US 12,491,904 B2
Vehicle guidance system and method for operating a driving function in different modes
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. 18/031,180
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077593
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 11, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/078855, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 126 670.7 (DE), filed on Oct. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0382420 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/182 (2020.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 60/001 (2020.02) [B60W 30/18154 (2013.01); B60W 30/18159 (2020.02); B60W 30/182 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/0057 (2020.02); B60W 60/0059 (2020.02); B60W 2050/007 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0083 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02); B60W 2556/20 (2020.02); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02)] 16 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 comprising a processor that is configured to:
determine data relating to a first signaling unit that is located ahead in a direction of travel of the vehicle; and
operate the driving function in an automatic mode or in a manual mode at the first signaling unit on the basis of the data relating to the first signaling unit;
wherein the first signaling unit is taken into consideration automatically in the automatic mode and only after confirmation by a user of the vehicle in the manual mode during the automated longitudinal guidance of the vehicle;
wherein the processor of the vehicle guidance system is further configured to determine, as data relating to the first signaling unit,
(i) map data relating to signaling units in a road network used by the vehicle; and/or
(ii) environmental data relating to the first signaling unit which have been captured by one or more environmental sensors of the vehicle; and
wherein the processor of the vehicle guidance system is further configured to:
determine a decision time and/or a decision position before reaching the first signaling unit, at which an offer relating to the consideration of the first signaling unit should be output to the user of the vehicle at the latest;
determine whether there is a contradiction between the map data and the environmental data relating to a property of the first signaling unit at the decision time or at the decision position; and
operate the driving function in the automatic mode or in the manual mode at the first signaling unit on the basis of whether it is determined that there is or is not a contradiction between the map data and the environmental data at the decision time or at the decision position.