Valet parking method and valet parking system

Abstract

A method is proposed for automatically moving a vehicle (10, 50) from a handover zone (18) to an assigned parking place (24) within a predefined parking space (20) and for automatically driving the vehicle (10, 50) out of a parking space and moving said vehicle to a pick-up zone (19), wherein the vehicles (10, 50) travelling within the predefined parking space (20) are located by means of a parking place monitoring system comprising at least one sensor unit (30) arranged in a stationary manner and information about the current vehicle position is transmitted to a central control unit (15). The central control unit (15) transmits information to the vehicle (10, 50) so that the vehicle (10, 50) can be guided autonomously within the parking space (20) along a trajectory (40, 45) based on the information. According to the invention, the sensor units (30) are arranged such that certain regions (32) of the parking space are monitored with a high accuracy by the sensor units (30) and other regions of the parking space (31) are monitored with a lower accuracy by the sensor units, wherein overlapping regions (42, 44) of trajectories of other vehicles are determined with the trajectory of the central control unit (15), and the trajectory (40, 45) is adjusted such that an overlapping region (42, 44) in a region (32) of the parking space (20) which is monitored with high accuracy by the sensor units (30) comes to rest.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a valet parking method and a valet parking system for automatically bringing a vehicle into a parking space designated for a corresponding vehicle within a prescribed parking space. [0002] In this context, a valet parking method or a valet parking system is to be understood in particular as a method or a system in which the driver of the vehicle can deliver the vehicle at a predetermined delivery location, whereupon the vehicle is automatically parked or parked by service personnel and re-provided to the driver according to wishes or deadlines. The present invention is dedicated to a valet parking method and a valet parking system in which a vehicle is parked by an automatic system. In this case, the vehicle moves autonomously, ie without the intervention of a human driver, to the designated parking lot and returns to the pick-up location. Background technique [0003] Valet parking systems are fully automatic drive...

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Problems solved by technology

Since the odometer usually has measurement errors in the expected vehicle position, which lead to drift effects, it is only possible to drive through particularly narrow passageways of multi-storey parking lots with a high risk of collision

This risk is also increased when the trajectory planning of the central control unit places the intersection region of the trajectories of two vehicles simultaneously autonomously moving inside the parking space in an area with a high degree of inaccuracy in the positioning of the vehicles

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