Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Pascal Minnerup

Sebastian Rauch

Sebastian Gruenwedel

Daniel Niehues

Bernd Spanfelner

Maxi Winter

Vladimir Haltakov

Peter Pedron

Alexander Lottes

Markus Schurius

Barbara Roessle

Christine Kock

Dirk De Bruin

Manus Mcelhone

Martin Zeman

Marc Scott Meissner

A method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle includes the steps of: checking whether there is a motorway exit or roadworks on a first side of the vehicle; checking whether an environment sensor system of the vehicle detects a lane marking that bounds a lane of the vehicle on a second side, which is opposite the first side; if the result of the checking is that there is a motorway exit or roadworks on the first side of the vehicle and that the environment sensor system detects the lane marking, operating a lane-keeping function of the driver assistance system; and if the result of the checking is that there is a motorway exit or roadworks on the first side of the vehicle and that the environment sensor system does not detect the lane marking, triggering a takeover request to a driver of the vehicle.

Method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle and processing device for controlling a driver assistance system

A computer-implemented method estimates a vehicle position. The method provides a first position estimate based on position information from at least one first source, wherein the first position estimate is assigned a first bias value and a first statistical variance; provides a second position estimate based on position information from at least one second source; determines a third bias value and a third statistical variance, wherein the third bias value and the third statistical variance are assigned to a third position estimate which results from a combination of the first position estimate and the second position estimate; and evaluates the first position estimate and the third position estimate on the basis of a quality criterion which takes into account the bias value assigned to each position estimate and the statistical variance assigned to each position estimate. When, according to the quality criterion, the third position estimate is better than the first position estimate, the third position estimate is used as the result of the estimation of the vehicle position or as the basis for a combination with position information from one or more additional sources. When, according to the quality criterion, the first position estimate is better than the third position estimate, the first position estimate is used as the result of the estimation of the vehicle position or as the basis for a combination with position information from one or more additional sources.

Computer-implemented method for estimating a vehicle position

A method for securing a geographic position of a vehicle includes scanning multiple information sources, which each provide items of information which indicate the position of the vehicle; determining individual positions on the basis of each of items of information of one of the information sources and items of surroundings information in the region of a position hypothesis; validating items of information, the associated individual position of which deviates by not more than a predetermined amount from the position hypothesis; determining the position of the vehicle on the basis of the validated items of information, wherein a change of a quality of the items of surroundings information is determined; and, on the basis of the change, determining a probability at which the determined position deviates by more than the predetermined amount from an actual position.

Securing a geographic position

A method for controlling a first vehicle, travelling on a road, that has a second vehicle travelling ahead of it, includes the steps of: scanning the second vehicle from the first vehicle by use of multiple sensors; providing individual determinations, each on the basis of scans by only one of the sensors, concerning whether the first and the second vehicle are travelling in the same lane of the road, wherein each sensor has an associated determination certainty; and providing a collision warning if a product of the determination certainties is below a predetermined threshold value.

Method for controlling a vehicle, and control apparatus for a vehicle

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Pascal Minnerup