US 12,109,995 B2
Method and device for carrying out a distance or speed-regulating function for a single-track motor vehicle
Mathieu Grelaud, Ludwigsburg (DE); and Michael Schoenherr, Renningen-Malmsheim (DE)
Assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/637,528
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/072508
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/063576, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 215 101.9 (DE), filed on Oct. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0281426 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B60T 8/17 (2006.01); B60T 7/22 (2006.01); B60W 30/16 (2020.01); B62L 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60T 8/1706 (2013.01) [B60T 7/22 (2013.01); B60W 30/16 (2013.01); B62L 3/00 (2013.01); B60T 2201/022 (2013.01); B60W 2300/36 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01); B60W 2420/54 (2013.01); B60W 2540/12 (2013.01); B60W 2710/18 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for a single-track motor vehicle, the method comprising:
continually performing, by the single-track motor vehicle, surroundings monitoring in which the single-track motor vehicle:
obtains output from one or more environmental sensors; and
determines, based on the output, whether or not the single-track motor vehicle is in a danger state in which the single-track motor vehicle is characterized as being in danger of collision;
in response to a first manual actuation, by a driver of the single-track motor vehicle, of a mechanical interface to a wheel brake of the single-track motor vehicle while a distance-regulating or speed-regulating function of the single-track motor vehicle is active:
comparing, in a first comparison, an intensity of the first manual actuation to each of a first intensity threshold and a second intensity threshold, the second intensity threshold being higher than the first intensity threshold; and
in response to satisfaction of a first predefined programmed condition, of executed program code, that (a) a result of the first comparison is that the intensity of the first manual actuation is above the first intensity threshold and below the second intensity threshold, and (b) a result of the determination of the surroundings monitoring is that the single-track motor vehicle is in the danger state at a time when the first manual actuation occurs:
temporarily interrupting the distance-regulating or speed-regulating function to execute an automatic emergency braking of the wheel brake; and
upon completing the automatic emergency braking of the wheel brake, automatically resuming the temporarily interrupted distance-regulating or speed-regulating function according to settings of the distance-regulating or speed-regulating function that were active when the interrupting was performed without a new activation of the distance-regulating or speed-regulating function by the driver; and
in response to a second manual actuation, by the driver of the single-track motor vehicle, of the mechanical interface to the wheel brake of the single-track motor vehicle while the resumed distance-regulating or speed-regulating function of the single-track motor vehicle is active:
comparing, in a second comparison, an intensity of the second manual actuation to at least the second intensity threshold; and
in response to satisfaction of a second predefined programmed condition, of the executed program code, that a result of the second comparison is that the intensity of the first manual actuation is above the second intensity threshold, cancelling the active distance-regulating or speed-regulating function, so that resumption of the active distance-regulating or speed-regulating function requires a manual reactivation of the active distance-regulating or speed-regulating function.