METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING AN ENVIRONMENT MODEL FOR A VEHICLE

• Main Authors: Wendel, Viktor, Berninger, Harald
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.11.2018
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TESTING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A method for generating an environment model for a reference vehicle in a driving environment is disclosed. A data record is received from a third-party vehicle via a communication interface. The data record includes absolute position information of the third-party vehicle. The absolute position of the reference vehicle is determined. A relative position of the third-party vehicle is calculated based on absolute position information of the reference vehicle and the third-party vehicle. A relative position of an object in the driving environment is detected with a spatially resolving environment sensor on the reference vehicle. The detected object is correlated with the third-party vehicle when the calculated relative position of the third-party vehicle matches the detected relative position of the object.