Method for Coordinating an Autonomous Vehicle Fleet, and Vehicle Fleet Coordination System

    公开(公告)号:US20220277246A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-01

    申请号:US17625538

    申请日:2020-07-01

    申请人: Daimler AG

    发明人: Bernd WOLTERMANN

    摘要: A method for coordinating an autonomous vehicle fleet that includes a plurality of autonomous motor vehicles in a predetermined first region by a vehicle fleet coordination system. The method includes coordinating the autonomous vehicle fleet depending on a first regional environment profile of the predetermined first region, where a position in the predetermined first region dependent on the first regional environment profile is autonomously approached by a first autonomous motor vehicle of the plurality of autonomous motor vehicles. The method further includes generating the first regional environment profile on a basis of a second regional environment profile which is stored in an electronic computing device of the vehicle fleet coordination system and which is generated for a second region independent of the predetermined first region.

    METHOD FOR DETERMINING MEASURED VALUES BY MEANS OF AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT MEASURING METHODS AND USE THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20220221278A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17609127

    申请日:2020-04-22

    申请人: DAIMLER AG

    摘要: A method for determining measured values using at least two different measuring methods involves, with each of the measuring methods, determining provisional measured values and suppling data for an integrity of the determined provisional measured values. The determined provisional measured values are merged to give combined measured values and information on the integrity of the combined measured values is determined. Depending on the data concerning the integrity of the determined provisional measured values and the combined measured values and depending on a period of time during which the determined provisional measured values and the combined measured values in each case meet specified requirements regarding their integrity, it is decided which of the measured values are supplied for further processing.

    Table Device for a Vehicle
    34.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220212585A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-07

    申请号:US17608034

    申请日:2020-03-13

    申请人: Daimler AG

    IPC分类号: B60N3/00

    摘要: A table device for an interior of a vehicle includes a table element that is positionable from a non-use position into a use position. The table element, secured to a pivot arm in the non-use position, forms a trim element of a center console of the vehicle. The pivot arm is secured to a frame element and the frame element is guided by a guide element through a predefined movement path. The frame element is liftable by a first drive unit through the predefined movement path such that the table element pivots out in part, through a predefined angle, from a housing formed by the center console. The table element is liftable by a second drive unit into the use position.

    METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT AN AUTOMATED OR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING OPERATION OF A VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20220204034A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-30

    申请号:US17610808

    申请日:2020-04-28

    申请人: DAIMLER AG

    发明人: Fridtjof STEIN

    摘要: A method for carrying out an automated or autonomous driving operation of a vehicle on a route involves generating a target trajectory and guiding the vehicle a function of the generated target trajectory. The target trajectory is generated as a function of the detected uneven surface when an uneven surface is detected on the route. When detecting an uneven surface running across the route transversely to the route and designed as a transverse uneven surface, in particular as a speed bump, the target trajectory is generated in such a way that the transverse uneven surface is driven over with a time delay for wheels of each individual axle of the vehicle.

    METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INFLUENCING AN OPTICAL OUTPUT OF IMAGE DATA ON AN OUTPUT DEVICE IN A VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20220198971A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17600656

    申请日:2020-03-16

    申请人: DAIMLER AG

    摘要: A method and a system for influencing an optical output of image data on an output device in a vehicle. A viewing direction of a driver of the vehicle is determined. If the determined viewing direction is directed to the output device, the optical output of the image data is faded down with an average fading out rate DOWN. The fading out rate DOWN defines a temporal decrease in the optical perceptibility of the output image data by a human. If the determined viewing direction is directed towards the output device and is directed away from the output device, the optical output of the image data is faded up with an average fading in rate UP. The fading in rate UP defines a temporal increase of the optical perceptibility of the output image data by a human.

    METHOD FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE CONFIGURED FOR AUTOMATED, IN PARTICULAR HIGHLY AUTOMATED OR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

    公开(公告)号:US20220194425A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17610804

    申请日:2020-04-28

    申请人: DAIMLER AG

    IPC分类号: B60W60/00 B60W30/16

    摘要: A method for operating a vehicle configured for highly automated or autonomous driving involves adapting control of the driving mode to the weather conditions of a vehicle's environment. Moreover, control of the driving mode is adapted by reference control parameters if the weather conditions deviate from a specified criterion. For generating the reference control parameters, driving behaviors of a plurality of vehicles in the vehicle's environment, adjacent to the vehicle, are determined. From the determined driving behaviors, an average speed, an average distance, an average acceleration, and an average deceleration are determined and are taken into account when generating the reference control parameters.

    VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE
    39.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220194262A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17599333

    申请日:2020-02-04

    申请人: Daimler AG

    IPC分类号: B60L58/22 B60L50/60

    摘要: A vehicle control device includes a voltage information acquisition unit that acquires respective voltage values of a plurality of battery packs, a voltage value comparison unit that compares, when a state of an accelerator pedal of a vehicle is switched from an ON state to an OFF state, a voltage value of an active battery pack that is being used to drive the vehicle with a voltage value of a standby battery pack having a highest voltage value among the battery packs that are not being used to drive the vehicle on a basis of the voltage values acquired by the voltage information acquisition unit, and a selection unit that selects a drive battery pack allowed to perform discharge to drive the vehicle from among the plurality of battery packs on a basis of the comparison by the voltage value comparison unit.

    Valve train for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, and method for operating such a valve train

    公开(公告)号:US11352914B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US17286010

    申请日:2019-10-15

    申请人: Daimler AG

    IPC分类号: F01L1/18 F01L13/06 F01L1/46

    摘要: A valve train of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a rocker arm assigned to a first combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine where via the rocker arm a gas exchange valve assigned to the first combustion chamber is actuatable. An actuating device is assigned to a second combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine where via the actuating device, by supplying the actuating device with a hydraulic fluid, the second combustion chamber is switchable between a firing mode for fired operation and a braking mode for an engine braking operation of the internal combustion engine. A supply of the hydraulic fluid to the actuating device assigned to the second combustion chamber is adjustable by the rocker arm assigned to the first combustion chamber.