Abstract: A device is described for detecting the surroundings of a motor vehicle, including: one or multiple sensor units, each including one or multiple surroundings sensors for detecting the surroundings of a motor vehicle, and a communication interface for wirelessly transmitting surroundings sensor data, corresponding to the particular detection, to a data processing device via a wireless communications network, so that the data processing device may transmit the surroundings sensor data and/or surroundings data based on the surroundings sensor data to a cloud server via a further wireless communications network. Moreover, a motor vehicle, a method for detecting the surroundings of a motor vehicle, a method for processing a motor vehicle, a system for detecting the surroundings of a motor vehicle, and a computer program are described.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a setpoint trajectory to be traveled by a vehicle for being collision free, including carrying out a clearance measurement of vehicle surroundings with the aid of a surroundings sensor system to determine a clearance in the vehicle surroundings, carrying out an object measurement of the vehicle surroundings with the aid of the surroundings sensor system to determine objects in the vehicle surroundings, checking the setpoint trajectory for being collision free based on the determined clearance and the determined objects, and comparing particular results of the checks for being collision free to one another, an item of collision information being provided based on the comparison.

Abstract: A method for operating a plurality of vehicles includes sending over a communication network and to a first vehicle navigation data for an autonomous navigation of the first vehicle in a parking facility, the first vehicle being assigned as a guide vehicle to a second vehicle that is to autonomously follow the first vehicle, a target signal being sent to the second vehicle via the communication network while the second vehicle is following the guide vehicle during the autonomous navigation of the guide vehicle in the parking facility, the signal indicating that the second vehicle is to terminate the following and to park at a target position.

Abstract: A device for detecting motor vehicle surroundings, including: a parking control unit (PCU) (the PCU including a communication module), one or multiple sensor units, each including one or multiple surroundings sensors detecting the surroundings, and a communication interface for wired transmission of surroundings sensor data corresponding to the particular detection to the PCU, the communication module providing wired reception of the surroundings sensor data, the communication module transmitting the surroundings sensor data and/or surroundings data based on the surroundings sensor data to a data processing device via a wireless communication network so that the data processing device may transmit the surroundings sensor data and/or the surroundings data to a cloud server via a further wireless communication network.

Abstract: A device for sensing a motor vehicle environment (MVE), including: a parking control unit (PCU); a first data processing device (DP); at least one sensor unit (SU), each having at least one environment sensor(s) (ES) for sensing a MVE, and a communications interface (CI) for wired transmission of ES data; the PCU having a CI to receive the ES data; the first DP having a communications module (CM) to receive the ES data from at least one CI of the SU(s); the CM transmitting the ES data and environment data based on the ES data by a wireless communications network (WCN) to a second DP, so that it can transmit the ES data and/or environment data via another WCN to a Cloud server. Also described is a motor vehicle, a method for MVE sensing, a method for adapting a motor vehicle, a system for MVE sensing, and a computer program.

Abstract: A device for detecting the surroundings of a motor vehicle includes a parking control unit, a first data processing device, and one or more sensor units that each includes one or more surroundings sensors for detecting the surroundings of a motor vehicle. The parking control unit is connected between the sensor units and the first data processing device.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle, the vehicle being guided in fully automated fashion, and if an error is detected during the fully automated guidance, a safe state being selected from a plurality of safe states as a function of one parameter, the vehicle being guided in fully automated fashion into the selected safe state. Also described is an apparatus for operating a vehicle, as well as to a computer program.

Abstract: A method for controlling a third motor vehicle, includes scanning, by a first motor vehicle, the surroundings of the first motor vehicle and determining an assumption for a traffic situation based on the scanned information; transmitting the assumption thus determined from the first motor vehicle to a central office, scanning, by a second motor vehicle, the surroundings of the second motor vehicle and determining an assumption for a traffic situation based on the scanned information, transmitting the assumption thus determined from the second motor vehicle to a central office, whereupon the surroundings of the first and a the second motor vehicle overlap, determining, by the central office, a traffic situation in the area of the first and second motor vehicles on the basis of the transmitted information and transmitting the traffic situation thus determined to a third motor vehicle to enable prompt consideration of the traffic situation thus determined.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle, the vehicle driving autonomously or remotely controlled within a manufacturing system for manufacturing vehicles.

Abstract: A method is described for controlling traffic inside a parking facility, including the following steps: —dividing the parking facility into multiple tiles, —detecting the multiple tiles with the aid of one or multiple surroundings sensor(s) to ascertain surroundings sensor data corresponding to the detection, —ascertaining a particular occupancy state of the multiple tiles based on the surroundings sensor data, —controlling traffic inside the parking facility based on the ascertained occupancy states. Further, a device is described for controlling traffic inside a parking facility. Also described are a parking facility for motor vehicles, and a computer program.

