471 results about "Parking area" patented technology

The invention discloses a quadruped robot inspection method based on multi-modal sensing fusion. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, initializing a global task, loading a basic navigation map, and generating the basic navigation map comprising topographic features, forbidden areas and parking positions; 2, autonomous navigation and dynamic correction of positioning deviation are realized according to laser radar SLAM data, and the positioning deviation is dynamically corrected according to real-time observation data; 3, dynamically switching or adjusting the gait strategy according to the terrain category, training the gait strategy of the quadruped robot to be matched with the terrain category, and generating a self-adaptive motion control instruction to adapt to the terrain in real time; and step 4, synchronously realizing parking area structured data acquisition and dynamic abnormal information perception through multi-sensor fusion, and realizing target state monitoring and abnormal event response in the inspection task. According to the invention, through collaborative innovation of the bionic motion platform and multi-mode intelligent detection, all-terrain coverage, total-factor perception and full-process autonomous intelligent inspection in a complex parking lot environment is realized.

The invention discloses a point cloud recognition training data enhancement method for a semi-closed scene. The method comprises the steps of extracting vehicle point cloud samples from labeled original point cloud data and constructing a point cloud sample library; constructing a point cloud base map, and performing functional region division; the main driving direction of each driving area is determined, and according to the spatial position relation between the driving area and the adjacent parking area, the vehicle head orientation distribution in each driving area is determined; determining the number of vehicle samples to be generated, and randomly selecting a corresponding number of vehicle point cloud samples from the point cloud sample library; and placing the selected vehicle point cloud sample at a layout position for random sampling in a driving area, and performing rigid body transformation of corresponding vehicle head orientation distribution on the placed vehicle point cloud sample. The method has the advantages that explicit space division is carried out on the driving area and the parking area, sample supplement is carried out on the driving area where the vehicles appear at low frequency in a targeted mode, and the problem of lack of training data in the space coverage level is effectively solved.

The invention discloses an intersection water area multi-ship-lock combined dispatching analogue simulation method and device and electronic equipment, and relates to the field of ship lock emulation.The method comprises the steps that a canal intersection water area multi-ship-lock system simulation model is built, and the model at least comprises a plurality of ship locks dispatched in a combined mode, configuring a ship traffic flow operation strategy of the multi-ship-lock system simulation model of the canal intersection water area, operating the multi-ship-lock system simulation model of the canal intersection water area, and counting ship operation data indexes, gate entering and exiting waiting time indexes, ship lock traffic flow indexes and navigation encounter frequency indexes of ships at the intersection to obtain a model simulation operation result; based on the model simulation operation result, the ship lock chamber plane scale, the ship lock scheduling rule, the intersection water area navigation rule and the parking area capacity are adjusted. The technical problem that a ship lock operation and water area navigation simulation model in the prior art focuses on performance evaluation of a single facility and cannot reflect a multi-ship lock operation mode of an intersection water area is solved.

The invention discloses an AGV-based automatic loading and unloading method and system, and relates to the technical field of industrial vehicle automatic driving, and the unloading process comprises the steps that after a loading and unloading vehicle arrives at a parking area, an AGV forklift drives to a designated path according to a station path issued by an AGV scheduling system, and an unloading task issued by the AGV scheduling system is obtained; the AGV forklift collects an image of an area where a to-be-forked carrier is located according to a depth camera, calculates carrier pose information, generates a dynamic path in combination with position coordinates of the AGV forklift, and carries out tail end unloading operation according to the dynamic path until unloading is completed; the loading process comprises the steps that after a loading and unloading vehicle arrives at a goods taking and placing channel area, a radar pan-tilt scans the position and posture of a compartment of the loading and unloading vehicle and dynamically calculates the positions and poses of multiple storage positions in the compartment, serial numbers and the positions of corresponding storage position front points; after the AGV forklift travels to a specified storage location preposition point according to a loading task issued by the AGV dispatching system and the current loading storage location position issued by the radar holder, the AGV forklift executes a precise loading task at the loading preposition point through the tail end recognition system, and tail end loading operation is conducted according to a dynamic path of the AGV forklift until loading of all storage locations is completed; according to the automatic loading and unloading method and system, the operation efficiency and the automation level of a logistics system are remarkably improved, and reliable flexible logistics guarantee is provided for intelligent manufacturing.

