US 12,012,144 B2
Method and control unit for transversely guiding a vehicle during following travel
Volker Nieten, Emmering (DE); Hagen Stuebing, Munich (DE); and Benedikt Weiser, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/288,160
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/078806
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/083964, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 126 832.7 (DE), filed on Oct. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0354755 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 30/165 (2020.01); B60W 30/12 (2020.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 15/025 (2013.01) [B60W 30/12 (2013.01); B60W 30/165 (2013.01); B60W 2540/18 (2013.01); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02); B60W 2710/202 (2013.01); B60W 2710/207 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control unit for a first vehicle, which includes a transverse guidance actuator configured for carrying out transverse guidance of the first vehicle in an at least semi-automated manner during following travel, in which the first vehicle is controlled by the control unit to follow a preceding vehicle, wherein the control unit is operatively configured to:
detect a transverse guidance maneuver of the first vehicle necessary for the first vehicle to continue the following travel;
ascertain driver information with respect to a driver of the first vehicle, wherein the driver information includes at least one indication of how engaged the driver is with monitoring and/or carrying out the transverse guidance of the first vehicle; and
adjust dynamics of an intervention, which is carried out in an automated manner by the transverse guidance actuator of the first vehicle, for the transverse guidance maneuver as a function of the ascertained driver information.