EP1446678B1 - Procede et dispositif pour detecter et classifier des vehicules en deplacement - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour detecter et classifier des vehicules en deplacement Download PDF

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EP1446678B1
EP1446678B1 EP02754376A EP02754376A EP1446678B1 EP 1446678 B1 EP1446678 B1 EP 1446678B1 EP 02754376 A EP02754376 A EP 02754376A EP 02754376 A EP02754376 A EP 02754376A EP 1446678 B1 EP1446678 B1 EP 1446678B1
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Reinhard KOY-OBERTHÜR
Lothar Brenneis
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Norbert Stein
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  • the present invention relates to a method for detecting vehicles in motion, in particular trucks on motorways, with the aid of at least one camera and / or other means for detecting the contour or spatial structure of a vehicle and, where appropriate, its speed.
  • the present invention also relates to a device for detecting vehicles in motion, in particular trucks on highways, which has at least one camera and / or other means for detecting the contour or spatial structure of the vehicle and optionally its speed.
  • a corresponding method and also a corresponding devices are known from US-A-5,717,390 known.
  • the contour of a passing under a measuring bridge vehicle is detected by means of a scanner and at the same time is directed by a spaced behind it second measuring bridge from the measuring beam of a Doppler radar system to the area below the first measuring bridge to detect the speed of just passing under the measuring bridge vehicle and assign this speed of the vehicle contour detected there.
  • both of the methods and devices described above are unable to accurately detect the vectorial velocity, ie the absolute amount of the speed and the current direction of travel of a vehicle, with the aid of the speed-measuring device.
  • these known methods and devices which use overlay measurements utilizing the Doppler effect, basically only detect the relative speed between the radar or laser system on the one hand and the vehicle on the other hand , ie only the speed component measured precisely in the direction of the radar or laser beam.
  • the angle between the measuring beam and the direction of the lane could be taken into account as a correction factor, but without this direction having to coincide with the direction actually traveled, which is not the case in particular when changing lanes.
  • Corresponding systems are used both for speed measuring points for detecting speeding and for toll monitoring.
  • toll devices often also have communication devices which communicate with corresponding communication devices which are arranged on a vehicle, and in doing so exchange all data relevant for the toll calculation. This can also be associated with automatic booking and communication to a central facility.
  • the toll stations with stop and pay stations or with verification have the disadvantage that they are usually quite large buildings, since they usually have far more cash or paying points must have as the highway in question has tracks to avoid significant congestion on the Highway to be created.
  • these toll booths have the disadvantage that they must either be additionally provided at each exit or driveway of a highway or that between two corresponding toll booths no further driveway or exit may be present. This leads to the fact that the user may have to accept long distances or detours until reaching the next highway entrance or exit, which significantly reduces the acceptance of such a system and at least partially nullifies the desired time gain. Moreover, such a system is totally impractical in cases where only a certain part, although under certain circumstances a significant part of the vehicles using a highway, is chargeable. This applies, for example, to a motorway toll limited to lorries, as currently envisaged for the Federal Republic of Germany. The lump-sum collection of a toll for each truck is sometimes rejected as very unfair and therefore politically undesirable.
  • An up-to-date toll collection system should therefore limit vehicle sticking to the absolutely unavoidable level, ie, for example, the maximum one-time toll payment per day, as far as travel can be anticipated. Otherwise, tolls may be paid for longer periods, in packages for certain routes or for any number of kilometers, and registration of the vehicle with an automatic debit system should also be possible. In conjunction with modern communication and navigation technology, such systems can completely dispense with the setting up of toll booths when opportunities are created to safely identify any toll buffers.
  • a corresponding system must therefore be secure enough to effectively prevent any manipulation attempts and any attempt to drive a certain distance without paying the due fees.
  • the toll authorities must therefore be in a position to clearly identify each vehicle that is subject to a toll as such, with the error rate as low as possible. This means that, on the one hand, it is not permissible to register vehicles which are not subject to the toll charge and, on the other hand, toll vehicles for which a toll has actually been paid should not give the false declaration that the charge has not been paid. Finally, however, all toll vehicles should actually be recorded as such.
  • the present invention has the object to provide a method and apparatus for detecting vehicles in motion, which are able to make an improved automatic distinction between toll and non-toll vehicles, so as the unnecessary detection to avoid large amounts of data.
  • this system can also be extended to cover only toll vehicles in which the proper payment of tolls is in doubt.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for assigning a measured speed, even under difficult conditions, such as, for example, a lane change, better and more clearly to an additionally differently detected vehicle.
