Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Katherine Rouen

Seyed Armin Raeis Hosseiny

Bo Bao

Roger Arnold Trombley

Luke Niewiadomski

Clay Cundiff

Kyle Simmons

Benjamin Dion

Li Xu

Shannon Brooks-Lehnert

Erick Michael Lavoie

Hamid M Golgiri

Vidya Nariyambut Murali

Bruno Sielly Jales Costa

Nikhil Nagraj Rao

Kenneth Michael Mayer

Hemanth Yadav Aradhyula

Siyuan Ma

John Michael Celli

Frederic Christen

Christoph Kessler

Frank Golub

A vehicle hitching assistance system includes a controller acquiring image data from the vehicle and deriving a vehicle path to align a center of a hitch ball of the vehicle with a centerline of a trailer coupler within the image data. The controller also outputs a video image including a representation of a simplified path from the hitch ball to the coupler and outputs a steering signal to cause the vehicle to steer along the vehicle path.

Hitch assistance system with interface presenting simplified path image

Portion of a display screen with transitional graphical user interface

Display screen with graphical user interface

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

Display screen or portion thereof with transitional graphical user interface

A vehicle hitching assistance system includes a controller identifying a trailer coupler within a specified area relative to the vehicle. The specified area is defined between a maximum distance and a minimum distance from a rear of the vehicle and within left and right lateral vehicle control limits. The controller also outputs a steering signal to the vehicle to cause the vehicle to steer to align a hitch ball of the vehicle with the coupler.

Human machine interface for vehicle alignment in an acceptable hitch zone

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