In various examples, parking area detection for autonomous and / or semi-autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods described herein may use a hybrid method to more accurately determine geometries of the parking areas within environments. For instance, sensor data (e.g., image data, etc.) may be processed using one or more edge detection techniques to determine edge features (e.g., two-dimensional pixels, three-dimensional points, etc.) associated with an environment that includes a parking area. A predicted geometry associated with the parking area, as determined using one or more machine learning models, may then be used to filter the edge features in order to identify a portion of the edge features that represent the parking area. One or more optimization techniques may then be used to determine the final geometry associated with the parking area based at least on the filtered edge features.

A parking assistance device for assisting automatic parking of a vehicle includes a determination unit, an obstacle acquisition unit, a prediction unit, and a notification unit. The determination unit determines a parking area for the automatic parking. The obstacle acquisition unit acquires an obstacle around the determined parking area before the automatic parking. The prediction unit predicts an openable amount, by which a door of the vehicle is openable, based on a detection result of the obstacle acquisition unit when the vehicle is to be automatically parked in the determined parking area. The notification unit notifies the openable amount predicted by the prediction unit.

The invention relates to the field of computer vision, in particular to an intelligent parking system based on a computer vision algorithm, which is provided with a data acquisition module, a resource integration module, an anomaly analysis module, a parking matching module and a parking guide module, determines a vehicle running value and an actual parking effective value, calculates a parking permission characterization value, and displays the parking permission characterization value. Determining whether a parking position for a target vehicle exists in the parking area; determining a target parking area; dividing the target parking area into a plurality of sub-areas; analyzing data information corresponding to the target parking area; and parking guidance is carried out according to the judgment result of the preset condition, and intelligent parking is completed. According to the invention, parking guidance is carried out by determining the target parking area, analyzing the corresponding abnormal data and comparing with the parking related area of the target vehicle, so that the smoothness of the parking path and the parking efficiency are improved.

The invention provides a parking control method of an automatic driving articulated vehicle and the automatic driving vehicle, and the method comprises the steps: constructing a grid map of a to-be-parked area, constructing a heuristic map based on the grid map, the heuristic map being a map data structure for providing path search guide information for each grid unit in the grid map, and the grid units being provided with path search guide information for the to-be-parked area in the to-be-parked area in the to-be-parked area in the to-be-parked area. Comprising a heuristic flow field structure used for calculating a parking end point, a heuristic distance field structure used for calculating obstacle avoidance and a gradient field structure used for calculating an obstacle avoidance direction. And performing parking path search based on the heuristic map and a vehicle model of the articulated vehicle to control the articulated vehicle to perform automatic parking according to the parking path. According to the method and the device, the technical problem that the real-time requirement of an actual parking task is difficult to meet due to low path searching efficiency during parking of an automatic driving articulated vehicle in the related technology is solved, and the technical effect of efficient parking is further achieved.

This invention relates to a barrier system (1) used to prevent unauthorized individuals from parking in open or closed parking areas, comprising at least one lower body (2) for placement on a vehicle parking space, at least one barrier (3) rotatably connected to the lower body (2), and a support bracket (4) rotatably connected to the barrier (3) and adapted to contact the ground or lower body (2) with the rotational movement of the barrier (3) to limit the rotational movement of the barrier (3).

The invention provides a substation intelligent operation and maintenance method and cockpit system based on Gaussian model and Internet of Things data fusion, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out Gaussian point cloud modeling based on substation information, and obtaining an initial three-dimensional Gaussian point cloud model, associating the equipment attribute information with the initial three-dimensional Gaussian point cloud model based on equipment monomer identification to obtain a target three-dimensional Gaussian point cloud model; based on the parking area and the vehicle parameters of the transformer substation, simulating initial operation and maintenance parameters of the operation vehicle in the transformer substation, and based on the target three-dimensional Gaussian point cloud model and the initial operation and maintenance parameters, carrying out operation risk detection to obtain a risk detection result; optimizing the initial operation and maintenance parameters based on the risk detection result to obtain optimized operation and maintenance parameters, and generating an electronic operation and maintenance fence based on the optimized operation and maintenance parameters; and loading the optimized operation and maintenance parameters and the electronic operation and maintenance fence to the target three-dimensional Gaussian point cloud model for operation and maintenance safety early warning. The safety and efficiency of the maintenance operation of the transformer substation are improved.

