Apparatus and method for scanning parking slot

Abstract

An apparatus for scanning a parking slot includes: a parking slot detecting processor configured to: extract line segments from obstructions around a vehicle using a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor and detect a parking slot candidate by comparing a distance between the line segments extracted from the obstructions with width or length information of the vehicle; a posture information calculating processor configured to calculate posture information of the vehicle with respect to the detected parking slot candidate; a path generating processor configured to generate a parking path for autonomous parking in the detected parking slot candidate with respect to the posture information of the vehicle; and a determining processor configured to determine whether it is possible to park in the corresponding parking slot candidate based on the generated parking path and determine the parking slot candidate as a target parking slot.

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