Patent ID: 11945458
Assignee: FERRARI S.P.A.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for performance-enhancing driver assistance of a road vehicle (1) driven by a driver (DR); the method comprises:
defining, only once during a design and development phase, a dynamic model (DM) of the road vehicle (1);
determining, in use, the actual position (AP) and orientation of the road vehicle (1) in the space by means of a localization device (3);
detecting, in use, a plurality of environmental data (ED) concerning the environment in which the road vehicle (1) operates by means of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) devices (4);
detecting, in use, a plurality of dynamic data (DD) of the vehicle (1) by means of a control system (5);
determining, in use, in an automatic manner completely independent of the driver (DR) and cyclically, a passing through point (PTP) of the road vehicle (1) arranged in front of the road vehicle (1) and at a given distance from the road vehicle (1) along a path followed by the road vehicle (1), and wherein the given distance of the passing through point varies depending on the path in each cycle, wherein the given distance of the passing through point is smaller in bends than in straight segments; and
solving, in use and through the use of the dynamic model (DM) of the road vehicle (1), an optimum control problem (OCP) aimed at optimizing a cost function (CF) selected from the group consisting of time and fuel consumption, taking into account, as boundary conditions, the plurality of environmental data (ED), the actual position (AP) and the passing through point (PTP), so as to compute a mission (M) optimizing the cost function (CF) from the actual position (AP) of the vehicle (1) to the passing through point (PTP) of the vehicle (1).