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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard K Deering, Mt. Clemens, MI (US);
Assignee:
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342 70 ;
Abstract
A transmitted and received beam of a forward looking sensor of a source vehicle is steered as the source vehicle travels through a curvilinear path so that the steering angle is controlled to prevent the loss of detection of a target vehicle resulting from the effective lateral shaft of the beam relative to the path as the beam is steered into the curvilinear path. The beam is steered at an angle that limits the effective lateral shift of the beam relative to the curvilinear path such that a predetermined minimum target vehicle detection criteria is achieved.