Method and system for combining sensor data
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1. A method for combining sensor data collected by at least two sensors coupled to at least one application, comprisingmonitoring, using at least one of the at least two sensors, driver behaviour and providing driver-related sensor data of the driver-related behaviour,monitoring, using at least one external sensor of the at least two sensors that is not monitoring the driver behaviour and providing sensor data not related to driver-related behaviour,feeding sensor data of the at least two sensors to a sensor fusion unit and combining and/or exchanging the sensor data of the at least two sensors in the fusion unit when respective measurement errors of the data are uncorrelated in time and to each other andtransmitting the sensor data to one or more applications subsequent to the sensor fusion unit, and correlating in time estimation errors after processing in the sensor fusion unit.
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A method is provided for combining sensor data collected by at least two sensors coupled to at least one application, wherein at least one of the sensors provides driver-related sensor data of a driver-related behavior and at least one external sensor provides sensor date not related to driver-related behavior. The sensor data of the at least two sensors are combined as the respective measurement errors of the data are uncorrelated in time with respect to the at least one application.
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1. A method for combining sensor data collected by at least two sensors coupled to at least one application, comprising
monitoring, using at least one of the at least two sensors, driver behaviour and providing driver-related sensor data of the driver-related behaviour, monitoring, using at least one external sensor of the at least two sensors that is not monitoring the driver behaviour and providing sensor data not related to driver-related behaviour, feeding sensor data of the at least two sensors to a sensor fusion unit and combining and/or exchanging the sensor data of the at least two sensors in the fusion unit when respective measurement errors of the data are uncorrelated in time and to each other and transmitting the sensor data to one or more applications subsequent to the sensor fusion unit, and correlating in time estimation errors after processing in the sensor fusion unit.
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