Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicular radar system with automatic sensor alignment
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Application No.: US16801605Application Date: 2020-02-26
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Publication No.: US11333739B2Publication Date: 2022-05-17
- Inventor: Helmut Arnold Hardow Wodrich , Holger Hess , Sebastian Pliefke , Walter Gordon Woodington
- Applicant: Magna Electronics Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Auburn Hills
- Agency: Honigman LLP
- Main IPC: G01S7/40
- IPC: G01S7/40 ; G01S13/931

Abstract:
A method for calibrating a vehicular sensing system includes disposing the sensing system at a vehicle, with the sensing system including at least two radar sensors disposed at the vehicle so as to have respective fields of sensing exterior of the vehicle. At least one spherical radar reflector is disposed at a position exterior the vehicle where the fields of sensing of the at least two radar sensors overlap. A calibration mode of the sensing system is entered, and calibration radio waves are transmitted by at least one transmitter, and reflected calibration radio waves are received by receivers of the at least two radar sensors. The reflected calibration radio waves include the calibration radio waves reflected off the at least one spherical radar reflector. A controller calibrates the sensing system responsive to processing the received reflected calibration radio waves.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200271755A1 VEHICULAR RADAR SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC SENSOR ALIGNMENT Public/Granted day:2020-08-27
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