A lane-keeping system (10) for an automated vehicle includes a lane-detector (24), an object-detector (28), and a controller (30). The lane-detector (24) indicates which lane of a roadway (26) is occupied by a host-vehicle (12). The object-detector (28) detects objects (20) proximate to the host-vehicle (12). The controller (30) is in communication with the lane-detector (24) and the object-detector (28). The controller (30) is configured to operate the host-vehicle (12) to follow a first-lane using the lane-detector (24) when no object is detected by the object-detector (28) in the first-lane that warrants a lane-change and no lane-change from the first-lane is initiated by an operator (18) of the host-vehicle (12), and allow a lane-change to a second-lane when initiated by the operator (18). The controller (30) is also configured to initiate a lane-change to the first-lane from the second-lane after a first-time-interval (44) after the lane-change to the second-lane that was initiated by the operator (18) when the first-lane is available for unimpeded travel by the host-vehicle (12) for greater than a second-time-interval (46).
AUTOMATED VEHICLE LANE-KEEPING SYSTEM
AUTOMATISCHES SPURHALTESYSTEM FÜR FAHRZEUGE
SYSTÈME DE MAINTIEN DE VOIE POUR VÉHICULE AUTOMATISÉ
2018-12-26
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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