Abstract: A device for mounting a dual rail on a vehicle includes an elastic cushion and a mounting bracket. The elastic cushion includes a first and a second cavity for receiving receive a first rail or a second rail of the dual rail. The elastic cushion further includes at least one slot for enabling a lateral insertion of both rails of the dual rail into the cavities. The mounting bracket includes a recess for receiving the elastic cushion and a mounting mechanism for mounting the mounting bracket on a vehicle. The device further includes a fastening mechanism for fastening the mounting bracket on the elastic cushion.

Abstract: The power supply control apparatus performs power supply control of a sensor used in the driving support apparatus. The power supply control apparatus comprises a power supply control unit. The power supply control unit performs power supply reset of a plurality of sensors when it is determined that one of the driving support functions other than one of the driving support functions using a malfunctioning sensor is in inoperative. The power supply control unit does not perform power supply reset of the plurality of sensors when it is determined that one of the driving support functions other than one of the driving support functions using the malfunctioning sensor is operative.

Abstract: A vehicle electrical distribution system includes an electrical box having at least one power outlet. The electrical box is configured to be moved between a stowed position where the electrical box is housed within a compartment of a vehicle, and an deployed position where the electrical box is outside the compartment.

Abstract: An AC electrical system for a vehicle and methods of operating the same are provided. In one aspect, an AC electrical system includes a first electric machine mechanically coupled with a first spool of a gas turbine engine and a second electric machine mechanically coupled with a second spool of the gas turbine engine. The system also includes a first AC bus and a second AC bus. A first electrical channel electrically couples the first electric machine to the first AC bus and a second electrical channel electrically couples the second electric machine to the second AC bus. The system also includes one or more connection links and one or more power converters for selectively electrically coupling the first and second electrical channels so that electrical power generated by one electric machine can be converted and shared with the other electric machine and electrical loads of the other channel.

Abstract: A vehicle providing a personalization setting function using a camera used for a face authentication system includes: a camera configured to have a field of view facing an outside of the vehicle; a communicator configured to wirelessly communicate with a remote controller of the vehicle; a storage storing a plurality of reference face images and a personalization setting corresponding to each of the plurality of reference face images; and a controller electrically connected to the camera, the communicator and the storage and configured to: detect the remote controller based on a signal received from the remote controller through the communicator; activate the camera based on the remote controller being detected; and control at least one electronic device of the vehicle according to a personalization setting corresponding to a first reference face image among the plurality of reference face images, based on a similarity score between the first reference face image and a first image obtained from the camera bei

Abstract: The guard member is a guard member that protects the front of a payload located under the floor of the vehicle. The guard member has a first oblique side inclined so as to extend downward from the front side toward the rear side of the vehicle, and a second oblique side inclined so as to extend laterally from the front side toward the rear side of the vehicle. When an angle between a horizontal straight line along a front-rear direction of the vehicle and the first oblique side is an angle ?, and an angle between the straight line and the second oblique side is an angle ?, a relationship of the angle ?>the angle ? is satisfied.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for crash detection on one or more mobile devices (e.g., smartwatch and/or smartphone). In some embodiments, a method comprises: detecting, with at least one processor, a crash event on a crash device; extracting, with the at least one processor, multimodal features from sensor data generated by multiple sensing modalities of the crash device; computing, with the at least one processor, a plurality of crash decisions based on a plurality of machine learning models applied to the multimodal features; and determining, with the at least one processor, that a severe vehicle crash has occurred involving the crash device based on the plurality of crash decisions and a severity model.

Abstract: Disclosed herein method and device for personalized active safety control. The method includes: generating input data including body information of a vehicle occupant and occupancy state information of the occupant; outputting initial control data of a restraint device of a vehicle based on collision data that responds to occurrence of a collision of the vehicle; producing injury risk information for each piece of adjustment restraint information by using a safety control model based on the adjustment restraint information, in which a variable adjustment parameter is applied to the initial control data, and the input data; generating, by the safety control model, optimal restraint control information among the adjustment restraint information, based on the injury risk information; and controlling the restraint device based on the optimal restraint control information.

