Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Frank Golub

Erick Michael Lavoie

Roger Arnold Trombley

Hamid M Golgiri

Luke Niewiadomski

Vidya Nariyambut Murali

Bruno Sielly Jales Costa

Seyed Armin Raeis Hosseiny

Bo Bao

Nikhil Nagraj Rao

Kyle Simmons

Hemanth Yadav Aradhyula

Katherine Rouen

Siyuan Ma

John Michael Celli

Frederic Christen

Christoph Kessler

A system for assisting in aligning a vehicle for hitching with a trailer includes a vehicle steering system, a wireless communication module, a detection system outputting a signal including scene data of an area to a rear of the vehicle, and a controller. The controller receives, via the wireless communication module, an automated hitching initiation command from an external wireless device, receives the scene data and identifying the trailer within the area to the rear of the vehicle, derives a backing path to align a hitch ball mounted on the vehicle to a coupler of the trailer, and controls the vehicle steering system to maneuver the vehicle including reversing along the backing path.

System and method for remote automated vehicle alignment with a trailer for hitching

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Oak Park, MI, United States of America

Frank Golub