US 11,938,880 B2
Low impact crash detection for a vehicle
Robert Jones, Detroit, MI (US); Michael Vincent Masserant, Farmington Hills, MI (US); Rameez Ahmad, Canton, MI (US); Ulrich Christian Michelfeit, Novi, MI (US); and Dean Eiger, Plymouth, MI (US)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/287,085
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 31, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/079863
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 20, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/089410, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/808,149, filed on Feb. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/754,299, filed on Nov. 1, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0380059 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. H04N 5/44 (2011.01); B60R 21/0136 (2006.01); B60W 30/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06N 3/02 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 21/0136 (2013.01) [B60W 30/08 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/00186 (2020.02); G06N 3/02 (2013.01); B60W 2030/082 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0057 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2420/54 (2013.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for detecting low impact collisions for a vehicle, the system comprising:
at least one sensor, and
an electronic controller configured to
receive sensor data from the sensor,
perform a plausibility step on the sensor data received from the at least one sensor to filter out unwanted data that could be misinterpreted as a low-impact collision to create filtered sensor data,
determine one or more features of the filtered sensor data,
determine if a collision has occurred based upon the one or more features of the filtered sensor data, and
take at least one action in response to determining that the collision has occurred.