In order to propose an improved parking system which enables a parking process for cableway vehicles in a parking area at a cableway station to be carried out as simply and quickly as possible, in the parking system there is provided a transfer device for transferring cableway vehicles from an input track onto at least two parking tracks, the transfer device having a displacement device which is displaceable along a fixed guide device between a first transfer position and a second transfer position, the displacement device having a first track section and a second track section, in the first transfer position of the displacement device a cableway vehicle is displaceable from the first track section onto a first parking track and a cableway vehicle is displaceable from the input track onto the second track, and in the second transfer position of the displacement device a cableway vehicle is displaceable from the input track onto the first track section and a cableway vehicle is displaceable from the second track section onto a second parking track.

The invention provides a group target trend prediction method and device based on sequence pattern mining, relates to the technical field of remote sensing target intelligent interpretation, and aims to solve the technical problems of single data source, weak multi-source data relevance, difficulty in accurately predicting cluster target trend and the like in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps: preprocessing multi-source data of a target group, and extracting time sequence data related to a navigation track and a parking area of the target group; according to the time sequence data, extracting a target group trajectory sequence pattern with the support degree higher than a support degree threshold value by using a sequence pattern mining model; based on the time-space correlation characteristics of each target trajectory in the target group trajectory sequence mode, a time sequence event atlas is generated, and the time sequence event atlas represents the behavior evolution path and state conversion relation of the group target at different time points and space points; and predicting the behavior trend of the group target by using a pre-trained long-short-term memory network model according to the time sequence event graph.

The invention discloses a parking control method and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of vehicles. The method comprises the steps that in response to an automatic parking request sent by a target vehicle, vehicle end sensing data collected by the target vehicle and road end sensing data collected by road end equipment in a parking area corresponding to the automatic parking request are obtained; performing fusion processing on the vehicle end sensing data and the road end sensing data to generate global environment information corresponding to the parking area; based on the global environment information, distributing a target parking space for the target vehicle, and planning a global parking path leading to the target parking space; performing cooperative scheduling by using the global parking path and the real-time state information of the associated vehicle, and generating a cooperative control instruction; and sending the global parking path and the cooperative control instruction to the target vehicle to control the target vehicle to perform automatic parking. The technical problems that the view field is limited and the cooperation efficiency is low due to the fact that an existing automatic parking technology depends on bicycle perception are solved.

The application particularly relates to a vehicle illegal parking detection method based on a high-complexity detection scene in a city, which comprises the following steps: collecting a vehicle-mounted video through a task vehicle; detecting a target vehicle in each video frame of the vehicle-mounted video, tracking the target vehicle by combining the motion features and appearance features of the target vehicle, and then outputting a vehicle image of the target vehicle tracked in continuous video frames; calculating the relative distance change between the target vehicle and the task vehicle by combining the dynamic visual ranging and the vehicle image, and judging whether the target vehicle is in a parking state by combining a parking judgment threshold; judging whether the target vehicle is located in a no-parking area according to the real-time position of the task vehicle, and taking the target vehicle in the parking state and located in the no-parking area as an illegal parking vehicle; and performing license plate recognition on the illegal parking vehicle. The application can adapt to the high-loss of vehicle tracking targets and the high dynamics of illegal parking judgment scenes in the high-complexity detection scene in the city, and can simultaneously ensure the accuracy and stability of the illegal parking detection of urban roads.

An Augmented Reality (AR) display device interoperating with a vehicle and a method for operating the same are disclosed. An AR display device according to the present disclosure can provide an intuitive AR route to a parking available area or charging available area in a parking lot or charging station based on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) sensing data of a vehicle and / or control data of a parking lot / charging station. It is recognized that the vehicle has arrived in from of a selected parking space or charger, and an AR graphic interface can be changed in real time to sequentially guide forward driving, a change point to reverse driving, and reverse driving to the vehicle in correspondence to a current driving state of the vehicle, such that the vehicle can be parked accurately in the parking space or in front of the charger.

