US 12,033,504 B2
Method for detecting an obstacle in front of a vehicle
Nico Schleweis, Donnbronn (DE); Robin Petereit, Bietigheim-Bissingen (DE); Benedikt Lehnertz, Tamm (DE); and Lea Fischer, Korntal-Muenchingen (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/042,709
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/058039
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 28, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/197179, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 17, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 102018205532.7 (DE), filed on Apr. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0142662 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. G08G 1/052 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/052 (2013.01) [G01S 13/931 (2013.01); G08G 1/0104 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for detecting an obstacle in front of a vehicle using a radar sensor, the method comprising the following steps:
monitoring, using the radar sensor, a monitoring area in front of the vehicle; and
classifying an object detected in the monitoring area using the radar sensor;
wherein the monitoring area is divided into monitoring subareas, and wherein, in the classifying step, a first classification rule is used only for the classification for a first monitoring subarea of the subareas, and a second classification rule is used only for the classification for a second monitoring subarea of the subareas.