Audi Ag

Volkswagen Ag

Tim Kubertschak

Simon Steinmeyer

Marek Musial

Nicholas Schmitt

Daniel Mossau

Oliver Birbach

Patrick Glässer

Thomas Bock

Marina Wittenzellner

Mirko MÄHLISCH

A method for operating a plurality of antennas of a vehicle is disclosed, in which the vehicle communicates wirelessly with an external radio station while traveling through a radio cell of the external radio station by means of a radio signal emitted by the plurality of antennas. The vehicle includes a plurality of antennas and a controller operatively connected to the antennas.

Method of operation for an antenna array of a vehicle

The invention relates to a method and a motor vehicle comprising a sensor assembly for a 360&#xb0; detection of the motor vehicle surroundings. The sensor assembly has multiple sensors of the same type, wherein each of the multiple sensors has a specified detection region and the sensors are distributed around the exterior of the motor vehicle such that the detection regions collectively provide a complete detection zone which covers the surroundings in a complete angle about the motor vehicle at a specified distance from the motor vehicle. The sensors are each designed to detect the surroundings in their respective detection region as respective sensor data in respective successive synchronized time increments. The sensor assembly has a pre-processing mechanism which fuses the sensor data of each of the sensors in order to generate a three-dimensional image of the surroundings for a respective identical time increment and provides same in a common database.

Motor vehicle and method for a 360&#xb0; detection of the motor vehicle surroundings

The invention relates to a method for improved data fusion during environment detection in a motor vehicle (), comprising the following steps: detecting () an environment () of the motor vehicle () using at least one sensor (); recognising () objects () in measurement data () detected by the at least one sensor (); fusioning () of the recognised objects () and the object positions thereof in an environment map (), wherein a probability of existence is/will be assigned to objects () recorded in the environment map (), and wherein the probability of existence of a recorded object () is reduced, when a free region () is measured during the detection of the position of the recorded object, wherein a respective orientation attribute () is assigned to the objects () recorded in the environment map () and recorded in the environment map (), and for a region in the sensor region () of the at least one sensor (), in which a free region () is measured, the probability of existence of an object () recorded in the region of the environment map () corresponding to the region is reduced in accordance with the assigned orientation attribute (). The invention also relates to the associated device ().

Method and device in a motor vehicle for improved data fusion in an environment detection

The disclosure relates to a method for updating an electronic map. The method includes detecting at least one first object by means of a sensor device of a motor vehicle and assigning a position of the motor vehicle, detected by means of a position detecting device of the motor vehicle, to the detected first object. The method also includes generating a first object data set representing the detected first object and the position assigned to the first object, by means of an evaluation device of the motor vehicle. The method further includes deriving a second object data set, representing a second object external to the vehicle, which is different from the first object detected, from the first object data set. The method also includes updating the electronic map by adding map data corresponding to the second object data set to the map or by removing map data contradicting the second object data set from the map by means of a computing device to improve updating of the electronic map.

Updating an electronic map

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Tim Kubertschak