US 12,447,964 B2
Vehicle guidance system and method for operating a driving function following a driving-off process
Bartono Adiprasito, Tiefenbach (DE); Helena Dolinaj, Munich (DE); Maximilian Guenther, Munich (DE); Frank Herchet, Neufahrn b. Freising (DE); Martin Jaensch, Munich (DE); Markus Kraemer, Dachau (DE); Julius Schulz, Munich (DE); and Muhammed Yildiz, Kirchseeon (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/031,194
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077590
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 11, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/078852, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 126 675.8 (DE), filed on Oct. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0382384 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 40/105 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/18027 (2013.01) [B60W 30/146 (2013.01); B60W 30/18154 (2013.01); B60W 30/18159 (2020.02); B60W 40/105 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle system for providing a driving function for automated longitudinal guidance of a vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle guidance system configured to:
determine that the vehicle carries out a start-up process at a first signaling unit;
detect, on the basis of environmental data from one or more environmental sensors of the vehicle, a second signaling unit which follows the first signaling unit and is arranged in front of the vehicle in a direction of travel on a road used by the vehicle;
determine whether the second signaling unit is available for inclusion in the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle;
check whether or not one or more start-up process conditions with respect to the start-up process have been met; and
take the second signaling unit into consideration during the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle on the basis of whether or not the second signaling unit is available for inclusion in the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle and whether or not the one or more start-up process conditions have been met;
wherein, in an automatic mode of the driving function, the vehicle guidance system is configured to cause the second signaling unit to be taken into consideration automatically, without a further user interaction, during the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle at the second signaling unit on the basis of whether or not the one or more start-up process conditions have been met; and
wherein the one or more start-up process conditions depend on:
(i) a driving distance covered by the vehicle during the start-up process at the first signaling unit;
(ii) a period of time that has elapsed since a beginning of the start-up process at the first signaling unit; and
(iii) a driving speed reached by the vehicle during the start-up process at the first signaling unit.