Determining a contamination of an optical sensor of a vehicle

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• obtaining first data indicative of a measured detection range of an optical sensor of a vehicle to a ground of a surrounding of the vehicle based on a measurement of the ground by an optical sensor;
• obtaining second data indicative of a nominal detection range of the optical sensor to the ground of the surrounding of the vehicle;
• and
• determining a contamination of the optical sensor based on a comparison of the first data to the second data.

A vehicle, comprising:

• an optical sensor;
• a cleaning system comprising a reservoir for containing a cleaning agent and a nozzle for cleaning the optical sensor, wherein the reservoir is configured to provide the cleaning agent to the nozzle and the nozzle is configured to clean the optical sensor with a thereto provided cleaning agent;
• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
• obtaining first data indicative of a measured detection range of the optical sensor to a ground of a surrounding of the vehicle based on a measurement of the ground by the optical sensor;
• obtaining second data indicative of a nominal detection range of the optical sensor to the ground of the surrounding of the vehicle;
• and
• determining a contamination of the optical sensor based on a comparison of the first data to the second data.