  • an independent speed and distance estimation by a LIDAR system which can be estimated from the LIDAR data path and speed of the vehicle with sufficient accuracy to clearly the independently measured structure data, ie in particular height and / or width of the vehicle, the number of axles, the type of vehicle, the license plate etc., to be able to assign the LIDAR data.
  • From these data together then, e.g. the approximate length, width and / or height and other parameters of the vehicle and whether or not the vehicle may have a trailer.
  • This information is sufficient to classify the vehicle with high accuracy, whereby it is important to distinguish with a sufficient accuracy trucks from a certain size and weight class, so that false reports of the system are largely avoided.
  • the corresponding device is characterized in that it comprises a LIDAR system, which together with an evaluation device for detecting and tracking a vehicle is arranged at a distance before reaching a measuring point or recording position of a camera, the camera and / or the other means for detecting structural data are arranged and designed so that they at least one of the dimensions height or width of the previously detected by the LIDAR and for the Enter the measuring point of the vehicle calculated in advance.
  • the at least one profile parameter (height or width) of the vehicle is detected by laser distance sensors which are oriented substantially perpendicular to the direction of travel of the vehicle, so that any perspective distortions are minimal and can be easily corrected.
  • the laser distance sensors associated with the monitoring of a lane are arranged above the lane and laterally offset therefrom, and in particular if a pair of corresponding laser distance sensors is used. These then simultaneously capture a side front and the roof of the vehicle and the comparison of the data determined by both laser sensors then allows a precise, stereoscopic determination of the cross section. In this case, to further improve the accuracy of the height and width dimensions, a method is preferred in which the data of the laser distance sensors are statistically evaluated or averaged.
  • successively several independent distance measurements are made by the laser distance sensors and the data acquired thereby are processed statistically, so that the accuracy of the height and width dimensions can be improved by averaging.
  • the system must distinguish the dimensions of a cab from the dimensions of a subsequent box or tarpaulin body or other loading section of a truck.
  • this can also be done relatively easily with the aid of corresponding statistical means, for example by forming an average value only from a group of successive measured data if the individual data do not exceed a certain, predetermined fluctuation range compared to the mean value.
  • the number of vehicle axles, the type character (the mark), the mark (eg from video data) can be determined.
  • the LIDAR is a laser or maser measuring system, which usually consists of a larger number of individual jets which span a plane in the manner of a fan, wherein the opening angle of this fan for the purposes of the present invention is preferably not substantially greater than 60 ° is.
  • each lane is assigned its own LIDAR system and a corresponding LIDAR camera is preferably arranged above and next to the lane to be monitored by it.
  • the plane spanned by the individual beams of the LIDAR is tilted both with respect to the street level and with respect to a plane perpendicular to the street level.
  • the plane spanned by the LIDAR is rotated by all three axes.
  • a line of intersection of the LIDAR plane with the plane of the road runs along a line which intersects the direction of travel at an acute angle, and for a plane parallel to the road plane, this section line accordingly moves closer to the LIDAR system.
  • Each of the n lasers spanning the LIDAR plane is capable of distance measurement over the duration of a reflected laser beam.
  • a vehicle In the described orientation of the LIDAR, a vehicle must necessarily break through the LIDAR plane and thereby generates corresponding distance data, which are only evaluated so that from it the way, the speed and the acceleration of the vehicle or "object" can be estimated. This results in particular, whether the vehicle remains on the track on which it was detected or whether it is making a lane change.
  • the LIDAR system can then determine the location and time of the structural measurement or height and width measurement from these travel and speed data, that is, it can unambiguously associate the travel and speed data with the measured data of the corresponding sensors. Furthermore, due to the LIDAR data, an appropriate time may be determined at which an identification camera is triggered, which detects substantially the front of a vehicle.
  • the optical axis of the camera is preferably inclined at an angle between 15 and 70 °, preferably at an angle between 25 and 40 ° relative to the road plane and the camera itself is located as far as possible directly above the lane on which it detects the vehicles. Conveniently, this is done using an infrared camera with an infrared flash, which does not dazzle the drivers of the vehicles and which generally has a long life.
  • the flash is preferably located in the vicinity of the camera, so that retroreflective portions, as they are widely used in license plates, clearly stand out as a brighter image area.
  • communication devices are also provided which allow communication with a corresponding communication device provided in a vehicle.
  • a corresponding communication device provided in a vehicle.
  • At least one communication device and preferably even two or more communication devices per lane are provided for each lane of a lane, although each of these communication devices has only a relatively narrow detection range.
  • transmitting and Receiving devices or in the case of the use of microwave or infrared radiation as a carrier of the communication link through diaphragms, one can produce an approximately conical detection area with elliptical cross section, wherein the longitudinal axis of the elliptical cross section in the direction of the lane and the short half axis of the elliptical cross section perpendicular to do this.
