Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Nate Rolfes

Erick Michael Lavoie

Roger Arnold Trombley

Thomas Edward Pilutti

John Shutko

Sudipto Aich

Bradley George Hochrein

Christopher Scott Nave

Torsten Wey

Dirk Gunia

Salvador Toledo

Janet Meise

Rich Lanoue

Kay C Müller

Marcus Kalabis

A vehicle trailer backup assist system and method includes a hitch angle detection apparatus and a target monitor controller. The target monitor controller processes images acquired of the trailer towed by a towing vehicle to assist with placement of a target on the trailer. The target monitor controller also monitors the target and provides feedback to the user as to proper positioning of the target on the trailer. A target move detection routine detects movement of a target by processing the pixels of the image to determine if a new trailer has been connected. Further, a trailer connection monitoring routine monitors for a changed trailer based on loss of the hitch angle or target for a predetermined time period.

Trailer monitoring system and method

A system and method for configuring a trailer backup assist system. The system and method communicates predetermined trailer parameters, which are embedded on a tag attached to the trailer, to a controller in the trailer backup assist system. A trailer backup assist system is configured using the predetermined trailer parameters and the configured trailer backup assist system is activated to operate using the trailer parameters.

Trailer identification system for trailer backup assist

A park assist system for parking a vehicle in a target parking space includes a sensing system. The sensing system determines whether there is a sufficient slot length in a target parking space too small to complete a parking maneuver in a single maneuver, but large enough to complete a parking maneuver in more than one maneuver. During each of the more than one parking maneuvers, the driver is prompted to execute a calculated steering trajectory.

Vehicle park assist system and method for parking a vehicle using such system

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