METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT AN AUTOMATIC PARKING PROCESS OF A VEHICLE

• US 20170313305A1
• Filed: 09/29/2015
• Published: 11/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Irion, Albrecht, Mathony, Hans-Joerg, Nicodemus, Rolf, Hoffmann, Stefan, Nordbruch, Stefan
• Granted Patent: US 10,286,903 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/06 Automatic manoeuvring for parking
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0285 Parking performed automatically
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096725 where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096816 where the complete route is transmitted to the vehicle at once
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/142 external to the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/148 Management of a network of parking areas
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/168 Driving aids for parking, e.g. acoustic or visual feedback on parking space

Abstract

A method (and corresponding parking facility management server, parking system, and computer program) for carrying out an automatic parking process of a vehicle includes a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility being sent to a parking facility management server via a communication network, navigation data for an autonomous navigation to the reserved parking position corresponding to the reservation request being received by the vehicle via the communication network, and the vehicle autonomously navigating in the parking facility to the reserved parking position based on the navigation data. It is preferably provided that the vehicle autonomously pulls into the parking position, pulls out of this parking position, and travels back to a drop-off position or pick-up position, from which a driver of the vehicle may pick up the vehicle.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A method for carrying out an automatic parking process of a vehicle, the method comprising:

sending, by the vehicle and via a communication network, a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility to a parking facility management server;

receiving, by the vehicle and via the communication network, navigation data for an autonomous navigation to the reserved parking position corresponding to the reservation request; and

the vehicle autonomously navigating in the parking facility to the reserved parking position based on the navigation data.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

when an anticipated arrival time of the vehicle at the parking facility is later than a parking start time included in the transmitted reservation request, transmitting a reservation modification request to the parking facility management server via the communication network in order to be able to modify the reservation.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the reservation request includes one or more of the following parking parameters:

parking duration, start of parking, end of parking, size of the parking position, woman'"'"'s parking position, family parking position, parking position having a charging station for electric vehicles, parking position having a monitoring function, and payment function.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the navigation data include one or more of the following data:

map data from a digital map of the parking facility, route data regarding a route to be traveled in the parking facility, traffic data relating to at least one of one or more permissible maximum speeds in the parking facility and right-of-way rules that apply in the parking facility or in critical areas of the parking facility.

26. The method of claim 22, wherein a route to the parking space is ascertained, the vehicle autonomously traveling the ascertained route to the parking space.

27. The method of claim 22, further comprising, after an end of the parking process, the vehicle autonomously traveling from the parking position to a pick-up position at which a driver of the vehicle is able to pick up the vehicle.

28. The method of claim 22, wherein the vehicle is an electric vehicle, and the parking position includes a charging function for charging a vehicle battery, the method further comprising automatically starting a charging process for the electric vehicle after the vehicle has pulled into the parking position.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising, after the charging process is completed, autonomously re-parking the vehicle into a new parking position.

30. The method of claim 22, further comprising receiving information and the vehicle autonomously traveling to the parking position based on the information.

31. The method of claim 22, further comprising the vehicle at least one of autonomously pulling into the parking position and autonomously pulling out of the parking position.

32. A parking facility management server for a parking facility, the server comprising:

a communication interface to a communication network; and

a processor;

wherein the processor is configured to;

receive, via the communication interface, a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility for a vehicle;

responsive to the request, ascertain the parking position and navigation data for an autonomous navigation in the parking facility to the parking position; and

transmit the navigation data to the vehicle and via the communication interface.

33. The parking facility management server of claim 32, wherein the communication interface is configured to receive a reservation modification request, including a likely arrival time of the vehicle at the parking facility, and the processor is configured to modify the reservation with respect to the anticipated arrival time depending on the reservation modification request.

34. The parking facility management server of claim 32, wherein the processor is configured to control a monitoring system for at least one of monitoring and documenting at least one of autonomous travel of the vehicle in the parking facility, a movement of the vehicle into a parking space in the parking facility, and a movement of the vehicle out of the parking space in the parking facility.

35. The parking facility management server of claim 32, wherein the processor is configured to ascertain a start signal for starting the vehicle once a parking time included in the reservation request is exceeded, and to transmit, via the communication interface and to the parked vehicle, the start signal.

36. The parking facility management server of claim 32, wherein the processor is configured to set an electronic occupancy status of the parking position to available or occupied according to an actual occupancy.

37. The parking facility management server of claim 32, wherein the processor is configured to:

reserve for the vehicle a parking position that includes a charging function for charging a vehicle battery; and

automatically initiate a charging process after the vehicle has pulled into the parking position.

38. A method for operating a parking facility management server, the method comprising:

receiving, via a communication interface to a communication network, a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility for a vehicle; and

responsive to the reservation request;

ascertaining, by processing circuitry, a parking position and navigation data for an autonomous navigation in the parking facility to the parking position; and

the processor transmitting the navigation data to the vehicle via the communication interface and communication network.

39. A device for reserving a parking position of a parking facility, the device comprising:

a communication interface to a communication network; and

processing circuitry;

wherein the processing circuitry is configured to ascertain a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility for a vehicle and transmit the reservation request to a parking facility management server via the communication interface.

40. A parking system for vehicles, the parking system comprising:

a parking facility including multiple parking positions and a parking facility management server, the server including a processor and a communication interface to a communication network;

wherein the processor is configured to;

receive, via the communication interface, a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility for a vehicle;

responsive to the request, ascertain the parking position and navigation data for an autonomous navigation in the parking facility to the parking position; and

transmit the navigation data to the vehicle and via the communication interface.

41. A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which are stored instructions that are executable by a processor of a vehicle and that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method for carrying out an automatic parking process of a vehicle, the method comprising:

sending a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility to a parking facility management server;

receiving navigation data for an autonomous navigation to the reserved parking position corresponding to the reservation request; and

controlling the vehicle to autonomously navigate in the parking facility to the reserved parking position based on the navigation data.