IP Library Granted Patent US 11,780,501
Granted Patent B2
US 11,780,501 · App. 17/195,709 · Granted Oct 10, 2023

Transverse steering method and transverse steering device for moving a vehicle into a target position, and vehicle for this purpose

Inventor: Oliver Wulf (Neustadt, DE)
Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
B62D15/025B62D6/002
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Patent No.
US 11,780,501
App. No.
17/195,709
Granted
Oct 10, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A transverse steering method for moving a vehicle including active steering to a target position includes: performing distance and/or angle measurements between the vehicle and the target position enabling the derivation of location and orientation data; deriving the location and orientation data; filtering the location and orientation data into current values, which include current location values and current orientation values; performing control which derives a target steering angle from the current values; and realization of the target steering angle by acting on the active steering of the vehicle.

Claims (19)

1. A transverse steering method for moving a vehicle comprising active steering to a target position, including:

performing distance and/or angle measurements between the vehicle and the target position enabling the derivation of location and orientation data,

deriving the location and orientation data,

filtering the location and orientation data into current values, which include current location values and current orientation values,

performing control which derives a target steering angle from the current values, and

realization of the target steering angle by acting on the active steering of the vehicle,

wherein:

the control includes a cascade control, with which a target orientation is derived from the current location values in an outer control circuit, and the target steering angle is derived from the target orientation and the current orientation value in an inner control circuit, and

the target orientation is derived proportionally to the difference from a target offset minus a current lateral offset derived from the current location values, and the target steering angle is derived proportionally to the difference from the target orientation minus the current orientation value.

2. The transverse steering method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the filtering of the location and orientation data includes Kalman filtering with which the location and orientation data are processed into the current values taking into account driving characteristics measured on the vehicle, quality values and a motion model of the vehicle.

3. A transverse steering device for moving a vehicle comprising active steering into a target position, comprising:

sensors and markings which are provided and distributed to the vehicle and the target position such that location and orientation data can be derived from distance and/or angle measurements between the vehicle and the target position,

a measuring device which is set up to carry out the distance and/or angle measurements between the vehicle and the target position using the sensors and the markings and derives location and orientation data of the vehicle from this,

a measured value filter which is set up to derive current values, which include current location values and current orientation values, from the location and orientation data, and

a controller, which is set up such that target steering angles are derived from the current values and are realized by acting on the active steering, wherein:

the controller in the form of a cascade controller with a lateral offset controller is set up to derive a target orientation from the current location values and an orientation controller is set up to derive the target steering angle from the target orientation and the current orientation value, and

the lateral offset controller is set up to derive the target orientation proportionally to the difference from a target offset minus a current lateral offset derived from the current location values, and the orientation controller is set up to derive the target steering angle proportionally to the difference from the target orientation minus the current orientation value.

4. The transverse steering device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the measured value filter is in the form of a Kalman filter, which is set up in such a way that the location and orientation data are processed into the current values taking into account driving characteristics measured on the vehicle, quality values and a motion model of the vehicle.

5. A vehicle, in particular a driven towing vehicle, with active steering, wherein it is set up to perform a transverse steering method as claimed in claim 1 .

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2021
From: ZF CV SYSTEMS HANNOVER GMBH
To: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
Reel/Frame 056991/0181 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 19, 2021
From: WABCO GMBH
To: ZF CV SYSTEMS HANNOVER GMBH
Reel/Frame 056900/0102 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2021
From: WULF, OLIVER
To: WABCO GMBH
Reel/Frame 056596/0979 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2018 122 055.3 · Sep 10, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2019071662 · Aug 13, 2019
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