Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Frederic Christen

Roger Arnold Trombley

Luke Niewiadomski

Kyle Simmons

Erick Michael Lavoie

Hamid M Golgiri

Vidya Nariyambut Murali

Li Xu

Eric Hongtei Tseng

Bruno Sielly Jales Costa

Seyed Armin Raeis Hosseiny

Bo Bao

Nikhil Nagraj Rao

George Edmund Walley

Hemanth Yadav Aradhyula

Arnav Sharma

Katherine Rouen

Siyuan Ma

John Michael Celli

Christoph Kessler

Frank Golub

A system for assisting in aligning a vehicle for hitching with a trailer includes a vehicle steering system, a detection system outputting a signal including scene data of an area to a rear of the vehicle, and a controller that controls the vehicle steering system to maneuver the vehicle according to an initial alignment maneuver that positions the vehicle relative to the trailer, such that the trailer is within the area to the rear of the vehicle. The controller further receives the scene data and identifies 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.

Trailer GPS location storage and recall for hitch assist operation

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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Walhorn, Belgium

Frederic Christen