Abstract: An occupant protection apparatus, to be applied to a vehicle, includes a contact estimator, a contact detector, an irreversible restrainer, and a control processor. The irreversible restrainer irreversibly restrains an occupant of the vehicle. The control processor controls an operation of the irreversible restrainer based on a signal from the contact estimator or the contact detector. The contact detector includes first and second contact detection units that detect the contact in a pre-crush zone and in a crushable zone, respectively. The control processor causes, when an estimation signal from the contact estimator is acquirable, the irreversible restrainer to operate based on a detection signal from the first contact detection unit. The control processor causes, when the estimation signal from the contact estimator is unacquirable, the irreversible restrainer to operate based on a detection signal from the second contact detection unit while referring to the estimation signal.

Abstract: An airbag maintains deployment performance of an airbag cushion installed in a structure for dividing an occupant compartment space. The airbag includes an airbag cushion that includes a plurality of deployment areas and a spacing part that is disposed at a position adjacent to the plurality of deployment areas and separates the plurality of deployment area from one another.

Abstract: To prevent outward gas leakage between the airbag cushion and inflator during expansion and deployment with a simple configuration. The present invention provides an airbag device including: an airbag cushion having at least two panels; an inflator that discharges gas inside the airbag cushion; a first piece extending from an edge of a first panel of the two panels that is folded in the middle into the airbag cushion; a second piece provided on a portion near the edge of a second panel facing the first piece inside the airbag cushion and sewn to the folded part of the folded first piece; and an insertion passage for the inflator formed from sewing the folded part and the second piece, and extending from inside the airbag cushion to outside.

Abstract: An igniter assembly includes: an ignition device including: an igniter including an ignition portion airtightly accommodating an ignition charge and a conductive portion that supplies an ignition current for igniting the ignition charge, an igniter holding portion having a tubular shape and holding the igniter, and a fixing member made of a resin, interposed between the igniter and the igniter holding portion, and fixing the igniter to the igniter holding portion; a case having a bottomed tubular shape and accommodating a first gas generating agent and the ignition portion of the igniter, and a partition wall partitioning an inside of the case into a space in which the igniter and the fixing member are disposed and a space in which the first gas generating agent is accommodated, the partition wall having moisture impermeability. The partition wall is fixed and in contact with the case.

Abstract: An occupant restraint system for retaining an occupant in a vehicle seat includes a support extending adjacent a back of the vehicle seat so that the back of the vehicle seat extends between the occupant and the support. At least one strap has first and second ends attached to the support. The at least one strap extends around the occupant and the back of the seat so that the back of the vehicle seat and the occupant are between the support and the at least one strap.

Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosures provides a computer-implemented method for applying user settings to a vehicle, the method comprising receiving user settings for a first vehicle, at a second vehicle, and locking access to the user settings on the second vehicle, the user settings being associated with a user; unlocking access to the user settings on the second vehicle based on: authenticating a user token associated with the user and the user settings, and verifying an identity of the user associated with the user token, and applying the user settings to the second vehicle based on synthesizing the user settings of the first vehicle to the second vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle digital key system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first communication module for broadcasting a first signal at a predetermined time interval, calculating, when a second signal corresponding to the first signal is received from a key fob, a distance to the key fob on the basis of the second signal, and switching, when the calculated distance is within a preconfigured first threshold, a second communication module from a sleep mode to a wakeup mode; a second communication module for switching a plurality of third communication modules from a sleep mode to a wakeup mode, and calculating a position of the key fob by using at least three third communication modules among the plurality of third communication modules; and a control unit for unlocking the door lock of a vehicle on the basis of the position of the key fob.

Abstract: A vehicle wiper device includes: a wiper motor; a control unit that drives the wiper motor to be reciprocally rotated and controls a rotation speed of the wiper motor; and a wiper reciprocally rotating to wipe a wiped surface of a vehicle with a blade rubber, in which a tilt direction of a lip part of the blade rubber changes when a rotation direction is reversed. The control unit accelerates a rotation speed of the wiper motor, in a first acceleration section, from 0 to a first speed which is a low speed at a first average acceleration, and to rapidly accelerate the rotation speed of the motor, in a first half of a second acceleration section, to reach a speed which is higher than the first speed and ½ times of a second speed at an average acceleration which is twice or more of the first average acceleration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition which is for a wiper blade and is for forming a coating layer for lowering the coefficient of friction of a wiper blade rubber base on glass, the coating composition including a lubricant additive and a solvent, wherein the lubricant additive is functionalized graphene capable of self-adhesion to the wiper blade rubber base.