The application discloses a charging parking space management system and a charging parking space management method, and belongs to the technical field of transportation. The system comprises a charging pile device and a ground pile device, a charging parking area is at least partially located between the charging pile device and the ground pile device, the charging pile device comprises a controller and an infrared sensor connected in signal, and the ground pile device comprises a lifting mechanism connected in signal with the controller. The infrared sensor is used for generating a parking signal in response to a vehicle parking in the charging parking area, and sending the parking signal to the controller. The lifting mechanism is used for rising from the ground to the ground to block the vehicle from driving away from the charging parking area based on the parking signal sent by the controller. The lifting mechanism is also used for descending from the ground to the ground to allow the vehicle to drive away from the charging parking area based on the driving-away-allowing signal sent by the controller. The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can improve the utilization rate of the charging pile.

The embodiment of the application discloses a vehicle illegal parking prompting method and system, relates to the technical field of vehicles, and the vehicle illegal parking prompting method comprises the following steps: when a vehicle is parked, sending position information of the vehicle to a server, so that the server judges whether the vehicle is located in an illegal parking area; receiving illegal parking indication information sent by the server according to the vehicle located in the illegal parking area; if the illegal parking indication information indicates that the vehicle is located in the illegal parking area, determining a target illegal parking prompting mode according to a current confidence degree; and outputting corresponding prompting information according to the target illegal parking prompting mode, and the prompting information is used at least for prompting a user that the vehicle is located in the illegal parking area. The scheme provided in the application can avoid the situation that the user does not know that the area cannot be parked when parking, so that the user faces the risk of being fined after parking.

The present application relates to the technical field of seedling raising, and specifically discloses a planting device, which comprises a workbench, the workbench comprises a parking area and a containing area, the parking area and the containing area are arranged side by side along a sowing direction, the containing area is provided with a containing groove, and a seedling raising plug tray can be placed in the containing groove; the pressure pit wheel comprises a wheel body and a plurality of pressure pit protrusions which are uniformly distributed on the periphery of the wheel body, and the pressure pit wheel is rotationally arranged on a support; a sowing assembly is arranged on the support, and the sowing assembly comprises a sowing box body and a sowing wheel which is arranged below a sowing port of the sowing box body; a plurality of seed grooves are uniformly distributed on the periphery of the sowing wheel, and the seed grooves are used for accommodating seeds. The above-mentioned arrangement is beneficial to cultivating seedlings with consistent height, improving the quality of seedlings, achieving uniformity of sowing, avoiding over-sowing and missed sowing, avoiding hand contact with seeds in the sowing process, avoiding pollution of seeds, and improving the germination rate of seeds.

The invention provides an intelligent building management method and device based on multi-source data fusion, and relates to the technical field of the Internet of Things, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a multi-source data set of a target building through a sensor network, the multi-source data set comprises a parking area image set outside the target building, a state data set inside the target building and a canteen area image set inside the target building; inputting the parking area image set into a vehicle illegal parking detection model for vehicle illegal parking detection to obtain a vehicle illegal parking detection result; inputting the state data set into a building energy consumption prediction model for building energy consumption prediction to obtain a building energy consumption prediction result; inputting the canteen area image set into a face recognition model for face recognition and dining authorization judgment to obtain a dining authorization result; and according to the vehicle illegal parking detection result, carrying out illegal parking alarm on the user of the illegal parking vehicle, carrying out power adjustment on the equipment of the target building according to the building energy consumption prediction result, and carrying out unauthorized alarm according to the dining authorization result.

The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle cleaning task execution method and device for a photovoltaic power station, equipment and a medium, and relates to the technical field of photovoltaics, and the method comprises the steps: dividing a total cleaning route of the photovoltaic power station into cleaning sub-routes according to the unit operation length of an unmanned aerial vehicle; determining a fixed or non-fixed target position optimization mode of a vehicle-mounted nest parking point; establishing a photovoltaic power station cleaning task according to the target position optimization mode, and constructing a target time function corresponding to the photovoltaic power station cleaning task by using the starting point and the ending point of the cleaning sub-route; the dependent variable of the target time function is the time for completing the cleaning task of the photovoltaic power station; constructing a position optimization model taking the minimization of the target time function as a target, and iteratively searching a target optimal parking point position in the allowed parking area of the vehicle-mounted machine nest by using the position optimization model; and controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle to take water from the vehicle-mounted machine nest at the target optimal parking point position so as to execute a photovoltaic power station cleaning task. And the unmanned aerial vehicle cleaning task execution efficiency of the photovoltaic power station is improved.

