METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING THE RISK OF A COLLISION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WITH AN OBJECT

• Main Author: NORDBRUCH, Stefan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.07.2024
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A method for reducing a risk of a collision of a motor vehicle with an object, including specifying a safety area, which defines a delimited subarea of a current motor vehicle surroundings of a motor vehicle driving within a parking facility, ascertaining a location within a parking facility, which is classified as critical, adapting the specified safety area while the motor vehicle is driving toward the critical location in such a way that the critical location lies within the adapted safety area, monitoring the adapted safety area while the motor vehicle is driving toward the critical location for an object moving into the adapted safety area and/or for an object located within the adapted safety area, and controlling a performance of one or multiple safety actions based on the monitoring in order to reduce a risk of a collision of the motor vehicle with the object.