Abstract: A method for repairing small surface imperfections on a vehicle body is provided that includes the application of an uncured layer to a thickness of up to 1.02 mm of a composition inclusive of a polyester resin, an acrylated urethane resin, a defoamer, and a particulate filler to the vehicle body or a cured putty thereon. The uncured layer is then exposed to actinic radiation to induce cure of the uncured layer to form a coating to fill the small surface imperfection on the vehicle body. A one component, UV-cured putty material for repairing small surface imperfections is also provides inclusive of a polyester resin, an acrylated urethane oligomer or polymer, a defoamer, a photoinitiator, and a particulate filler. The composition has an uncured viscosity of between 9,000 and 13,000 centiPoise.

Abstract: A vehicle jacking assembly for selectively raising a wheel of a vehicle for changing a tire includes a plurality of cylinders and an actuator. Each cylinder is configured to be coupled to a frame of a vehicle proximate to a respective wheel of the vehicle. The cylinder comprises a plurality of nested sections so that the cylinder is selectively extensible. The actuator is configured to be coupled to the vehicle and to be operationally coupled to an electrical circuit of the vehicle. The actuator is operationally coupled to the plurality of cylinders so that the actuator is positioned to selectively actuate a respective cylinder to extend the respective cylinder from the frame of the vehicle so that the respective cylinder contacts a surface. The respective cylinder thus is configured to raise an associated wheel of the vehicle from the surface, allowing a tire of the wheel to be changed.

Abstract: A stabilizer for a vehicle includes an actuator assembly configured to be coupled to a chassis of the vehicle and configured to lift the vehicle. The actuator assembly is coupled to a ground pad having a bottom surface configured to engage a support surface below the chassis when the actuator assembly lifts the vehicle. An alignment member is configured to be coupled the chassis. The alignment member is configured to limit rotation of the ground pad. The actuator assembly is configured to move a surface of the ground pad into engagement with the alignment member to cause rotation of the ground pad relative to the chassis.

Abstract: A moving body including a body, a wheel coupled to the body and configured to rotate relative to the body, and an auxiliary wheel connected to the body and configured to move upwards and downwards. The auxiliary wheel has an area protruding more downwards than the wheel when the auxiliary wheel is moved to a lowermost side.

Abstract: A pedal emulator including a housing having a first housing portion that defines a first chamber and a second housing portion that defines a second chamber, the second housing portion moveable relative to the first housing portion. The pedal emulator also includes a first spring that is compressed while the second housing portion travels a first distance relative to the first housing portion, a second spring that is compressed in parallel with the first spring after the second housing travels the first distance and while the second housing portion travels a second distance relative to the first housing portion, and a third spring that is compressed in parallel with the first spring and the second spring after the second housing portion travels the second distance and while the second housing portion travels a third distance relative to the first housing portion.

Abstract: A device for regulating pressure supplied to a railway pneumatic cylinder brake caliper via an upper solenoid valve for increasing pressure and a lower solenoid valve for relieving pressure, and including a pressure regulator configured to compare a first signal representative of the pressure measured in the caliper with a second signal representative of a reference pressure, control the opening of the upper solenoid valve when the value of the first signal is lower than that of the second signal, and on the other hand, the opening of lower solenoid valve, in the presence of an emergency braking request, the second signal being representative of the pressure value needed for the emergency braking, and in the absence of such a request, the second signal being obtained from a service braking input.

Abstract: A braking apparatus of a vehicle and a method of controlling the same are provided.

Abstract: A brake control system is for a vehicle containing an internal controller for outputting an internal control variable for at least one brake actuator. An interface receives an external control variable for the at least one brake actuator from an external controller. A decision circuit has at least two inputs for receiving the internal control variable and the external control variable and an output for outputting a control signal for the at least one brake actuator. The control signal depends on the received internal control variable and/or the received external control variable.

Abstract: A method for optimizing the meterability of brake force in an ABS braking with a brake-by-wire brake system. The method includes various steps. First, a driver brake request is sensed by a pedal force simulator. In addition, a trigger point (A) of an ABS braking is recognized. In the case of a recognized ABS braking, there is a correction of the sensed driver brake request such that, upon recognizing the trigger point (A) during a reduction of the sensed driver brake request, the corrected driver brake request is reduced to the extent that ABS braking is no longer present. The corrected driver brake request is subsequently implemented by building up a corresponding brake pressure in a brake device of the brake system.

Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a first fluid pressure generating device for generating a fluid pressure according to a brake operating amount, a second fluid pressure generating device for generating a fluid pressure by moving a piston with an electric actuator, and a switching valve switchable between a first state allowing communication between the first fluid pressure generating device and a vehicle behavior stabilizing device and a second state allowing communication between the second fluid pressure generating device and the vehicle behavior stabilizing device. A control device places the switching valve in the second state during execution of automatic brake control, and places the switching valve in the first state when a predetermined abnormality occurs in the vehicle, except that the control device places the switching valve in the second state when an abnormality including inability of the second fluid pressure generating device to generate the fluid pressure occurs.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for adapting a braking behaviour of a brake of a motor vehicle to a traffic situation, including: (i) adjusting a clearance of the brake to a value LK; (ii) determining the traffic situation; and (iii) adjusting the clearance to a value LA based on the determined traffic situation, wherein 0<LA<LK is satisfied.

Abstract: A brake force generator for a brake system having an electric motor for generating a drive speed. The electric motor cooperates with an input side of a planetary gearing, the planetary gearing including a ring gear, which is accommodated in a ring gear holder. Tolerance compensating elements are arranged between the ring gear and the ring gear holder in the axial direction, via which tolerance compensating elements the ring gear is held, without play, between the ring gear holder and a ring gear supporting element arranged on a side of the ring gear which is axially remote from the ring gear holder. The brake force generator additionally includes a hydraulic module connected to an output side of the planetary gearing to generate a brake pressure. An elastically hardening material is arranged between the ring gear and the ring gear holder to absorb axial forces of the ring gear.

Abstract: A diagnostic method performs a self-diagnosis of an electronically controllable pneumatic braking system for a commercial vehicle. The method includes: receiving a learning signal about the braking system; in response to the reception, putting the braking system into a learning mode and performing the steps: performing a predetermined first activity of the braking system with the commercial vehicle stationary or moving; detecting via a sensor arrangement a first learning system reaction of the braking system in response to the execution of the first activity; and storing the detected first learning system reaction as the first target system reaction in a memory. A braking system and a computer program are also disclosed.

Abstract: Proposed are a hybrid electric vehicle and a power control method for the hybrid electric vehicle. The power control method includes: determining an engine load region of the vehicle, learning an actual torque of an engine based on the amount of power generated by at least one motor corresponding to the engine load region among a plurality of motors provided in the hybrid electric vehicle, and compensating engine modeling torque based on the actual torque of the engine learned through the motor.

Abstract: A method for controlling driving of a hybrid electric vehicle includes collecting driving data while the hybrid electric vehicle is driven, determining whether the hybrid electric vehicle enters a first mode corresponding to emergency driving of the hybrid electric vehicle or a second mode corresponding to control in preparation for the emergency driving, and controlling the hybrid electric vehicle in accordance with a mode that the hybrid electric vehicle enters among the first mode and the second mode.

Abstract: A method and a system for the at least partially automated parking of a motor vehicle, wherein a trajectory is provided, the motor vehicle is driven in an at least partially automated manner along the trajectory, and the trajectory is displayed on a display device with an overview map of an environment. Furthermore, by at least one camera, environment regions of the environment are captured as respective image data, at least some of which are saved allocated to the related environment regions, wherein at the time of display of the overview map, all of the image data saved up until this point in time are displayed in corresponding display regions on the overview map.

Abstract: A method for sensor fusion for a vehicle, includes determining a first point corresponding to a closest point of a target object from the vehicle with respect to a potential collision based on a LiDAR track thereof and a heading of the vehicle, determining a second point corresponding to a closest point of the target object from the vehicle with respect to a potential collision based on a sensor fusion track, and updating the sensor fusion track based on the first point and the second point.

Abstract: This document discloses system, method, and computer program product embodiments for operating a vehicle. For example, the method includes: obtaining a vehicle trajectory for the vehicle and a possible object trajectory for a moving object; analyzing the vehicle trajectory and the possible object trajectory to identify a time interval in which a footprint of the vehicle overlaps laterally with a footprint of the object; generating a mover raw margin in the time interval by shifting the footprint of the vehicle laterally until contact is made with the footprint of the object; obtaining a crossing time associated with each point in the mover raw margin; and generating a mover strong boundary by laterally shifting point(s) of the mover raw margin in the direction towards the vehicle when the crossing time(s) associated with the point(s) is(are) equal to or less than a threshold time.

