US 11,718,300 B2
Method and control unit for a system for controlling a motor vehicle
Christian Wissing, Wesel (DE); Manuel Schmidt, Dortmund (DE); Andreas Homann, Dortmund (DE); Christian Lienke, Dortmund (DE); Torsten Bertram, Düsseldorf (DE); Carlo Manna, Genk (BE); and Karl-Heinz Glander, Monheim (DE)
Assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH, Alfdorf (DE)
Filed by ZF Automotive Germany GmbH, Alfdorf (DE)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/797,083.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 107 973.3 (DE), filed on Feb. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0269843 A1, Aug. 27, 2020
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/18163 (2013.01) [B60W 50/0098 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0052 (2013.01); B60W 2552/10 (2020.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling a motor vehicle (10) traveling on a roadway (12) in a current lane (14), wherein the roadway (12) has at least one additional lane (16) that is adjacent to the current lane (14) of the motor vehicle (10), having the following steps:
generating and/or receiving multiple different driving maneuvers each joining common points (A, B) together;
determining at least two driving maneuver classes that are defined based on at least one characteristic variable of the driving maneuvers, wherein the driving maneuvers of various driving maneuver classes differ by at least one characteristic variable;
classifying the driving maneuvers joining the common points (A, B) together in one of the at least two driving maneuver classes, wherein a homotopy analysis of the multiple driving maneuvers is carried out in order to assign the multiple driving maneuvers to a driving maneuver class and/or to determine a driving maneuver parameter of the at least one characteristic variable, wherein the driving maneuvers that can be transformed into one another without crossing an obstacle are classified in the same driving maneuver class;
selecting one of the possible driving maneuvers based on the classification; and
controlling the motor vehicle (10) according to the selected driving maneuver.