Conti Temic Microelectronic Gmbh

Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Vitesco Technologies Germany Gmbh

Continental Automotive Technologies Gmbh

Ralph Grewe

Ulrich Stählin

Alfred Eckert

Thomas Grotendorst

Stefan Hegemann

Stefan Heinrich

Thomas Fechner

Georg Halasy-Wimmer

Martin Randler

Stefan Lüke

Stefan Lueke

Matthias Zobel

Matthias Komar

Ronald Bayer

Adam Swoboda

Marc Fischer

Steen Kristensen

Henning Hamer

Dirk Ulbricht

Bastian Zydek

Rolf Adomat

Andree Hohm

Bernd Piller

Steffen Schaack

Annemarie Kunkel

Maxim Arbitmann

Stefan LÜKE

A system for generating map information for one or more road sections of a digital road map comprises an interface for receiving data records for the one or more road sections. The data records describe properties of surfaces outside the immediate road area. The system further comprises a first module for evaluating the received data records in order to identify first surfaces outside the immediate road area that are able to be driven on by a vehicle after leaving the road and on which the vehicle can be brought to a standstill after leaving the road, a second module for generating a description of the first surfaces in a format suitable for digital road maps, and a third module for retrievably providing the description of the first surfaces in one or more formats suitable for digital road maps.

Method and system for generating map information for emergency surfaces

A method and a device for determining the position of a vehicle, said method comprising the steps: recording sensor data from the ground over which the vehicle travels; extracting ground characteristics of the ground over which the vehicle travels from the recorded sensor data or from occupancy grids which are calculated on the basis of the sensor data; determining the current position of the vehicle on the basis of the extracted ground characteristics using a characteristic map.

Method and system for determining the position of a vehicle

A surroundings modeling device for a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle, includes a separating device configured to separate a total vehicle surroundings model into a static vehicle surroundings model based on a first look-ahead distance and a dynamic vehicle surroundings model based on a second look-ahead distance. A first real-time computing device is configured to calculate the dynamic vehicle surroundings model on the basis of the first look-ahead distance within a maximum response time. A second real-time computing device is configured to calculate the static vehicle surroundings model on the basis of the second look-ahead distance with a characteristic response time. A situation analysis device is configured to change the separation process on the basis of an analysis of the total vehicle surroundings model.

Surroundings modeling device for a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle

A control device for a vehicle, with at least one environment sensor which is designed to detect the surroundings of the vehicle, with a computing device which is designed to detect the position of the vehicle and to operate the environment sensor on the basis of corresponding location-dependent operating parameters.

Control device, server system and vehicle

The present invention relates to a vehicle control device for a vehicle, comprising a number of first control devices which are independent of each other and are arranged in a first logical level and designed to calculate predetermined first vehicle control functions and to output first calculation results, a number of further control devices which are independent of each other, are arranged in a number which is superordinate from the first logical level and hierarchically arranged among each other and are designed to calculate further predetermined vehicle control functions and to output further calculation results. According to the invention, the further control devices are designed to use calculation results only of those control devices as input variables for the corresponding vehicle control functions which are arranged in logical levels hierarchically below the logical level of the respective control device.

Vehicle control device and method

The invention relates to a communication system for a vehicle, which device includes a sensor device, wherein the sensor device is arranged to capture sensor data when the sensor device moves. A receiving device receives reference data from an external management system and a processing device determines a difference between the captured sensor data and the corresponding reference data, wherein the determined difference between the captured sensor and the corresponding reference data is transmitted to the external management system.

Communication system for a vehicle and method for communicating

A sensor system detects objects in an environment ahead of a vehicle. The environment is represented by a predetermined fixed number of position points in an environment model. Initially and when no objects are detected, the position points may be distributed stochastically over the detection area of the sensor system. When objects are detected, the position points are re-distributed based on the detected objects, e.g. with a higher density of position points to represent the detected objects. Because the total number of position points is a predefined fixed number that remains constant, the processing, storage and transmission of the environment model involves a constant data volume and efficient use of memory and transmission bandwidth.

Method for representing a vehicle environment with position points

A method and a device for analyzing trafficability use a computer to perform the following steps:

Method and device for analyzing trafficability

A driver assistance system with improved fault tolerance and a method for the same are provided. An actuator control variable for a reduced driver assistance application with reduced functionality is a calculated in a second control unit in case of unavailability of an actuator control variable for the main driver assistance application with full functionality as determined by a first control unit.

Method for a driver assistance application

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