Valeo Schalter Und Sensoren Gmbh

Volkswagen Ag

Tobias Geiger

Philipp Hüger

Nicolas Jecker

Michael Hallek

Ulrich Wuttke

Vsevolod Vovkushevsky

Oliver Grimm

Michael Kiehn

Mehmet Terkes

Michael Koehler

Dimitrios Tzempetzis

Ulrich Bressler

Jens Bammert

Frank Blinkle

Marco Heimberger

Joern Karl Friedrich Lichtenhagen

Gerald Koudijs

Manja Greimeier

Andreas Walz

Jörn Karl Friedrich Lichtenhagen

Olivier Grimm

The invention concerns a method for monitoring a surrounding area () of a vehicle-trailer combination () formed by a motor vehicle () and a trailer (), with which at least one radar sensor () is disposed on a rear area () at the trailer () for acquiring radar sensor data from the surrounding area () behind the trailer () and the acquired radar sensor data are transmitted to a controller () of the motor vehicle (). Moreover, the invention concerns a monitoring device (), a driver assistance system and a vehicle-trailer combination ().

Method for monitoring a surrounding area of a vehicle-trailer combination, monitoring device, driver assistance system and vehicle-trailer combination

In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for performing a parking operation of a motor vehicle into a transverse parking space by means of a parking assistance system of the motor vehicle. With the method of the present disclosure, environmental information related to an environment of the motor vehicle can be captured by one or more sensors. The transverse parking space further can be detected by a controller of the parking assistance system depending on the environmental information, and one or more control signals can be received at a steering system of the motor vehicle. Based upon the one or more control signals received at the steering system, the motor vehicle can be guided from a current position through an entry side of the transverse parking space into the transverse parking space.

Method for carrying out a parking process of a motor vehicle into a transverse parking space, parking assistance system and motor vehicle

An optical object sensing device for a motor vehicle, having an emitter unit for emitting an emission light beam and having a receiver unit for receiving a reception light beam, and having an electronic evaluation device for detecting an object external to the vehicle in a vicinity of the motor vehicle as a function of the reception light beam. The emitter unit includes an emitter for generating the emission light beam, a controllable micromirror by which the emission light beam can be panned at least in a first panning direction, and an emission lens arranged behind the micromirror in the emission beam path, where at least along the first panning direction, the emission lens is configured as a concave-convex lens with a concavely curved surface, which faces towards the micromirror, and with a convexly curved surface.

Optical object-detection device having a MEMS and motor vehicle having such a detection device

An imaging device and method for producing an image of a vehicle surroundings of a vehicle with at least one camera includes recording a first partial image in a first position or alignment of the camera and recording at least a second partial image in at least a second position or alignment of the camera, each partial image corresponding to the entire coverage area of the camera. The first partial image and the second partial image are assembled to form the image of the vehicle surroundings such that the image shows a larger area than each partial image. The imaging device includes the camera and an image synthesis device with which the first partial image and the second partial image can be assembled to form the image.

Method for generating an image of the surroundings of a vehicle and imaging device

The invention relates to a device and a method for displaying objects in the surroundings of a vehicle having a sensor arrangement, in order to sense objects in the surroundings of the vehicle and to determine the position thereof relative to the vehicle, wherein the sensor arrangement covers, with its detection range, only a partial area of the surroundings of the vehicle; in order to improve the assistance provided to the driver during parking processes and the processes of removing a vehicle from a parking space, the processing device is designed to determine the area of the surroundings of the vehicle for which no object information is yet available, since said area has not yet been passed over by the detection range of the sensor arrangement, and the display device is designed to display the extent of this area.

Device and method for displaying objects in the surroundings of a vehicle

The invention relates to a method for executing an at least semi-autonomous parking process of a vehicle () by means of a parking assistance system (), in which ambient conditions of the vehicle () are sensed as it travels past a potential parking space (), and a parking path is determined as a function of the ambient conditions and of the parking space (), wherein the ambient conditions comprise at least one obstacle () which is external to the parking space and does not directly bound the parking space () and is detected as near to the vehicle and is taken into account in the determination of the parking path (), wherein the parking process is executed in a plurality of maneuvers (), and at least one maneuver () which is executed with an autonomous steering intervention is determined in terms of its profile as a function of the obstacle (). The invention also relates to a parking assistance system () for a vehicle ().

Method for executing an at least semi-autonomous parking process of a vehicle and parking assistance system for a vehicle

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Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

Tobias Geiger