  • the detection ranges may be less than the width of a lane and the length may for example be two to three times the width, but is limited to a maximum of 20 m as a rule.
  • This communication device should preferably contain the data on the type and type and size class of the vehicle, its identity (license plate, including country code), and toll fee data, so that the detection system can dispense with the capture or storage of already recorded data, if the proper payment of tolls is determined by the communication device.
  • an embodiment is preferred in which exactly one communication device, preferably based on infrared, is used per lane, wherein the detection ranges can certainly overlap.
  • the double detection of vehicles that is possible in the event of a lane change due to the overlapping of the coverage areas can be corrected later by adjusting the data.
  • the simultaneous detection of a vehicle by two communication devices also provides the additional information about the current position of this vehicle.
  • all or most of the sensors of the system according to the invention are arranged on the cross member of a bridge spanning the lane or lanes, whereby a part of the sensors can also be arranged on the vertical pillars of such a bridge if required.
  • a highway bridge 10 the cross member 12 extends over three parallel lanes and a standstill away, the cross member 12 rests on two pillars 11.
  • the Bridge may be a normal road bridge, but will typically be a separate bridge of the type of known gantries or bridges for accommodating speed gauges and cameras.
  • the bridge 10 may also be designed walkable, here not shown safety devices on the pillars 11 ensure that climbing the bridge 10 is prevented by unauthorized persons in general.
  • the viewing direction in Figure 1 is the direction of travel and it recognizes a right lane width b and then left three lanes of the width S, where on the right and on the middle lane each still the contour of two trucks 8 are recognizable in a rear view.
  • 1 designates a license plate camera with integrated lighting, which operates preferably on the basis of infrared.
  • a number plate camera 1 is arranged approximately in the center above the right and left lanes, whereas on the left lane an overview camera 6 is provided with an LED flash illumination 5.
  • the cameras 1 as well as the overview camera 6 work preferably on the basis of infrared, which has the advantage, inter alia, that the drivers of the motor vehicles are not blinded by the flashes of light which are required anyway in poor visibility, with corresponding infrared flash units also having a very long service life.
  • the overview camera 6 with the corresponding flash 5 could also be replaced by another, the left lane detecting license plate camera 1, but here it is assumed that on the left lane for trucks driving prohibition and the bridge presented here for a system is envisaged in which only trucks are to be detected.
  • the LIDAR camera 2 is attached to the right pillar 11 and is provided for the monitoring of the right lane, while the above the right lane on the cross member 12 of Bridge 10 mounted LIDAR camera 2 'is provided for the detection of the middle lane.
  • laser distance sensors 3, 3 ' which are provided in pairs for each lane.
  • the one pair 3 of laser distance sensors each consist of a line camera and a laser beam scanned over an angle of slightly more than 90 °, one of the laser distance sensors 3 being mounted on the right pillar 11 and the other laser distance sensor 3 being mounted above the left lane, but it should detect vehicles in the right lane and is evaluated only for the detection of vehicles in the right lane.
  • This sensor pair is mounted above the left and right lanes so that each of these laser sensors 3 'detects both the roof and top of a truck and one of the sides, that is, either the right or left side of the truck.
  • the transition along the right and left edges of the roof is very easy to detect on the basis of the abruptly changing distance data and by adjusting the data detected by both line scan cameras or laser distance sensors 3 'a stereoscopic image or an exact cross section can be generated, during transit a truck through the bridge 10, if possible, a plurality of measurement series with each of the laser distance sensors 3, 3 'are taken, so that in addition to the comparison of the data of the pairs of sensors, which have each detected the same vehicle from different positions, to determine the true dimensions ( Height and width), a statistical averaging over several measurements can be made.
  • the dimensions in the longitudinal direction of the truck 8 can be detected under certain circumstances alone by the laser distance sensors 3, 3 ', since during the passage of the truck and the laterally recognizable wheels or axles of the trucks are detected.
  • the length of a truck obtained by the laser distance sensors 3, 3 'in a plurality of successive cross-sectional measurements may then be e.g. be determined on the condition that the wheels detected in these measurements must have a substantially circular shape.
  • this boundary condition can also be introduced as a control condition if, moreover, the length of the truck is determined solely from the transit time (total acquisition time of the distance sensors 3, 3 ') and the independently determined speed of the truck 8.
  • the LIDAR systems 2, 2 ' are used. These will be explained in more detail in connection with FIG.
  • DSRC units 4 which are used to communicate with appropriate built-in truck communication units.
