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Hitch assist system and method for autonomously maneuvering a vehicle in a user-specified target travel direction

US10802478B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

Luke Niewiadomski · Dearborn, US
Roger Arnold Trombley · Ann Arbor, US
Dongran Liu · San Jose, US
Yi Zhang · Corning, US
Douglas Rogan · Ferndale, US
Chen Zhang · Redmond, US
Shannon Brooks-Lehnert · Ann Arbor, US
Vidya Nariyambut Murali · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 19, 2017
Grant date	Oct 13, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 11, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05D1/0257
WIPO fieldControl
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A hitch assist system and method are provided herein. A human machine interface is configured to receive user-input specifying a target travel direction of a vehicle. A controller is configured to generate commands for autonomously maneuvering the vehicle in the target travel direction, identify a hitch coupler of a trailer based on input received from an object detection system, and request additional user-input updating the target travel direction if the hitch coupler is unable to be identified.

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