PROCESS FOR DETECTING THE ROAD CONDITIONS AHEAD FOR MOTOR VEHICLES

A process for recognizing the course of the road ahead for a motor vehicle shall be provided, in which the velocity of the vehicle is determined and the position and the velocity of objects located ahead are determined by rigid search antennas oriented in the direction of travel via a radar sensor system, and which makes possible a simple, forward-looking recognition of the course of the road by special evaluation of the measured position and velocity data available. The roadside-specific targets are filtered out of the fixed target by the threshold value comparison of the fixed target amplitudes, and the current distances between the vehicle and the side of the road are determined in discrete angle ranges by ordering filtration. The distances from the side of the road, estimated for each angle range, are sent as characteristics to a classifier for the prediction of the curve type lying ahead, and they are used as support values for a nonlinear regression to obtain a curvature parameter of the curve.