Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Research Institute Europe Gmbh

Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen

Jan Fritsch

Yoshiaki Sakagami

Bernd Heisele

Christian Goerick

Andreas Alin

Martin Butz

A vehicle periphery monitoring deviceis equipped with a first recognizing unitwhich recognizes a shape of a road in a traveling direction of a self vehicle C, a second recognizing unitwhich recognizes a position of an object M existing in a periphery of the self vehicle C, an estimating unitwhich estimates a moving direction of the object M from the position recognized by the second recognizing unit, and a contact avoiding process unitwhich determines whether or not to perform an avoiding process for avoiding contact between the self vehicle C and the object M, on the basis of a relationship between the shape of the road recognized by the first recognizing unitand the moving direction of the object M estimated by the estimating unit

Vehicle periphery monitoring device

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Muehlheim am Main, Germany

Jan Fritsch