Abstract: A lane keep assist system for an automotive vehicle includes an electric power steering assembly that is responsive to an output of the control system, the motor applying a torque to a part of a steering gear to steer the vehicle along a highway. The lane keep assist system assists a driver in keeping the vehicle in a lane of a highway, in which the control circuit comprises A PID Controller which receives at an input a target lane position for the closed-loop control system and provides as an output a control signal for a motor of the electric power steering assembly. The controller is arranged in a closed loop with the motor configured to minimise an error value indicative of the difference between the target lane position and the actual lane position of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for steering assistance, the method may include obtaining by vehicle camera, an image of an environment of the vehicle; feeding the image to a machine learning process; outputting, by the machine learning process, road line metadata that comprises a line offset value, a line angle value, a line curvature value and a line curvature rate; and preforming a steering related response to the road line metadata.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a controller and a control method that execute an adaptive cruise control appropriately in a group riding. According to the present disclosure, an execution section (22) of a controller (20) executes an adaptive cruise control based on a surrounding environment information that is information about a surrounding environment of the motorcycle (1). The execution section (22), in the adaptive cruise control, controls a speed of the motorcycle (1) automatically regardless of an accelerating/decelerating operation by a rider of the motorcycle (1) and executes a distance maintenance control to keep a distance between the motorcycle (1) and a target vehicle at a target distance. An identification section (23) of the controller (20) identifies a first convoy including the motorcycle (1) in a group riding in which the motorcycle (1) travels in a group of a plurality of motorcycles (2) forming at least the first convoy and a second convoy separated from each other.

Abstract: Among other things, we describe techniques for estimating a speed profile for a proposed trajectory for a vehicle and operating the vehicle along the proposed trajectory according to the speed profile, including a method for: obtaining, by a planning circuit on a vehicle, a proposed trajectory for the vehicle in response to a driving scenario; obtaining, by the planning circuit, an estimated speed profile, and a confidence score, wherein the confidence score represents a similarity of the estimated speed profile to an actual speed profile that would be generated by a control circuit for the proposed trajectory; determining whether the confidence score meets a confidence threshold; and in accordance with a determination that the confidence score exceeds the confidence threshold, operating, by a control circuit on the vehicle, the vehicle along the proposed trajectory.

Abstract: An unmanned vehicle management system includes: an inter-vehicle distance determination unit that determines an inter-vehicle distance between a sprinkling vehicle and an unmanned vehicle traveling behind the sprinkling vehicle in a same direction as that of the sprinkling vehicle based on a sprinkling state from a sprinkling spray provided in the sprinkling vehicle traveling in a work site; and an output unit that outputs, to the unmanned vehicle, inter-vehicle distance data indicating the inter-vehicle distance determined by the inter-vehicle distance determination unit.

Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for controlling vehicles in response to outriggers are provided. In some examples, images captured using image sensors from an environment of a first vehicle may be obtained. The images may be analyzed to detect a second vehicle. The images may be analyzed to determine that the second vehicle is connected to an outrigger. The images may be analyzed to determine a state of the outrigger. The first vehicle may be caused to initiate an action responding to the second vehicle based on the determined state of the outrigger. For example, in response to a first determined state of the outrigger, the first vehicle may be caused to initiate the action responding to the second vehicle, and in response to a second determined state of the outrigger, causing the first vehicle to initiate the action may be avoided.

