Device for testing a safety and/or driver assistance system

• US 9,046,440 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2011
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Sthlin, Ulrich, Swoboda, Adam, Keil, Anselm, Yin, Xiuxun, Schrbler, Sighard
• Primary Examiner(s): Badii, Behrang
• Assistant Examiner(s): GREENE, DANIEL LAWSON
• Application Number:
  US13/812,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20130144484A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,413 Days
• Field of Search: 701/32.8, 701/29.8
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/007 Wheeled or endless-tracked vehicles G01M17/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

A dummy device for testing a driver assistance system of a vehicle traveling on a roadway. The dummy device travels above the roadway, and includes a transceiver and a processor to test the driver assistance system of the vehicle by simulating a driver assistance system of another vehicle.

Claims

1. A dummy device for testing a safety and/or driver assistance system of a first vehicle traveling on a roadway section including:

a transceiver for communicating with the first vehicle; and

a processor for simulating a driver assistance system of a second vehicle traveling in a different direction than the first vehicle;

wherein the dummy device travels above the roadway and is configured to test the driver assistance system of the first vehicle by simulating the driver assistance system of the second vehicle, the simulating of the driver assistance system of the second vehicle including simulating vehicle data related to the operation of the second vehicle and transmitting the simulated vehicle data to the first vehicle through the transceiver.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dummy device is attached to a helicopter, or to an aircraft, or to a floating platform.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transceiver of the dummy device can protrude into a movement space of the first vehicle, and wherein the transceiver of the dummy device is embodied in a physically flexible manner.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dummy device can be remotely controlled.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dummy device is embodied in such a manner that at least one sensor and/or at least one driver assistance system and/or at least one safety system of the second vehicle that is represented by the dummy device are simulated.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dummy device comprises at least one dummy and/or at least one reflector, that render it possible to recognize the dummy device by at least one environment sensor of the first vehicle.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined roadway section is an intersection.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dummy device is embodied as a slide that moves above, below and/or to the side of the movement space of the first vehicle.

9. The device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the slide moves on rails or on at least one cable.