Vehicle and method for controlling a vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9102335-B2
Application number	US-201214350906-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 10, 2012
Priority date	Oct 13, 2011
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

A vehicle has at least one movement system which can influence the movement of the vehicle and which can operate in a normal mode or in at least one emergency mode. An availability coordinator is coupled to each movement system. A control system controls an autonomous driving process. The availability coordinator is coupled to the control system and is designed such that said coordinator monitors the availability of each movement system. The availability coordinator specifies whether each movement system is to operate in the normal mode or in one of the emergency modes dependent on at least one of the availabilities; and activates or deactivates the control system dependent on at least one of the availabilities.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle comprising:
a movement system disposed in the vehicle which includes at least one of a drive system, a brake system and a steering system, to influence movement of the vehicle, the movement system being operable in a normal mode and in an emergency mode;
a control system for autonomous driving; and
an availability coordinator, comprising at least one microprocessor, coupled to the control system for autonomous driving and to the movement…

Assignees

• Audi Ag

Inventors

• Mueller Rolf

Classifications

• B60W2050/0295

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60W50/14

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60W10/06

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60W2050/146

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60W10/18

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic