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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
Continental Autonomous Mobility Us, Llc, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Andrew Phillip Bolduc, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of planning a path for reversing a trailer along a defined path a includes defining a desired end point for a trailer path and determining a set of reversing trailer curvatures for moving the trailer between each of a plurality of possible waypoints along a possible trailer path. A steering angle is determined for each of the curvatures. The reversing trailer path to the end point is then created based on a set of waypoints selected based on the determined reversing trailer curvature at each of the plurality of possible waypoints that meets a defined path determination criteria.