US 11,669,095 B2
Method for the driverless operation of a vehicle
Bernd Woltermann, Fellbach (DE); Fabian Andreas Rainer Ventzke, Stuttgart (DE); Clemens Severin Tiedeken, Stuttgart (DE); Pascal Dauer, Stuttgart (DE); Frieder Sönning, Stuttgart (DE); and Louisa Koch, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/273,097
Filed by DAIMLER AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/070435
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/048684, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 006 949.5 (DE), filed on Sep. 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0318684 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/02 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0214 (2013.01) [B60W 50/0097 (2013.01); G01C 21/3691 (2013.01); B60W 2552/50 (2020.02); B60W 2554/402 (2020.02); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for driverless operation of a vehicle, the method comprising:
operating the vehicle using the driverless operation;
determining that a blockade situation occurs;
conducting a situational analysis of the vehicle, wherein the situational analysis involves classifying one or more obstacles causing the blockage situation;
predicting, responsive to the determination that the blockade situation occurs, a probable blockade time duration of the blockade situation based on the situational analysis of the vehicle;
determining, by the vehicle, whether to request support by a teleoperator based on whether the predicted blockade time duration of the blockade situation is greater than a predetermined time duration or when the vehicle has waited longer than the predicted blockade time duration for a resolution of the blockade situation, wherein the predetermined time duration is a time duration which the vehicle would additionally require in order to bypass a route portion blocked by the blockade situation; and
requesting, by the vehicle, support by the teleoperator when the predicted blockade time duration of the blockade situation is greater than the predetermined time duration or when the vehicle has waited longer than the predicted blockade time duration for the resolution of the blockade situation.