US 11,951,980 B2
Method and apparatus for controlling a safety device of a vehicle, and safety system for a vehicle
Christian Weiss, Leonberg (DE); Gyorgy Csaba, Budapest (HU); Heiko Kirn, Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE); and Nina Braunert, Leonberg-Warmbronn (DE)
Assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/453,436.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 214 030.8 (DE), filed on Nov. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0144262 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/095 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 30/0956 (2013.01) [B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2520/105 (2013.01); B60W 2520/12 (2013.01); B60W 2520/125 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4043 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
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1. A method for controlling a safety device of a vehicle, the safety device being configured to react to an imminent collision of the vehicle with a collision object by way of an intervention in a longitudinal and/or lateral guidance of the vehicle, the method comprising the following steps:
reading in: (i) from an interface to at least one environment sensor of the vehicle, environment data regarding a position of the collision object, and/or a velocity of the collision object, and/or an acceleration of the collision object, in an environment of the vehicle, (ii) from an interface to at least one trip data sensor of the vehicle, trip data regarding a position of the vehicle, and/or a velocity of the vehicle, and/or an acceleration of the vehicle, and (iii) from an interface to the safety device, intervention data regarding a planned intervention of the safety device;
ascertaining: (i) a first expected impingement region of the collision object on the vehicle using the environment data and the trip data, and (ii) a second expected impingement region of the collision object on the vehicle using the environment data, the trip data, and the intervention data;
executing an evaluation of a location of the first expected impingement region and of a location of the second expected impingement region relative to subregions referred to the vehicle, using reference data that define, for each subregion of the subregions, an evaluation factor that depends on an effect of the location of an expected impingement region in the subregion on a safety status of at least one occupant of the vehicle; and
generating, depending on a result of the evaluation, a control signal for output to an interface to the safety device, the control signal having at least one control parameter for controlling the safety device.