US 11,900,808 B2
Apparatus, method, and computer program for a first vehicle and for estimating a position of a second vehicle at the first vehicle
Andreas Pfadler, Berlin (DE); Bernd Rech, Bokensdorf (DE); Daniel Reimann, Braunschweig (DE); Stefan Gläser, Braunschweig (DE); Bernd Lehmann, Wolfsburg (DE); and Julia Kwasny, Wolfsburg (DE)
Assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Filed by VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/464,216.
Claims priority of application No. 20195053 (EP), filed on Sep. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0076575 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/13 (2006.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); G08G 1/127 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/127 (2013.01) 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for a first transportation vehicle for estimating a position of a second transportation vehicle at the first transportation vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
one or more interfaces to communicate messages; and
a control module to control the one or more interfaces, wherein the control module is further configured to control the apparatus to estimate the position of the second transportation vehicle at the first transportation vehicle by:
obtaining information on an environmental map of surroundings of the first transportation vehicle,
receiving information on a trajectory of the second transportation vehicle, wherein the trajectory information includes information on a desired trajectory of the second transportation vehicle, and
estimating a current position of the second transportation vehicle in the environmental map based on fitting the received trajectory information in the environmental map.