Patent ID: 11958479
Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G

Claim 9:
10. A central control unit for controlling at least partly automated vehicles in a roadway danger zone, in particular intersections of roadways in road traffic, wherein:
a control device comprising a computer program product having a nonvolatile, readable memory, in which processor-readable control program instructions of a program module that carries out the vehicle control are stored, and a processor, which is connected to the memory and which executes the control program instructions of the program module for vehicle control, and a control interface, and
at least one communication device, which in terms of communication technology is connected to the control device and to the computer program product therein via the control interface or is assigned to the control device and the computer program product therein, wherein the control device and the communication device interact and are embodied with regard to the vehicle control in such a way that
a) the communication device receives from each vehicle of the vehicles, when said vehicle is approaching the roadway danger zone in order to pass through the latter, first control data for the purpose of surrender of a vehicle control power for the vehicle control of dynamic driving tasks and forwards said data to the control device,
b) the control device, having received the first control data and the vehicle control powers surrendered by the vehicles as a result, generates a digital roadway danger zone twin, by means of which, owing to the vehicle control powers having been surrendered, the control device, by means of second control data, via the communication device, controls vehicle movements of the vehicle for passing through the roadway danger zone automatically, dynamically, in a vehicle-coordinating manner and in a vehicle-collision-free manner.