Patent ID: 7149624

Claim:
A method for determining the position of one vehicle with respect to another vehicle, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: calculating the distance d 0 between a first and a second vehicle at an instant T 0 ; measuring the displacement of the first vehicle with respect to a reference system having its origin at the point where the first vehicle is located at the instant T 0 by detecting the position x r1 ,y r1 ,z r1 of the vehicle at an instant T 1 ; measuring the displacement of the second vehicle with respect to a reference system having its origin at the point where the second vehicle is located at the instant T 0 by detecting the position x s1 ,y s1 ,z s1 of the vehicle at the instant T 1 ; calculating the distance d 1 between the first vehicle and the second vehicle at the instant T 1 ; measuring the displacement of the first vehicle with respect to the reference system with its origin at the point where the first vehicle is located at the instant T 0 by detecting the position x r2 ,y r2 ,z r2 of the vehicle at an instant T 2 ; measuring the displacement of the second vehicle with respect to the reference system having its origin at the point where the second vehicle is located at the instant T 0 by detecting the position x s2 ,y s2 ,z s2 of the vehicle at the instant T 2 ; calculating the distance d 2 between the first vehicle and the second vehicle at the instant T 2 ; and using the information regarding the distances and the positions for determining the position of one vehicle with respect to the other vehicle.