METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING A DRIVING MANEUVER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20160347365A1
• Filed: 05/27/2016
• Published: 12/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: RAMAKERS, Tom, WYSIETZKI, Nadja
• Application Number:
  US15/166,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20160347365A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 15/86 Combinations of sonar systems with lidar systems; Combinations of sonar systems with systems not using wave reflection
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 15/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2015/932 for parking operations
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/52004 Means for monitoring or calibrating short-range imaging G01S7/5205
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/527 Extracting wanted echo signals Doppler systems G01S15/50
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/529 Gain of receiver varied automatically during pulse-recurrence period for seismic signals G01V1/245

Abstract

The invention concerns a method and a device for supporting a driving maneuver of a motor vehicle. With a method according to the invention for supporting a driving maneuver of a motor vehicle, said support is carried out based on the sensor-based detection of the surroundings of the vehicle using at least one ultrasonic sensor, wherein the sensitivity of said at least one ultrasonic sensor is adjusted based on input data characteristic of the current condition of the surface beneath the motor vehicle, not on input data provided by the ultrasonic sensor.

Claims

1. A method for supporting a driving maneuver of a motor vehicle, wherein said support is carried out based on the sensor-based detection of the surroundings of the vehicle using at least one ultrasonic sensor, wherein the sensitivity of said at least one ultrasonic sensor is adjusted based on input data characteristic of the current surface conditions for the motor vehicle, not based on input data provided by the ultrasonic sensor.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said input data comprise GPS data of a GPS sensor.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said input data comprise sensor data of at least one wheel sensor of the motor vehicle.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said input data comprise camera data of a camera sensor of the motor vehicle.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensitivity of the at least one ultrasonic sensor is reduced with increasing roughness of the surface beneath the motor vehicle.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the driving maneuver is a parking maneuver or a turning maneuver.

7. A device for supporting a driving maneuver of a motor vehicle, wherein said support can be carried out based on the sensor-based detection of the surroundings of the vehicle using at least one ultrasonic sensor, wherein the device is configured to carry out the method as claimed in claim 1.