Robert Boschgmbh

Pascal Kanter

Michael Schumann

Volker Niemz

Philipp Lehner

Bernd Mueller

Andreas-Juergen Rohatschek

Karsten Muehlmann

Tobias Kirchner

Markus Becker

Uwe Beutnagel-Buchner

Raphael Cano

Peter Preissler

Thomas App

Klaus-Peter Mattern

Thomas Kuhn

Jan Egelhaaf

Werner Knee

Michael Frischke

Thomas Jaeger

Christian Lasarczyk

Henning Von Zitzewitz

Michael Smuda Von Trzebiatowski

Sergio Amaya

Thorsten Schwarz

Leo Vepa

Mahtab Niknahad

A method for operating a data processing unit of a driver assistance system, the unit including main and slave computers. The main computer ascertains surroundings data from a surroundings detection system by using a processing specification. The slave computer operates a communication interface of the data processing unit, using a communication instruction. The method includes initializing, a first testing, a carrying out, a second testing and a forwarding. In initializing, the main computer, in response to a signal, is initialized by performing an initialization instruction on the main computer. In the first testing, the slave computer, in response to the signal, is initialized by performing a self-test instruction on the slave computer. In the carrying out, the communication instruction is performed on the slave computer to send and/or receive data via the communication interface, when the slave computer is tested and while the main computer is initialized. In the second testing, the main computer is tested by performing a test instruction on the slave computer, when the main computer is initialized. In the forwarding, the surroundings data are forwarded via the communication interface by performing the communication instruction on the slave computer, when the main computer is tested.

Method for operating a data processing unit of a driver assistance system and data processing unit

A method for classifying surroundings of a motor vehicle includes: providing a hypothesis regarding the class to which the surroundings belong; sampling pieces of information from the surroundings of the motor vehicle; determining a criterion which supports or weakens the hypothesis based on the sampled pieces of information; and determining a probability of the hypothesis being correct, using the criterion with the aid of Bayesian filtering.

Method and device for determining surroundings

A method for monitoring and signaling a traffic situation in the surrounding environment of a vehicle, a sensor acquiring a surrounding environment of the vehicle, an object at risk being recognized in the acquired environment, a collision probability and a prediction reliability being determined for the recognized object at risk, and when there is a given collision probability and a low prediction reliability an action of a first type being carried out, and when there is a given collision probability and a high prediction reliability an action of a second type being carried out. The present invention further relates to a driver assistance system for carrying out the method.

Method for monitoring and signaling a traffic situation in the surroundings of a vehicle

A method for transferring data from an image-data-based map service for use in an assistance system of a vehicle includes the following: ascertaining the position and/or orientation of the vehicle, retrieving image data of the vehicle surroundings from the image-data-based map service, extracting items of information from the image data of the map service, and transferring the items of information into the assistance system.

Transfer of data from image-data-based map services into an assistance system

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Pascal Kanter