Patent ID: 11878679
Assignee: FERRARI S.P.A.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for a performance-enhancing driver assistance (PE) of a road vehicle (1) driven on a track (8) by a driver (DR); the method comprising:
defining, only once during a design and development phase, a dynamic model (DM) of the road vehicle (1);
determining, in use, an actual position and orientation of the road vehicle (1) on the track (8) by means of a localization device (3);
detecting, in use, a plurality of space data concerning the structure of the track (8);
detecting, in use, a plurality of dynamic data (DD) of the road 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);
solving, 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), taking into account, as boundary conditions, a 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 road vehicle (1) to the passing through point (PTP) of the road vehicle (1); and
driving, by means of a control unit (11) and following a selection of the driver (DR) through a dedicated operating device (12), the road vehicle (1) in an autonomous manner so as to show to the driver (DR) the mission (M) optimizing the cost function (CF).