Patent ID: 6925413
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: B60R,G01C,G01P,H05K

Abstract:
1. A method of detecting a spatial movement state of a moving object, comprising: detecting at least three components of the spatial movement state by manner of a plurality of sensors in at least three different spatial detection directions; and combining the at least three components together to calculate a plurality of resultants; wherein at least one of the at least three different spatial detection directions is not a cartesian coordinate in order to form a plurality of redundant sensor signals; wherein two movement components of the at least three components are detected in two mutually perpendicular cartesian detection directions, and a third movement component of the at least three components is detected in a third detection direction that is neither parallel nor perpendicular to a first detection direction and a second detection direction of the at least three different spatial detection directions, all of the at least three different spatial detection directions lying in a plane; and wherein the moving object is a vehicle and the two mutually perpendicular cartesian detection directions are each directed for detecting at least one of a rotational movement and a translational movement at least one of (a) about and (b) in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the vehicle, the two mutually perpendicular cartesian detection directions are each directed for detecting at least one of the rotational movement and the translational movement at least one of (a) about and (b) in a direction of a vertical axis of the vehicle, and one of a plausibility signal and an error signal in an event of an error is derived from one calculated projection of a resultant onto an indicated plane for all possible combinations of the at least three components detected.