DRIVER-INDEPENDENT TRANSFER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20170011631A1
• Filed: 06/30/2016
• Published: 01/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Blott, Gregor, Nordbruch, Stefan, Rexilius, Jan, Warzelhan, Jan Karl
• Application Number:
  US15/198,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20170011631A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0285 Parking performed automatically
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/04 using optical or ultrasonic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/042 using inductive or magnetic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/143 inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/146 where the parking area is a limited parking space, e.g. parking garage, restricted space

Abstract

A motor vehicle is to be transferred over a segment between a transfer point and a parking space of a parking facility. A method includes steps of detecting a motor vehicle that is to be parked in a parking space, determining unoccupied parking spaces in the parking facility, determining a traffic volume in the parking facility, and selecting one of the unoccupied parking spaces in such a way that the traffic volume on a segment between the transfer point and the selected parking space is preferably minimized. Subsequently, the motor vehicle may be guided driver-independently from the transfer point to the selected parking space.

Claims

1. A method for driver-independent transfer of a motor vehicle over a segment between a transfer point and a parking space of a parking facility, the method comprising:

detecting a motor vehicle that is to be parked in a parking space;

determining unoccupied parking spaces in the parking facility;

determining a traffic volume in the parking facility; and

selecting one of the unoccupied parking spaces in such a way that the traffic volume on a segment between the transfer point and the selected parking space is minimized.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the traffic volume is determined on the basis of an ongoing transfer of another motor vehicle.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the traffic volume is determined on the basis of a planned transfer of another motor vehicle.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the traffic volume is determined on the basis of scanning a traffic area located between the transfer point and an unoccupied parking space.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein a trajectory of an object on the traffic area is determined and the traffic volume is predicted on the basis of the trajectory.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the traffic volume is determined on the basis of a reservation of a parking space.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable data carrier storing a computer program code for driver-independent transfer of a motor vehicle over a segment between a transfer point and a parking space of a parking facility, the program code, when executed by a processing device, causing the processing device to perform:

detecting a motor vehicle that is to be parked in a parking space;

determining unoccupied parking spaces in the parking facility;

determining a traffic volume in the parking facility; and

selecting one of the unoccupied parking spaces in such a way that the traffic volume on a segment between the transfer point and the selected parking space is minimized.

8. A device for driver-independent control of a transfer of a motor vehicle over a segment between a transfer point and a parking space of a parking facility, the device comprising:

a detecting device for a motor vehicle that is to be parked in a parking space;

a first determining device for determining unoccupied parking spaces in the parking facility;

a second determining device for determining a traffic volume in the parking facility; and

a processing device for selecting one of the unoccupied parking spaces in such a way that the traffic volume on a segment between the transfer point and the selected parking space is minimized.

9. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein the first determining device includes a vehicle sensor for determining an occupancy state of a parking space.

10. The device as recited in claim 8, wherein a vehicle sensor is assigned to each of a number of parking spaces of the parking facility.