Method for controlling a motor vehicle and device therefor

• US 8,897,926 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2009
• Issued: 11/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Sthlin, Ulrich, Diebold, Jrgen
• Primary Examiner(s): Badii, Behrang
• Application Number:
  US13/125,079
• Publication Number:
  US 20110245992A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,866 Days
• Field of Search: 701/36, 701/45, 701/1, 701/41, 701/532, 701/42, 701/48, 701/97, 180/170, 180/271, 180/169, 704/275, 704/E11.001, 382/103, 365/189.15, 104/284, 172/3, 172/1
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1755 Brake regulation specially adapted to control the stability of the vehicle, e.g. taking into account yaw rate or transverse acceleration in a curve road vehicle drive control systems for control of driving stability otherwise than by controlling a particular sub-unit B60W30/02
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/00 Purposes of road vehicle drive control systems not related to the control of a particular sub-unit, e.g. of systems using conjoint control of vehicle sub-units
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/085 Changing the parameters of the control units, e.g. changing limit values, working points by control input
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 5/0463 calculating assisting torque from the motor based on driver input
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 6/003 in order to control vehicle yaw movement, i.e. around a vertical axis B62D6/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 6/008 Control of feed-back to the steering input member, e.g. simulating road feel in steer-by-wire applications
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 7/159 characterised by computing methods or stabilisation processes or systems, e.g. responding to yaw rate, lateral wind, load, road condition

Abstract

A method for controlling a motor vehicle wherein the control is carried out with the participation of at least one driver assistance system. In order to simplify and/or differentiate the overriding of a driver assistance system, there is provision that the participation of at least part of the at least one driver assistance system in the control of the motor vehicle is switched off or changed by the driver activating an activation element which is provided in and/or on the motor vehicle and communicates with the at least one driver assistance system. A corresponding device is also described.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a motor vehicle, wherein the control is carried out with the participation of at least one driver assistance system, wherein the participation of at least part of the at least one driver assistance system in the control of the motor vehicle is switched off or changed by the driver activating an activation means which is provided in and/or on the motor vehicle and communicates with the at least one driver assistance system, wherein the activation of the activation means takes the form of a movement of the steering wheel which is different from a steering movement.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein an operator control element is activated as the activation means.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the operator control element is a pedal, a joystick, a wheel, a pushbutton key a switching rocker or a combination thereof.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the activation means is activated, the degree of participation of at least part of the at least one driver assistance system in the control of the motor vehicle is changed.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the participation of at least part of the at least one driver assistance system in the control of the motor vehicle is changed by virtue of the fact that further resources for controlling the motor vehicle are made available to the driver by means of a corresponding display.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the activation of the activation means takes the form of a movement of the steering wheel which is different from a rotational movement of the steering wheel.

6. A device for controlling a motor vehicle which operates with automatic participation of at least one driver assistance system, comprising an activation means provided in and/or on the motor vehicle, which activation means communicates with the at least one driver assistance system wherein the at least one driver assistance system is configured in such a way that, when the activation means is activated by the driver, the participation of at least part of the at least one driver assistance system in the control of the motor vehicle can be switched off or changed, wherein the activation of the activation means takes the form of a movement of the steering wheel which is different from a steering movement.

7. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the activation means is embodied as an operator control element

8. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the operator control element is a pedal, joystick, wheel, pushbutton key, switching rocker or a combination thereof.

9. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the activation means is embodied as a voice recognition system and/or mimic recognition system.

10. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the activation means is embodied as a steering wheel, wherein the activation takes the form of a movement of the steering wheel which is different from the steering movement.

11. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the at least one driver assistance system is configured in such a way that, when the activation element is activated, the degree of participation of at least part of the at least one driver assistance system in the control of the motor vehicle can be changed.

12. The device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the at least one driver assistance system is configured in such a way that the participation of at least part of the at least one driver assistance system in the control of the motor vehicle can be changed by virtue of the fact that further resources for controlling the motor vehicle are made available to the driver by means of a corresponding display which is output by a display device.