Patent ID: 8692687

Claim:
A parking-assistant system for assisting a driver in a manoeuvre in reverse for parking a vehicle at a roadside parallel to a direction of a road in a parking space between a first obstacle and a second obstacle that define, respectively, a front limit and a rear limit of the parking space with respect to a body of the vehicle, wherein said parking-assistant system is implemented in a computer program and carried-out on a computer system that includes at least one of a computer having a memory, processor, display, and user-input mechanism, said parking-assistant system comprising: a detection mechanism for detecting a scene external to the vehicle; and a processing mechanism for generating control signals for following a parking path; wherein said detection mechanism generates signals indicating the scene surrounding the parking space while the vehicle proceeds to a start-of-manoeuvre position and said processing mechanism generates a series of signals indicating positions along a reference path for the parking manoeuvre, when the vehicle has not yet started the parking manoeuvre and is still situated outside of the parking space, according to logic that follows: evaluating, on a basis of said signals coming from said detection mechanism and with respect to a predefined reference system, a position of the first and second obstacles; generating values of impact with either of the first and second obstacles and, attributing to the vehicle parameters, indicating the position of the vehicle with respect to said reference system; and varying said parameters in a way corresponding to a simulation, in said reference system, of a manoeuvre for exit from the parking spot starting from a predetermined end-of-parking position, when the vehicle has not yet started the parking manoeuvre and is still situated outside of the parking space, said signals that indicate said reference-system positions of the vehicle along the reference path representing values assumed by said parameters in said simulation, which are different from said impact values.