Translation of "Collision mitigation" in German

Mitsubishi Forward Collision Mitigation (FCM) is a radar-based autonomous emergency braking system.

Due to a lack of comprehensive research results and scientific proof, they are not intended to apply to systems that are voice controlled or to systems providing vehicle braking stabilisation (such as ABS and ESP), or to system functionality providing information, warnings or support requiring immediate driver action (e.g. Collision Mitigation Systems, Night vision), sometimes referred to as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

Due to a lack of comprehensive research results and scientific proof, they are not intended to apply to systems that are voice controlled or to systems providing vehicle braking stabilization (such as ABS and ESP) or to system functionality providing information, warnings or support that requires immediate driver action (e.g. Collision Mitigation Systems, Night vision) sometimes referred to as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

Due to a lack of comprehensive research results and scientific proof, they are not intended to apply to systems that are voice controlled or to systems providing vehicle braking stabilisation (such as ABS and ESP), or to system functionality providing information, warnings or support requiring immediate driver action (e.g. collision mitigation systems, night vision), sometimes referred to as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

Curve 22 represents the variation over time of the activity of the system for automatically building up braking power (secondary collision mitigation (SCM)).

Follow-up inventions to ABS and ESC include rollover mitigation (ROM), trailer sway mitigation (TSM) and the secondary collision mitigation (SCM) system that automatically applies brakes to all four wheels once a vehicle has been involved in a collision.

As a result, accidents, in particular rear end accidents, should either be entirely prevented or their consequences mitigated (CMS Collision Mitigation System).

Other causes for the sending of the warning or the locating information may be automatic braking actions on the basis of what are known as collision mitigation systems or automatic emergency braking systems or braking assistants.

Active and passive safety systems, which are designed in particular for collision avoidance and/or collision mitigation, are already known in the prior art.

It was proposed in this context in the later published German patent application DE 10 2011 115 223.0, to provide in a method for operating a safety system of a motor vehicle, in particular a system for collision mitigation in an unavoidable collision, that in an unavoidable collision, the safety system determines a collision target trajectory of the motor vehicle to be realized after the collision and having a definite target position with respect to consequential collisions, and carries out at least one autonomous and/or assistive driving intervention in the form of at least one longitudinal guidance intervention and/or lateral guidance intervention for realizing the target trajectory, in order to increase the safety with respect to subsequent collisions after a first collision.

Further reasons for sending the warning may be automatic braking operations on account of collision mitigation systems or automatic emergency braking systems or braking assistants.

However, at greater relative velocities, the severity of the collision may be reduced by an active full braking due to the reduction of impact energy (collision mitigation).

Driver assistance systems which support the driver of a motor vehicle in driving the vehicle and/or warn him/her of dangerous situations, for example, an imminent collision, or automatically initiate measures for avoiding the collision or for mitigating the consequences of the collision are often based on a position finding system, in particular a radar or lidar system, using which objects in the surroundings of the vehicle, in particular other vehicles, may be located.

Another application example for radar sensors in motor vehicles is a predictive safety system (PSS), which detects a looming collision as early as possible and automatically initiates measures by which the collision is averted, if possible, or by which the consequences of the collision are mitigated to the greatest extent possible.

If no drivable trajectory can be determined, even after adaptation of the boundary conditions, an emergency trajectory can be calculated in a third operating mode of the driver assistance system 2 to prevent collisions or to mitigate collision damage.

To utilize the advantages of the quicker and more precise control of the motor vehicle with an autonomous driving mode to improve safety, it is well known to use systems that detect threatening collisions with other vehicles and attempt to prevent said collisions or to mitigate the effects of the collisions.

Active safety systems, which are configured for avoiding collisions or for mitigating the consequences of a collision, are known in the state of the art.

Examples of driver assistance systems in which the present invention is used are, for example, so-called ACC systems (adaptive cruise control), which allow an automatic regulation of the distance to a preceding vehicle (the object), as well as predictive safety systems (PSS), which are used for automatically recognizing an imminent collision, so that measures for avoiding the collision or for mitigating the collision consequences may be initiated.