Robert Boschgmbh

Michael Schlick

Juergen Hoetzel

Tore Toennesen

Hermann Winner

Werner Uhler

Dirk Schmid

Frank Gottwald

Rainer Moritz

Bernhard Lucas

Siegbert Steinlechner

Alfred Kuttenberger

Uwe Zimmermann

Marcus Schneider

Jens Schick

Thomas Brosche

Martin Hueppauff

Thorsten Sohnke

Dirk Schmidt

Jens Haensel

Karl-Heinz Richter

Joachim Bulla

Andreas Hein

Berndhard Lucas

Andreas Gruenewald

A control/evaluation system for a set of sensors, in particular in motor vehicles, has a plurality of areas, each of which has at least one controller and a plurality of sensor devices connected thereto; the controllers may be connected to each other for a common application function.

Control and evaluation system for a compound sensor

For an angle-resolving antenna system, only two radar sensors are provided including separate transmitting and receiving antennas. The receiving antennas of the two radar sensors are switchable with reference to their main beam direction as well as to their beam width.

Angular resolution antenna system

To protect vehicle occupants in dangerous situations, the distance of the vehicle to a roadside object, such as a guardrail, etc., is determined and compared to a critical distance. If the actual distance is less than the critical distance, alarm devices are triggered and/or reversible restraining devices are deployed. The critical distance may be determined as a function of the host vehicle velocity.

Method and arrangement for the preventive protection of vehicle passengers in dangerous situations

A pulse radar system has a high-frequency source, which supplies a continuous high-frequency signal and is connected on the one side with a transmission-side pulse modulator and on the other side with two separately controllable pulse modulators in at least one receive path. Mixers are situated downstream from pulse modulators, respectively. The mixers evaluate a radar pulse reflected by an object together with the signal of the high-frequency source. The pulse radar system allows different modes of operation that may be changed in a simple manner.

Pulse radar arrangement

The present invention provides a method and a device for controlling and evaluating at least one sensor device jointly used by a plurality of applications, in particular occupant-assistance/occupant-protection applications in an apparatus of locomotion, having the following steps: the measuring of certain locomotion apparatus parameters by a situation-detection device for determining the situation of the apparatus of locomotion with respect to its surroundings; the querying of the locomotion apparatus situation by a control device connected to the situation-detection device; and the activation of an application corresponding to the locomotion apparatus situation, by the control device.

Method for controlling and evaluating a sensor device shared by a plurality of applications

A method and an apparatus for operating a radar sensor system with a number of adjacent individual sensors (), extensively synchronized with one another, for determining the position of a target object () are proposed. In one measurement cycle, the transit time of the radar signal emitted from one individual sensor and reflected by the target object to this individual sensor () (direct echo ()) and to a different individual sensor () (cross echo ()) is evaluated. From the evaluation of the direct and cross echoes (), at least the position of the target object () is determined, and a detection quality signal (Q) is ascertained, and once a predetermined amount of the detection quality signal (Q) is reached for a target object (), a calibration is performed.

Method and device for self-calibration of a radar sensor arrangement

Proposed is a method for measuring distance, which improves the resolution and the selectivity in an echo method, using propagation-time measurement. In this context, a received signal is sampled without first having to smooth the signal.

Method for measuring distance

A device for outputting parameter values and a method of providing parameter values which pertain to the relative kinematic behavior of an object, in particular a first vehicle, and a target object, in particular a second vehicle, a conclusion is drawn based on the parameter values as to whether the object and the target object will probably collide. The method involves providing a sensor system on the object, the sensor system being provided for transmitting and receiving signals to determine measured values r , v for target object distance r and/or for relative radial velocity v between the object and the target object, determining measured values r , v and analyzing measured values r , v thus determined and providing the parameter values based on the signals received by a receiver.

Method and device for estimating movement parameters of targets

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