Method and device for localizing a vehicle in its surroundings

US10520949B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Carsten Hasberg · Ilsfeld, DE
• Stefan Nordbruch · Kornwestheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 13, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2019
• Expiry date: Oct 13, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2556/65
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and a device for localizing a vehicle in its surroundings, the vehicle having surround sensors, which at first times detect views of the surroundings using the surround sensors as sensor views and supply these to an evaluation unit, and having a communication interface, via which at second times current surroundings data regarding the current surroundings of the vehicle are transmitted to the evaluation unit, and the localization of the vehicle occurs in that in the evaluation unit the surroundings data, which were detected by the surround sensors at first times, and the temporally corresponding surrounding data, which were transmitted via the communication interface, are superimposed on one another. If it is detected that features in the surroundings data detected by the sensors and/or features in the surroundings data supplied via the communication interface occur multiple times in the data pertaining to one point in time and these represent one or multiple objects, these are transmitted only once to the evaluation device and, for a repeated occurrence of the features in the data pertaining to one point in time, only the positional data of the repeatedly occurring object…