Driver Assistance Steering Angle Blocking for Collision Avoidance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing driver assistance systems face high computing effort when dealing with multiple objects in the vehicle's surroundings, leading to inefficient collision avoidance and loss of overall overview, as each object must be considered individually, and limiting the area of consideration can result in missed objects and increased complexity.

Innovation Solution

The system determines blocked steering angle ranges based on the position and spatial dimensions of detected objects, allowing the driver assistance system to operate by identifying steering angles that would result in collisions, and merging overlapping ranges to reduce computational load and improve collision avoidance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If each object is considered individually in driver assistance systems for collision avoidance, then the system can detect and respond to each object separately, but the computing effort becomes very large with a large number of objects

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollision avoidance reliabilityVSAvoidcomputing effort
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple individual object considerations into a unified blocked steering angle range representation. Instead of processing each object separately, the system combines all objects into a single blocked steering angle range that represents all collision-prone steering angles collectively, significantly reducing computing effort while maintaining collision avoidance reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the steering angle space into blocked and non-blocked ranges based on object positions. By dividing the continuous steering angle domain into discrete safe and unsafe zones, the system simplifies the collision avoidance problem from continuous optimization to discrete range identification, reducing computational complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If the area under consideration is limited in the vicinity of the motor vehicle to minimize computing effort, then the computing load is reduced, but not all objects in the area are taken into account and the overall overview is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomputing effortVSAvoidcollision avoidance reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the spatial problem from three-dimensional space consideration to one-dimensional steering angle representation. By projecting all spatial objects onto the steering angle dimension, the system maintains comprehensive object awareness while reducing the problem to a single dimension, eliminating the need to arbitrarily limit the consideration area

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Reliability

If the combination of several objects is performed to find a collision-free path, then a more comprehensive collision avoidance strategy is achieved, but additional calculation steps are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollision avoidance reliabilityVSAvoidcalculation time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple objects into a single blocked steering angle range representation, eliminating the need for separate combination calculations for each object pair. This unified approach achieves comprehensive collision avoidance while minimizing calculation steps by processing all objects simultaneously through a single range determination

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP3251909B1Method for operating a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle with provision of a blocked steering angle range, driver assistance system and motor vehicle
Publication Date: 2023.08.30 VALEO SCHALTER & SENSOREN GMBH
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for operating a driver assistance system (2) of a motor vehicle (1), in which at least one object (8) in an area (7) surrounding the motor vehicle (1) is detected, a position and a spatial dimension (9) are continuously recorded. of the at least one object (8) are determined, and the driver assistance system is operated depending on the position and the spatial dimensions (9) of the at least one object (8), based on the position and the spatial dimensions (9) of the at least one object (8) at least one blocked steering angle range (13) is continuously determined, with steering angles of the motor vehicle (1) in the at least one blocked steering angle range (13) leading to a collision with the at least one object (8), and the driver assistance system (2) in Depending on the at least one blocked steering angle range (13) is operated.