wherein the plausibility check corridor is an area of anticipated travel-path of the motor vehicle.