Method and apparatus for predicting a movement trajectory

US8340883B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Maxim Arbitmann · Rochester Hills, US
• Matthias Schorn · Floh-Seligenthal, DE
• Rolf Isermann · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE
• Ulrich Stählin · Eschborn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 15, 2006
• Grant date: Dec 25, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 19, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/40
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In order to be able to undertake a reliable prediction of a movement trajectory of an object moving in road traffic even for relatively long prediction periods, a method is proposed in which there is firstly determined (203) with the aid of an evaluation of a determined movement variable of the object a driving maneuver that is executed by the object. A model (2051; . . . ; 205N) of the movement of the object is then selected as a function of the determined driving maneuver, and the movement trajectory of the object is calculated with the aid of the selected model. There is also proposed an apparatus for predicting the movement trajectory of an object that is suitable for carrying out the method. The object can be both a motor vehicle and an object in the surroundings of the motor vehicle.