Abstract: A method is described for supporting a driverless driving of a motor vehicle in a parking facility having a plurality of parking spaces, including the following steps: monitoring the state of occupancy of each of the plurality of parking spaces in order to ascertain free parking spaces, ascertaining a parking space for the motor vehicle based on the monitoring of the state of occupancy of each of the plurality of parking spaces, so that a first route from a motor vehicle drop-off area of the parking facility to the ascertained parking space is determined as a function of the monitoring of the state of occupancy of each of the plurality of parking spaces, communication of remote control commands corresponding to the determined first route to the motor vehicle via a wireless communication network, in order to guide the motor vehicle from the motor vehicle drop-off area to the ascertained parking space in at least partially remote-controlled fashion, and/or communication of the determined first route to the moto

Abstract: A method for checking for errors of a sensor system, within a vehicle, for detecting an occupancy state of a parking space. The method includes providing a reference data set for a parking space ascertained independently of the sensor system to be checked, the reference data set including a reference occupancy state of the parking space which is assigned a first detection point in time; receiving an occupancy state of the parking space detected with the aid of the sensor system via a communication network which is assigned a second detection point in time; a time difference between the first and second detection points in time is compared to a threshold value, and when the ascertained time difference is less than or less than/equal to the threshold value, the detected occupancy state of the parking space is compared to the reference occupancy state to check the sensor system for errors.

Abstract: A method for the automatic execution of at least one driving function of a motor vehicle, in which it is checked whether the driver uses an unapproved electronic device. In the event that the driver is using an unapproved electronic device, a warning is output to the driver.

Abstract: A method (and corresponding parking facility management server, parking system, and computer program) for carrying out an automatic parking process of a vehicle includes a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility being sent to a parking facility management server via a communication network, navigation data for an autonomous navigation to the reserved parking position corresponding to the reservation request being received by the vehicle via the communication network, and the vehicle autonomously navigating in the parking facility to the reserved parking position based on the navigation data. It is preferably provided that the vehicle autonomously pulls into the parking position, pulls out of this parking position, and travels back to a drop-off position or pick-up position, from which a driver of the vehicle may pick up the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle includes the vehicle receiving a start signal for starting the vehicle via a communication network, and responding to the start signal only when one or multiple predetermined conditions are met. Additionally, a device for operating a vehicle, a parking facility management server, and a computer program can be provided for restricting a response to a start signal to only when the one or multiple predetermined conditions are met.

Abstract: A method, which can be performed by a system executing instructions on a computer-readable medium, for generating space to park for a motor vehicle includes determining a need for a parking area in a geographic area that includes a roadway, determining a need for road space for the roadway, determining, based on the determined need for the parking area and the determined need for road space, whether a lateral region of the roadway should be set for use as a parking area, and, in response to a positive result of the determination, setting the lateral region of the roadway for use as the parking area.

Abstract: A method for loading a vehicle, wherein, based on a digital loading station map of a loading station and a digital transport vehicle map of a transport vehicle, the vehicle drives autonomously from the loading station onto the transport vehicle or vice versa. A loading management system, a loading station, and a computer program are also described.

Abstract: A highly automated driving function for controlling a motor vehicle includes a plurality of function components. A method for controlling the motor vehicle includes steps of executing the driving function using a first function component, comparing the behavior of the first function component to a specified behavior, ascertaining that the behavior of the first function component deviates from the specified behavior, ascertaining a first accident risk if the driving function continues to be executed with the aid of the first function component, ascertaining a second accident risk if the execution of the driving function continues with the aid of a second function component, and executing the driving function with the aid of the particular function component whose allocated accident risk is the lowest.

Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle driving driverlessly within a parking facility includes determining, for a predefined target trajectory to be traversed by the motor vehicle within the parking facility, that point in the target trajectory until which safe driverless driving of the motor vehicle is possible; and driverlessly driving the motor vehicle, based on the predefined target trajectory, out to the determined point.

Abstract: A method for reducing a risk of a collision of a driving motor vehicle with an object, including determining a first safety area, which defines a first delimited subarea of a current surroundings of the driving motor vehicle, determining a second safety area, which defines a second delimited subarea of the current surroundings of the driving motor vehicle, the second subarea being at a greater distance from the motor vehicle than the first subarea, monitoring the first and second subareas for an object moving into the respective safety area and/or for an object located within the respective safety area, controlling a stoppage of the motor vehicle if the monitoring has determined that an object is located within the first safety area, to stop the motor vehicle, and controlling a performance of one or several safety actions if the monitoring determines that an object is located within the second safety area.