The parking assistance device is provided with: a parking-enabled area calculation unit that calculates a parking-enabled area in which a vehicle can be parked on the basis of an area in which the vehicle can travel and a three-dimensional shape of an object detected by a detection unit from information about the surroundings of the vehicle; a ride ease calculation unit that calculates the ride ease of the ride object from the vehicle or from the vehicle, at least on the basis of the three-dimensional shape of the object; and an assistance content generation unit that calculates a parking position at which the vehicle is parked on the basis of the ease of boarding and alighting and the parking-enabled area, and generates assistance content that assists the parking of the vehicle on the basis of the parking position.

The invention belongs to the technical field of battery replacement, and discloses a battery replacement station which comprises a parking area and an equipment area which are arranged in parallel, the parking area is used for parking a battery replacement vehicle and is provided with a battery replacement area for battery dismounting or mounting operation, and the equipment area is used for mounting battery replacement related equipment. The equipment area comprises battery replacing equipment arranged adjacent to the battery replacing area and a battery storage area at least arranged on one side of the battery replacing equipment in the driving direction of the battery replacing vehicle, the battery storage area comprises a plurality of battery bins sequentially arranged in the vertical direction, and the battery replacing equipment is used for executing battery disassembling or assembling operation on the battery replacing vehicle; and battery transfer operation is carried out among the plurality of battery cabins or between the battery cabins and the battery replacing vehicle. Functional partitions are optimized, the battery replacing station can be conveniently arranged according to the functional partitions, a plurality of battery bins are arranged in a battery storage area in the vertical direction, the number of stored batteries is increased, and therefore it is guaranteed that the batteries of the sufficient number and multiple specifications can be used by battery replacing vehicles, and the situation that the battery replacing vehicles wait for too long in a parking area is avoided.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of fire-fighting equipment, provide a new energy electric automobile fire-fighting equipment for parking area, set up the body sealing mechanism through position adjusting assembly on the moving mechanism, position adjusting assembly includes, sets up the first operating lever on the moving mechanism, and sets up the second operating lever through the first rotary connecting piece on the first operating lever, the one end of second operating lever is away from the first operating lever, sets up the body sealing mechanism through the second rotary connecting piece, when the fire of vehicle, the fire-fighting equipment at the fire truck position or other position just, moves to the fire vehicle place with the help of moving mechanism, through operating the first operating lever and the second operating lever, the body sealing mechanism is moved to the fire vehicle place, seals at the fire vehicle place, to reach the purpose of fire extinguishing and preventing the spread of fire, the fire-fighting equipment does not need to set up on each parking stall, has reduced the cost and the occupied area to the parking lot.

The invention discloses an intelligent parking management method and system based on video recognition, and relates to the technical field of video recognition, and the method comprises the steps: collecting a monitoring video stream of a target parking region, extracting vehicle feature data, license plate feature data and parking space feature data in the monitoring video stream, and storing the vehicle feature data, the license plate feature data and the parking space feature data in the target parking region; determining a vehicle driving track according to the vehicle feature data, the license plate feature data and the parking space feature data, determining a vehicle parking behavior based on the driving track, performing parking behavior analysis on the vehicle parking behavior, identifying an abnormal parking behavior and a parking space occupation state, and when the abnormal parking behavior or the parking space occupation is abnormal, sending the abnormal parking behavior to the parking space. And generating a parking management instruction, and executing a corresponding parking management operation according to the parking management instruction. Through the mode, the problem of low parking efficiency caused by inaccurate judgment of vehicle-parking space relevance and lagging of abnormal behavior detection is solved.

The invention relates to a method for controlling a host vehicle, comprising the following steps: receiving a status notification signal from the surroundings of the host vehicle by means of a wireless communication technique, said status notification signal indicating a special operating situation of at least one other vehicle in the surroundings of the host vehicle; a state sensing signal about a target vehicle is obtained by means of an environment sensor of the vehicle, the target vehicle is located in an adjacent lane or an adjacent roadside parking area of the vehicle, and the state sensing signal indicates that an indicator lamp on at least one side of the target vehicle is activated; identifying a starting intention or a lane changing intention of the target vehicle based on the state notification signal and the state sensing signal; and when it is recognized that the target vehicle does not have the starting intention or the lane changing intention, at least one response operation of the vehicle is triggered. The application also proposes an apparatus for controlling a host vehicle and a computer program product.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a parking area information determination method and device and electronic equipment. According to the embodiment of the invention, parking area information including a plurality of pre-divided parking areas is obtained, parking simulation is carried out on each parking area to obtain a parking simulation result of each parking area, and parking parameters of each parking area are determined according to each parking simulation result. And determining a plurality of real vehicle test tasks according to the parking areas of which the parking parameters meet the preset value range, and further determining target parking area information according to real vehicle execution results of the real vehicle test tasks. Therefore, according to the embodiment of the invention, the initial parking difficulty level of each parking area can be determined through the simulation task, and the corresponding parking area is screened based on the initial parking difficulty level to execute the real vehicle test task so as to determine the available target parking area, so that the accuracy and the determination efficiency of the available target parking area are improved.

