US 11,718,286 B2
Method for controlling a parking process
Frank Edling, Schwalbach (DE); Hendrik Deusch, Wiesbaden (DE); and Sharmila Ghosh, Mainz (DE)
Assigned to CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Appl. No. 16/648,460
Filed by Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 24, 2018, PCT No. PCT/DE2018/200096
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 18, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/080975, PCT Pub. Date May 2, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2017 219 351.4 (DE), filed on Oct. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0231141 A1, Jul. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. B60W 30/06 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/06 (2013.01) [B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 60/0011 (2020.02); B60W 60/0018 (2020.02); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G08G 1/14 (2013.01); B60W 2040/0809 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling a parking process of a vehicle, comprising:
a) identifying a driver;
b) determining driver parameters during at least one manual parking process of the vehicle performed by the identified driver, and associating the driver parameters with the identified driver;
c) determining parking parameters based on the driver parameters by extracting, from the driver parameters, usual parking information that indicates how the identified driver usually performs a usual parking process;
d) successively adjusting the parking parameters depending on a number of previous autonomous parking processes that have been performed by the parking assistance system and are associated with the identified driver, wherein a safety distance from an object in surroundings of the vehicle is reduced and/or a speed of the vehicle is increased during the autonomous parking process after the number of the previous autonomous parking processes associated with the identified driver exceeds a specified value higher than one; and
e) controlling, based on the parking parameters, an autonomous parking process of the vehicle performed by a parking assistance system by modifying the parking assistance system based on the usual parking information so that an autonomous parking behavior of the parking assistance system is adjusted to a driver-specific parking behavior that is dependent on the driver parameters associated with the identified driver,
wherein the determining of the parking parameters includes averaging a plurality of the driver parameters specific to the identified driver which have been determined in at least a minimum number of different manual parking processes of the vehicle performed by the identified driver at different times.