US 11,840,263 B1
Method for controlling an automated driving operation of a vehicle
Micha Koller, Pliezhausen (DE); Hubert Rehborn, Sindelfingen (DE); and Frank Starman, Boeblingen (DE)
Assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 18/265,486
Filed by MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 13, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/078309
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 6, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/122225, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 16, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 007 437.5 (DE), filed on Dec. 7, 2020.
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 60/0053 (2020.02) [B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 50/082 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2552/10 (2020.02); B60W 2554/406 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling an automated driving operation of a vehicle, wherein the automated driving operation is authorized according to a number of predetermined conditions, the method comprising:
receiving, by the vehicle, traffic information and event information, wherein the traffic information contains place- and time-referenced information about a traffic jam on a part of a route lying ahead of the vehicle and the event information contains place- and time-referenced information about an event on the part of the route lying ahead; and
evaluating, by the vehicle, the traffic information and the event information as belonging together if the traffic information and event information are close together in terms of place and time,
wherein the automated driving operation of the vehicle is not authorized if event information and traffic information are available for a predetermined prediction horizon, but only when the event information and traffic information are evaluated as not belonging together.