WO2004079391A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur ansteuerung mindestens einer verzögerungseinrichtung und/oder eines leistungsbestimmenden stellelementes einer fahrzeugantriebseinrichtung - Google Patents
Verfahren und vorrichtung zur ansteuerung mindestens einer verzögerungseinrichtung und/oder eines leistungsbestimmenden stellelementes einer fahrzeugantriebseinrichtung Download PDFInfo
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- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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- the present invention relates to a device and a method for controlling at least one deceleration device and / or a power-determining control element of a vehicle drive device, in particular in the sense of an automatic longitudinal vehicle control, wherein a first environment detection device is provided that provides longitudinal value-optimized measurement values, a second environment detection device is provided that optimizes object lateral expansion Provides measured values and an evaluation device is provided to which the output signals of the first and the second environment detection device are fed and both the measured values of the first and the second environment detection device are used for object identification. Furthermore, the device and the method are suitable for triggering or carrying out a vehicle deceleration in order to avoid a collision or to reduce the severity of the collision.
- a motor vehicle radar sensor which detects objects in the course area of a vehicle and controls the vehicle deceleration devices or the vehicle acceleration devices depending on the detected objects. If the radar sensor detects no object or only objects that are not considered vehicles driving ahead are identified, the vehicle speed is regulated in the sense of a constant speed control. However, if the radar sensor detects objects that can be identified as preceding vehicles, the vehicle speed is regulated in the sense of a constant distance control.
- a three-beam microwave transmitter and receiver is used, which emits a frequency-modulated continuous wave signal and receives reflected partial waves.
- an object detection system which is provided in particular for motor vehicles, in which the object detection system has several object detectors and / or operating modes with which different detection ranges and / or detection ranges are detected.
- an object detector a radar sensor
- This system uses different environment detection devices, with each environment detection system covering a different detection area.
- Pages 307 to 392 described methods for processing moving images, in particular methods for determining and processing the "optical flow”.
- the essence of the present invention is to provide a device and a method with which the deceleration devices and / or power-determining control elements of vehicle drive devices can be controlled, in particular in the sense of an automatic longitudinal vehicle control, the vehicle surroundings being detected by environment detection devices in such a way that the environment detection devices are mutually exclusive complete and result in a redundant overall system. According to the invention, this is solved by the features of the independent claims. Advantageous further developments and refinements result from the subclaims.
- the system according to the invention advantageously provides that the measured values of the second environment detection device are used to verify and / or provide additional information when evaluating the measurement values of the first environment detection device.
- the measured values of the objects that were recognized by the first environment detection device can be verifiable by means of the measured values provided by the second environment detection device and, if necessary, to assign additional information, such as the lateral object extension, to the objects that were recognized by the first environment detection device can be. It is also possible that the measured values of the objects that were recognized by the second environment detection device can be verified by means of the measurement values provided by the first environment detection device and, if necessary, the objects that were recognized by the second environment detection device, additional information such as the exact object distance or the azimuth angle of the object can be assigned.
- the measured values of the first environment detection device are used to verify and / or provide additional information when evaluating the measurement values of the second environment detection device. This makes it possible for the measured values of the objects that were recognized by the second environment detection device to be verifiable by means of the measured values provided by the first environment detection device and, if necessary, to assign additional information, such as the exact object distance, to the objects that were recognized by the second environment detection device can be.
- Environment detection device can be used to reduce the effort for signal processing in the second environment detection device, in particular by limiting the evaluation to certain areas of the detection area of the second environment detection device.
- the system for vehicle longitudinal control advantageously sees a triggering and / or implementation of an automatic vehicle deceleration in order to avoid collisions and / or reduce the severity of the collision.
- the automatic vehicle deceleration is triggered and / or carried out as a function of the objects detected by the environment detection devices in the detection area of the environment detection devices.
- the first environment detection device is a device for transmitting and receiving radar radiation.
- Devices for transmitting and receiving radar radiation offer the advantage that the functionality is independent of weather and weather influences, and that the distances and relative speeds of the detected objects can be determined very precisely.
- the first environment detection device is a device for transmitting and receiving lidar radiation.
- Lidar systems emit coherent, monochromatic light and receive the reflected partial waves. Using lidar systems, it is possible to determine the distance and the relative speed of recognized objects very precisely. If the lidar system is designed as a scanning lidar system, it is also possible to determine the lateral dimension of the object.
- the second environment detection device is advantageously designed as an image detection system.
- This image acquisition system can advantageously be designed as a monocular video camera 3 or as a stereo video camera.
- the provision of a monocular video camera enables the device according to the invention to be implemented inexpensively.
- the provision of a stereo video camera enables a reliable, three-dimensional evaluation of the recorded stereo image pairs.
- control element which is provided for a control device of an adaptive distance or speed control of a motor vehicle.
- a program is stored on the control element, which is executable on a computing device, in particular on a microprocessor or signal processor, and is suitable for executing the method according to the invention.
- the invention is thus implemented by a program stored on the control element, so that this control element provided with the program represents the invention in the same way as the method, for the execution of which the program is suitable.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of the device according to the invention.
- the figure shows a processing device 1 which receives input signals. These input signals are fed to the processing device 1 by means of an input circuit 2 and processed further.
- the input signals come from a first environment detection device 3, a second environment detection device 4 and further, optionally provided input variable devices 5.
