公开(公告)号：US20210389760A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-16

申请号：US17281605

申请日：2019-09-27

Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI

Inventor： Luca LIOTTI

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  B60W60/00 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W50/14

Abstract: System to cause a motor vehicle equipped with an automotive automated driving system to perform a Follow-Me low-speed manoeuvre under the control of a user terminal from the outside of the motor vehicle. The motor vehicle comprises automotive on-vehicle systems comprising a propulsion system, a braking system, a steering system, a sensory system; an automotive communications system to communicate with communications systems of user terminals; and an automotive electronic control unit configured to be connectable to the automotive on-vehicle systems and to the communications system, and to cooperate with the automotive on-vehicle systems to implement said automotive automated driving system. The user terminal comprises a digital image capture device and a communications system to communicate with automotive communications systems. The user terminal is programmed to communicate and cooperate with the electronic control unit of the motor vehicle to implement a Follow-Me functionality that allows a user from the outside of the motor vehicle and in possession of the user terminal to cause the motor vehicle to perform a Follow-Me low-speed manoeuvre under the control of the user terminal. The user terminal is further programmed to: set up a communication between the communications systems of the motor vehicle and of the user terminal, activate the digital image capture device so that the user can frame the motor vehicle, capture and process one or more digital images of the motor vehicle captured by the digital image capture device of the user terminal to identify the motor vehicle in the captured digital images and to compute a relative position of the user terminal relative to the identified motor vehicle based on the captured digital images, implement a surveillance device whose operating state is indicative of a continuous surveillance of the user in possession of the user terminal on the execution of the Follow-Me manoeuvre, and send to the electronic control unit of the motor vehicle Follow-Me data indicative of the relative position of the user terminal relative to the identified vehicle and the operating state of the surveillance device. The Electronic Control Unit is Programmed to: receive and process the Follow-Me data transmitted by the user terminal to determine the relative position of the user terminal relative to the motor vehicle and the operating state of the surveillance device, and control the automotive automated driving system the motor vehicle based on the Follow-Me data, so as to cause the motor vehicle to perform a Follow-Me low-speed manoeuvre under the control of the user terminal to follow the movements of the user in possession of the user terminal as long as the operating state of the surveillance device is such as to indicate a continuous surveillance of the user in possession of the user terminal on the execution of the Follow-Me low-speed manoeuvre, and to interrupt the Follow-Me low-speed manoeuvre when the operating state of the surveillance device is such as to indicate an interruption of the surveillance of the user in possession of the user terminal on the execution of the Follow-Me manoeuvre.