The application discloses a lawn mower self-cleaning base station with a cleaning assembly and a lawn mower cleaning method. The lawn mower self-cleaning base station comprises a base station main body, a cleaning assembly and a control assembly. The base station main body has a parking area for parking the lawn mower and a clamping position for clamping the wheels of the lawn mower. The cleaning assembly comprises a spraying mechanism and a brushing mechanism. The spraying mechanism comprises a water spraying pump and a plurality of water spraying ports in communication with the water spraying pump. The brushing mechanism comprises a plurality of cleaning brush units corresponding to the wheels of the lawn mower. The cleaning brush unit comprises a frame body, a brush body and a separate driving device, and the brush body is in transmission connection with the output end of the driving device. The control assembly can individually control the driving device of each cleaning brush unit. This design not only significantly improves the cleaning effect and resource utilization efficiency, but also avoids the problem that the whole machine stops running due to the clamping or failure of individual roller brushes in the traditional linkage driving mode, greatly improving the operation reliability and fault tolerance of the system.

The application relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle parking apron, which comprises a fixed plate, a first folding plate, an auxiliary connecting plate and a second folding plate, the fixed plate is hinged with the first folding plate, the first folding plate is hinged with the auxiliary connecting plate, and the auxiliary connecting plate is hinged with the second folding plate; a first transmission assembly is connected with the bottom surface of the first folding plate through a first C-shaped rocker; the first transmission assembly drives the first C-shaped rocker to drive the first folding plate to be folded to the top plane of the fixed plate and drives the auxiliary connecting plate to be folded to the top plane of the second folding plate, thereby completing the first folding; a second transmission assembly is connected with the bottom surface of the second folding plate through a second C-shaped rocker; the second transmission assembly drives the second C-shaped rocker to drive the second folding plate and the auxiliary connecting plate folded on the second folding plate to be folded to the top plane of the fixed plate together, thereby completing the second folding. The application can realize the automatic secondary folding of the parking apron, the volume of the secondary folding reaches the minimum, the secondary folding has high portability, the top plane area of the secondary unfolding reaches the maximum, and the parking apron has a large parking area.

The application relates to the technical field of stereo garage, and particularly discloses a cloud street stereo garage, which comprises a base plate and a plurality of parking space frame assemblies, the parking space frame assemblies being arranged on the upper portion of the base plate and used for supporting the automobile, a supporting assembly arranged on the upper portion of the base plate and used for supporting the plurality of parking space frame assemblies, a first lifting assembly arranged on the middle portion of the base plate and used for adjusting the position height of the parking space frame assemblies. The parking space frame assemblies are arranged, the automobile can be stably supported by the parking space frame assemblies, displacement of the vehicle during the storage and taking process is avoided, the number and arrangement spacing of the parking space frame assemblies can be flexibly adjusted according to the automobile quantity of the region, different scale parking demands can be adapted, the supporting assembly is arranged, the plurality of parking space frame assemblies can be supported by the supporting assembly, and therefore the space utilization efficiency of the parking area can be improved.

The invention relates to a method for the automated determination of the status of parking spaces (1), comprising the steps of: providing (S1) position information of parking spaces (1) in a central unit (3); transmitting (S2) the position information from the central unit (3) to a plurality of vehicles (5); continuously comparing (S3) each of the vehicles (5) its own current position with the position information; checking (S4) each of the vehicles (5) whether a parking space (1) is occupied; and if not: capturing (S5) an image of this parking space (1) with an environmental sensing unit of the vehicle (5) and transmitting the image to the central unit (3); evaluating (S6) the image by an analysis algorithm executed in the central unit (3) to determine the status of the parking space (1);Updating (S7) the position information by the central unit (3) and transmitting the updated position information to the multitude of vehicles (5).;