Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Mbda Deutschland Gmbh

Alexander Lottes

Werner Richter

Michael Grabmeier

Pascal Minnerup

Bernd Spanfelner

Christian Forster

A method for securing a geographic position of a vehicle includes scanning multiple information sources, which each provide items of information which indicate the position of the vehicle; determining individual positions on the basis of each of items of information of one of the information sources and items of surroundings information in the region of a position hypothesis; validating items of information, the associated individual position of which deviates by not more than a predetermined amount from the position hypothesis; determining the position of the vehicle on the basis of the validated items of information, wherein a change of a quality of the items of surroundings information is determined; and, on the basis of the change, determining a probability at which the determined position deviates by more than the predetermined amount from an actual position.

Securing a geographic position

In a method for generating map data of a digital map from raw data of the digital map with improved flexibility, an object-specific correction data set is used for generating the map data. The object-specific correction data set comprises precisely one value of a derived attribute for the map object, wherein the value of the derived attribute contained in the correction data set is allocated to the map object of the map data.

Method and data processing system for generating map data of a digital map

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Munich, Germany

Alexander Lottes