Sensor and autonomous vehicle
AssigneeSick AG
InventorMichael Pfister
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Abstract
An autonomous vehicle having a sensor and a sensor having a plurality of light transmitters and a plurality of light receivers that are arranged in a common housing, with the optical axes of the light transmitters and light receivers being arranged in parallel or in fan form in different angle directions having angular intervals, whereby a protected field is formed, and having a control and evaluation unit for monitoring and evaluating the protected field, wherein a camera is connected to the control and evaluation unit, with camera images of the camera being evaluated by the control and evaluation unit.
Claims13
A sensor comprising:
- a plurality of light transmitters and a plurality of light receivers arranged in a common housing, with the optical axes of the light transmitters and light receivers arranged in parallel or in fan form in different angle directions having angular intervals, whereby a protected field is formed;
- and
- a control and evaluation unit for monitoring and evaluating the protected field,
- wherein a camera is connected to the control and evaluation unit, with camera images of the camera being evaluated by the control and evaluation unit,
- and wherein a plurality of switchable protected fields are provided, with the protected fields being switched over in dependence on the detected camera image, and with the field of view of the camera directed to the protected field and at least the region of the protected field detected by the camera.
An autonomous vehicle comprising:
- a sensor, having a plurality of light transmitters and a plurality of light receivers arranged in a common housing, with the optical axes of the light transmitters and light receivers arranged in parallel or in fan form in different angle directions having angular intervals, whereby a protected field is formed;
- and
- the sensor further having a control and evaluation unit for monitoring and evaluating the protected field,
- wherein a camera is connected to the control and evaluation unit, with camera images of the camera being evaluated by the control and evaluation unit,
- and wherein a plurality of switchable protected fields are provided, with the protected fields being switched over in dependence on the detected camera image, and with the field of view of the camera directed to the protected field (6) and at least the region of the protected field detected by the camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.