Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh

Jean-Baptiste Vimort

David Guerrero

Vicente Poveda Carias

A method for determining the angular position of a vehicle including a towing vehicle, a towing platform articulated on the towing vehicle, and a trailer articulated on the towing platform. The method includes camera acquiring a first image in a first reference position of the vehicle, and detecting at least one characteristic point of the trailer in the first position. The camera acquires a second image in a second position of the vehicle, and detects the characteristic point in the second position, the detected characteristic point being the same for each position. A position of the characteristic point is estimated in the first position and the second position of the vehicle by minimizing a cost function based on an iteration of different values of the height of the characteristic point in the first position of the vehicle and of the characteristic point in the second position of the vehicle. The angle of rotation between the trailer and the towing platform is determined based on the estimated position of the characteristic point estimated during the estimation step.

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St Genis les Ollières, France

Jean-Baptiste Vimort