- These optional input variable devices 5 are, for example, driver-operated operating elements for controlling the processing device 1, for example in the form of switches, buttons, an accelerator pedal switch or accelerator pedal potentiometer or a brake pedal switch or brake pedal potentiometer, or the input variable devices 5 can be sensors, for example speed sensors or acceleration sensors, which forward determined measured variables to the processing device 1.
- the first environment detection device 3 is an environment detection device that provides measured values optimized for longitudinal values.
- longitudinal value-optimized measured values mean measured values that originate from an environment detection device, the distances or Can determine relative speeds to detected objects very precisely, but which only insufficiently or not at all make it possible to determine the lateral extent of the object.
- the environment detection device which provides measured values optimized for longitudinal values, means, for example, a transmitting and receiving device for radar waves, with which the distances between the transmitting and receiving device, i.e. the spatial extension in the direction of the direction of propagation of the waves, can be determined very precisely.
- a transmitting and receiving device for lidar radiation which also provides measured values optimized for longitudinal values.
- measurement values are transmitted from a second environment detection device 4 to the processing device 1.
- this second environment detection device 4 is a device that provides measured values that are optimized for the lateral extent of the object.
- An environment detection device that provides object-lateral expansion-optimized means a device that is able to precisely determine the spatial extent of the detected objects perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the measuring waves used.
- the use of an image acquisition system is provided as the second environment detection device 4, which provides measurement values that are optimized in terms of the lateral extent of the object, and is optionally designed as a monocular video camera or as a stereo video camera.
- Such image acquisition systems are able to determine the spatial extent of the detected objects perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the measuring waves, but these systems have the disadvantage that distances, i.e.
- the input variables which are fed to the processing device 1 by means of the input circuit 2, are fed to a calculation device 7 by means of a data exchange device 6, which is designed, for example, as a bus system.
- the measurement values provided by the first and second environment detection devices 3, 4 are evaluated in the calculation device 7.
- the objects recognized by the first environment detection device 3 are overlaid with the objects recognized by the second environment detection device 4, and thus the objects recognized by the two environment detection devices 3, 4 are precisely recorded in terms of distance, relative speed and object lateral extent.
- the second environment detection device 4 which can be designed, for example, as an inexpensive, monocular video camera, one can use optical flow algorithms that are known from the prior art and the known distance and speed information provided by the first environment detection device 3, receive exact values for the object extent. It is important to know the lateral object extension of safety-relevant objects in the course of the vehicle for the correct consideration of all the avoidance options available to the driver when triggering an automatic emergency braking as well as for automatically triggered and automatically performed avoidance maneuvers of the vehicle equipped with the system according to the invention.
- the first and second environment detection devices 3, 4 should be selected so that the second environment detection device 4 is able to deliver precise values for the object data which the first environment detection device 3 cannot deliver due to the system or can only deliver very imprecisely.
- the first environment detection device 3 must be able to deliver the object data precisely and reliably, which the second environment detection device 4 cannot deliver due to the system or can only deliver very imprecisely.
- the provision of a radar device as the first environment detection device 3 and an inexpensive, monocular image detection system as the second environment detection device 4 is a preferred embodiment, since the radar system and monocular video camera ideally complement one another with regard to the accuracy of the object data that can be supplied by the system.
- the measured values of the longitudinal value-optimized environment detection device are processed in a first evaluation device
- the measured values of the lateral expansion-optimized environment detection device are processed in a second evaluation device.
- the measured values of the second, ie the lateral extent-optimized environment detection device can additionally be passed on to the evaluation device provided for the longitudinal value-optimized evaluation.
- the longitudinal value-optimized measurement values can be verified and / or further object-specific information can be assigned to the recognized objects.
- the objects detected by means of a radar system can additionally be assigned a value with regard to the lateral dimension of the object, which is not possible or only very inaccurately with a pure radar system, or the signal processing of the radar system kami by restricting the evaluation range to areas in which a video system detects objects has to be simplified.
- the evaluation device for the lateral expansion-optimized measurement values can also have measurement values of the longitudinal value-optimized ones
- the Environment detection device is supplied. This also makes it possible to verify the measurement values optimized for lateral expansion and to provide further information.
- the scaling factor of the image acquisition system optimized for lateral expansion for example, can be determined very well or, if the direction and distance at which the radar system has detected an object, the image processing can be carried out on specific image areas of the vodeo detection area can be restricted in order to save processing time.
- the two evaluation devices for longitudinal value-optimized and lateral expansion-optimized measured values are implemented in a single evaluation device, in which the lateral expansion-optimized measurement values are additionally fed to the evaluation algorithm for processing the longitudinal value-optimized measurement values and the longitudinal value-optimized measurement values are fed to the algorithm for processing the lateral expansion-optimized measurement values, for example by one Verification of measured values or provision of additional information that cannot be provided due to the system.
- actuating signals for deceleration devices and acceleration devices of the vehicle are formed in the calculation device 7, which are fed to an output circuit 8 via the data exchange system 6.
- the output circuit 8 outputs control signals to the deceleration devices 9 of the vehicle which, for example, provide electronically controlled brake controls and which can decelerate the vehicle depending on the objects detected.
- a control signal is fed via the output circuit 8 to a power-determining control element of a drive device 10, which can be an electrically controlled throttle valve, for example, or an electrically controlled fuel metering device for an injection system.
- the calculation device 7 delivers output signals which controls an electrically controlled steering system via the data exchange system 6 and the output circuit 8 and can steer the vehicle as a function of detected objects relevant to driving safety and can perform an evasive maneuver in the event of an impending collision with an object in front ,
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