VALET PARKING METHOD AND VALET PARKING SYSTEM
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Abstract
A method for automatically transporting a vehicle from a transfer zone to an assigned parking space within a predefined parking facility with the aid of a parking facility monitoring system including at least one stationary sensor unit, and pieces of information about the present vehicle position being transmitted to a central control unit. Certain areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy, and other areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with lesser accuracy, overlapping areas of trajectories of other vehicles with a trajectory being determined by the central control unit, and the trajectory being adapted in such a way that an overlapping area ends up in an area of the parking facility which is monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy.
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22 Claims
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12. A valet parking system for automatically transporting a vehicle from a transfer zone to an assigned parking space within a predefined parking facility and for automatically unparking and transporting the vehicle to a pick-up zone, comprising:
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a central control unit; a parking facility monitoring system including at least one stationary sensor unit, the parking facility monitoring system being designed to localize the vehicles driving within the predefined parking facility and to transmit pieces of information about the present vehicle position to the central control unit, the central control unit being designed to transmit pieces of information to the vehicle so that the vehicle may be autonomously guided along a trajectory within the parking facility based on the pieces of information, the at least one stationary sensor unit including sensor units situated in such a way that certain areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy, and other areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with lesser accuracy; wherein the central control unit is configured to determine overlapping areas of trajectories of other vehicles with the trajectory and to adapt the trajectory in such a way that an overlapping area ends up in an area of the parking facility which is monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A parking facility including a valet parking system, the valet parking system for automatically transporting a vehicle from a transfer zone to an assigned parking space within a predefined parking facility and for automatically unparking and transporting the vehicle to a pick-up zone, the valet parking system comprising:
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a central control unit; a parking facility monitoring system including at least one stationary sensor unit, the parking facility monitoring system being designed to localize the vehicles driving within the predefined parking facility and to transmit pieces of information about the present vehicle position to the central control unit, the central control unit being designed to transmit pieces of information to the vehicle so that the vehicle may be autonomously guided along a trajectory within the parking facility based on the pieces of information, the at least one stationary sensor unit including sensor units situated in such a way that certain areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy, and other areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with lesser accuracy; wherein the central control unit is configured to determine overlapping areas of trajectories of other vehicles with the trajectory and to adapt the trajectory in such a way that an overlapping area ends up in an area of the parking facility which is monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy.
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21. A method for automatically transporting a vehicle from a transfer zone to an assigned parking space within a predefined parking facility and for automatically unparking and transporting the vehicle to a pick-up zone, the vehicle driving within the predefined parking facility being localized with the aid of a parking facility monitoring system including at least one stationary sensor unit, and pieces of information about the present vehicle position being transmitted to a central control unit, the central control unit transmitting pieces of information to the vehicle so that the vehicle may be autonomously guided along a trajectory within the parking facility based on the pieces of information, wherein the a least one stationary sensor unit including sensor units situated in such a way that certain areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy, and other areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with lesser accuracy, the method comprising:
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determining, by the central control unit, overlapping areas of trajectories of other vehicles with the trajectory; and adapting the trajectory in such a way that an overlapping area ends up in an area of the parking facility which is monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy.
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22. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium on which is stored a computer program including program code for automatically transporting a vehicle from a transfer zone to an assigned parking space within a predefined parking facility and for automatically unparking and transporting the vehicle to a pick-up zone, the vehicle driving within the predefined parking facility being localized with the aid of a parking facility monitoring system including at least one stationary sensor unit, and pieces of information about the present vehicle position being transmitted to a central control unit, the central control unit transmitting pieces of information to the vehicle so that the vehicle may be autonomously guided along a trajectory within the parking facility based on the pieces of information, wherein the a least one stationary sensor unit including sensor units situated in such a way that certain areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy, and other areas of the parking facility are monitored by the sensor units with lesser accuracy, the program code, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform:
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determining, by the central control unit, overlapping areas of trajectories of other vehicles with the trajectory; and adapting the trajectory in such a way that an overlapping area ends up in an area of the parking facility which is monitored by the sensor units with high accuracy.
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Specification