Abstract: A system has memory that stores instructions executable by the processor to instruct operation of at least one vehicle system (e.g., braking system, propulsion system, steering system, suspension system) in a minimum time mode for travel of the vehicle from a starting point to a destination point of a roadway. The system collects roadway data for the roadway from the starting point to the destination point. Based on the roadway data, the system determine a minimum time path from the starting point to the destination point and speed along the minimum time path. In response to a maximum acceleration input from a human driver of the vehicle when the vehicle is at the starting point, the system initiates the minimum time mode and instructs operation of at least one vehicle system to pursue the minimum time path and speed along the minimum time path from starting point to destination point.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for backward driving assist of a vehicle, the method comprises: obtaining first coordinate information for the real-time location of the vehicle; detecting an object around the vehicle, and obtaining second coordinate information for the real-time location of the vehicle; determining a location of the vehicle based on the first and second coordinate information; and performing backward driving assist control based on the determined location of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle deceleration assistance apparatus executes a deceleration assistance control before a vehicle arrives at a target point. The apparatus executes the deceleration assistance control, setting a deceleration assistance level to a first level when a first condition is satisfied, blinkers are activated, and a second condition is satisfied. The first condition is a condition that a target point distance between the vehicle and the target point is equal to or shorter than a first distance. The second condition is a condition that the target point distance is equal to or longer than a second distance shorter than the first distance. The apparatus executes the deceleration assistance control, setting the deceleration assistance level to a second level lower than the first level when the first condition is satisfied, the blinkers are activated, and the second condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: A vehicle deceleration assistance apparatus executes a deceleration assistance control to assist a deceleration of a vehicle before the vehicle arrives at a deceleration assistance target point to turn left or right. The apparatus executes the deceleration assistance control of a first level as a deceleration assistance level of assisting the deceleration of the vehicle when first and second conditions are satisfied. The first condition is a condition that a target point distance between the vehicle and the deceleration assistance target point is equal to or shorter than a predetermined distance, and blinkers are activated. The second condition is a condition that the blinkers activated for changing traffic lanes continues being activated. The apparatus executes the deceleration assistance control of a second level lower than the first level until a predetermined time elapses since the first condition becomes satisfied while the second condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A method for the computer-aided estimation or determination of a value for the total mass of a vehicle system, comprising a towing vehicle and possibly at least one trailer coupled to the towing vehicle, wherein physical data relating to the vehicle system, which change depending on a load of the vehicle system and a number of trailers coupled to the towing vehicle are captured, and a first value for the total mass of the vehicle system is estimated or determined as part of a first estimation or determination at a first point in time, in particular irrespective of the physical data, wherein the first value is retained as a valid value for the total mass of the vehicle system or is used as an initial value for a further determination or estimation of the total mass of the vehicle system if it has been identified.

Abstract: A method for controlling a motor vehicle having an electronic control unit (ECU), includes enabling an initial set of vehicle performance limits of the motor vehicle via the ECU in response to a request signal from a computer device. The method includes detecting a current vehicle state of the motor vehicle, including one or more of a location of the motor vehicle, an occupancy state of the motor vehicle, and/or an experience level of a driver thereof, and dynamically adjusting at least one of the performance limits in response to the current vehicle state. A motor vehicle includes one or more road wheels and vehicle components connected to a vehicle body. The ECU includes non-transitory memory on which is recorded instructions for performing the method.

Abstract: A method of controlling driving of a vehicle which performs torque command tracking control includes distributing a required torque command to a left wheel torque command and a right wheel torque command, correcting each of the distributed torque commands using the differential control amount according to a vehicle driving mode and steering input information, and then controlling torque applied to the wheel based on the torque command after correction.

Abstract: Traction control guidance system for providing guided traction control settings based on vehicle friction conditions. The traction control guidance system is configured to receive data relating to friction conditions experienced by the vehicle. The traction control guidance system is configured to compare the friction data to recommended traction control setting stored in memory according to a traction control setting guidance profile and provide to a user/driver the recommendations for traction control settings to be activated as traction control setting guidance. If the user/driver accepts the traction control setting guidance, this will cause a vehicle controller to activate the traction control settings according to the traction control settings included in the traction control setting guidance.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a device and a method for exact seat occupancy identification in a vehicle. The device comprises an ultra-wideband (UWB) radar comprising a transmitter (TRx) and at least two receivers (TRx, Rx). The transmitter (TRx) is configured to emit a plurality of preamble symbols in the direction of a vehicle seat of the vehicle. The at least two receivers (TRx, Rx) are configured to receive the preamble symbols reflected by the vehicle seats. A computer is configured to generate Channel Impulse Responses (CIRs) from the received, reflected preamble symbols and process the generated CIRs with the aid of a suitable machine learning algorithm. The computer is further configured to perform an angle-of-arrival calculation based on the reflected preamble symbols and determine an occupancy of the vehicle seats from the processed CIRs and the performed angle-of-arrival calculation.