Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Bernd Spanfelner

Pascal Minnerup

Sebastian Rauch

Sebastian Gruenwedel

Daniel Niehues

Markus Schurius

Alexander Lottes

Christine Kock

Dirk De Bruin

A method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle includes the steps of: checking whether there is a motorway exit or roadworks on a first side of the vehicle; checking whether an environment sensor system of the vehicle detects a lane marking that bounds a lane of the vehicle on a second side, which is opposite the first side; if the result of the checking is that there is a motorway exit or roadworks on the first side of the vehicle and that the environment sensor system detects the lane marking, operating a lane-keeping function of the driver assistance system; and if the result of the checking is that there is a motorway exit or roadworks on the first side of the vehicle and that the environment sensor system does not detect the lane marking, triggering a takeover request to a driver of the vehicle.

Method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle and processing device for controlling a driver assistance system

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

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Ebersberg, Germany

Bernd Spanfelner