Apparatus for calculating driving path area of vehicle and method thereof

A method for calculating a driving path area of a vehicle, the method comprising:

• obtaining, by a sensor device provided in the vehicle including a tractor part and a trailer part, information about a periphery of the vehicle;
• calculating, by a processor, one or more driving paths of tractor part, based on the information about the periphery of the vehicle and information about a map around the vehicle, the information about the map around the vehicle being stored in a memory;
• and
• calculating, by the processor, a path area swept by a part or all of the body of the vehicle with regard to an area swept by the trailer part corresponding to each of the one or more driving paths of the tractor part,
• wherein the calculating of the path area swept by the part or all of the body of the vehicle by the processor includes:
• calculating, by the processor, a driving path of the trailer part corresponding to each of the one or more driving paths of the tractor part, based on at least one of a tractor-trailer model, simulation, or a previously learned artificial neural network-based learning model;
• and
• calculating, by the processor, the area swept by the trailer part, based on the driving path of the trailer part.