METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LOCATING A VEHICLE

A method for locating a vehicle involves detecting an elevation profile of a roadway of the vehicle and in which image features on the roadway are detected as landmarks and are compared with landmarks stored on a digital map. A transformation of the detected and/or stored landmarks into a common perspective performed to compare the landmarks. The transformation is carried out based on model parameters of a parametric model of the elevation profile of the roadway and a parametric model of a vehicle inclination. The model parameters are determined by determining an expected elevation profile of the roadway from the parametric models of the elevation profile and the vehicle inclination and minimizing a difference between the expected elevation profile and the detected elevation profile by varying the model parameters.