Self-position calculating apparatus and self-position calculating method
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Sep 26, 2017
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Feb 24, 2014
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A self-position calculating apparatus includes: a light projector configured to project a patterned light beam onto a road surface around a vehicle; an image capturing unit configured to capture and obtain an image of the road surface around the vehicle covering an area of the projected patterned light beam; an orientation angle calculator configured to calculate an orientation angle of the vehicle relative to the road surface from a position of the patterned light beam on the image obtained by the image capturing unit; a feature point detector configured to detect multiple feature points on the road surface within the feature-point detection region; an orientation change amount calculator configured to calculate an amount of change in the orientation of the vehicle; and a self-position calculator configured to calculate a current position and a current orientation angle of the vehicle.
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