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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
Cariad SE, Wolfsburg, DE;
Oliver Hoffmann, Wolfsburg, DE;
Frank Dierkes, Wolfsburg, DE;
CARIAD SE, Wolfsburg, DE;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method and a system for checking plausibility of a vehicle environment hypothesis for a motor vehicle. The method includes providing the vehicle environment hypothesis, which is identified from predefined data and provides an assumption about a characteristic of surroundings of the motor vehicle, detecting environmental features in the surroundings of the motor vehicle by way of a sensor system including a plurality of sensors; evaluating the environmental features with respect to the plausibility of the vehicle environment hypothesis by way of checking each environmental feature of the environmental features for a presence of one or more plausibility criteria, the one or more plausibility criteria depending on a type of the environmental feature and a type of sensor with which the environmental feature was detected; and checking the plausibility of the vehicle environment hypothesis based on the evaluating of the environmental features.