  • each of these communication units 4 has a detection area 4 'which has the shape of an oblong ellipse, with the major axis of the ellipse approximately in the direction of travel and the minor axis perpendicular thereto.
  • Each lane is covered by two of these communication units 4, wherein the overlap with the communication units of adjacent lanes is kept as low as possible.
  • the length of the elliptical detection areas 4 ' is in any case less than 20 m and in the case shown concretely is about 8 m. This means that for the communication between a communication unit 4 with the corresponding devices in a truck about 0.35 seconds are available when the truck 8 moves at a speed of 80 km / h through the area 4 '.
  • the communication system must exchange all relevant data, that is to record the identity of the vehicle, preferably via its electronically transmitted license plate, the previously traveled or intended route and the receipt of a toll or the indication a toll payment office where a corresponding toll has been paid or will be paid.
  • the communication system may decide, if necessary also using a central registration office, whether the other recorded or still to be recorded data of the vehicle in question must be stored or if data storage is obsolete because it has been proven that the vehicle in question pays the required toll has been.
  • the detection areas 9 and 9 'of the two LIDAR systems 2 and 2' continue.
  • the LIDAR cameras 2 and 2 'span with a plurality of laser beams on a plane whose lying above the road surface area 9 or 9' in Figure 2 is shown hatched. That is, the each extending obliquely to the lanes boundary line of the hatched areas 9, 9 'defines the intersection of the plane defined by the LIDAR laser plane with the road surface.
  • the LIDAR system detects corresponding laser echoes, generally in parallel on several channels, according to the number of laser beams used. In the present case, a number of 16 individual laser beams for LIDAR 2 or 2 'has been found to be sufficient.
  • the LIDAR data is processed automatically, that is, the echoes of the various laser beams are assigned to the front or side surfaces of a truck because of their slightly or more widely divergent values.
  • This assignment of the individual laser channels to the front or side surface of a truck allows due to the continuously continued measurement, the determination of the current speed and the direction of travel of a vehicle or truck, in particular, lane changes can be detected and predicted. If, for example, such a lane change takes place just under the bridge or in the detection areas 4 'of the communication units 4, it can accordingly be predicted from the LIDAR data through which of the elliptical areas the lorry 8 in question has passed or passes, so that the data collected by the communication exchange can be unambiguously assigned to the truck 8 previously detected by means of the LIDAR.
  • the recording with the help of the number plates cameras 1 and optionally also the laser distance sensors 3, 3 'are controlled.
  • the number-plate cameras 1 are each arranged approximately centrally above the right and middle tracks and are inclined with their optical axis approximately 30 ° downwards in the direction of the road surface. They are triggered precisely at the time when the front of the vehicle is substantially completely in the field of vision of the camera 1, this time also being determined from the data of the associated LIDAR 2 or 2 '.
  • the laser distance sensors 3, 3 ' permanently scan the empty road space, they can also be selectively switched on if necessary before a truck 8 detected and tracked by the LIDAR system has reached the detection range of the laser distance sensors 3, 3' , They could be switched off again after a time interval sufficient at the detected speed of the truck and a theoretical maximum length of a truck-trailer (trailer) to pass through the bridge, these times being calculated again from the speed data acquired with the help of the LIDAR can.
  • all images and data are digitally captured and stored and optionally forwarded to a central office.
  • further (not shown) communication facilities are provided.
  • the local system mounted on a bridge 10 is sufficiently self-sufficient that it itself decides which data is to be transmitted to the control center and which does not need to be transmitted.
  • both the remote transmission of the data and the data exchange between the communication devices 4 and corresponding counterparts in the truck should be cryptographically secured and made tamper-resistant, if possible.
  • the identity of the lorry in question must first be established by other means. Although these take in principle a complete front view of a truck, but this is detected with sufficiently high resolution in order to be able to increase or evaluate in particular the surface of the license plate. There are now numerous systems for automatic reading of license plates known so that these systems need not be discussed here. Once the license plate has been detected not only visually, but also logically, the communication device (not shown) can connect to a central location to check whether there is data on the payment of tolls are stored to the respective license plate.
  • the recorded data of the vehicle cross section, the number of its axes and the determination of whether a trailer is present or not can be compared with the data stored centrally to the indicator, for example, to exclude tampering by using false number plates.
  • the data of the vehicles for which the charges have been clearly paid can be deleted immediately, unless they are to be used for statistical purposes or to issue a complete billing statement nevertheless store and process further.
  • FIG. 1 shows a surveillance camera 7 which is intended to prevent possible manipulation attempts on the bridge or on the sensors mounted thereon.
  • Figure 3 is shown schematically how the number-plate cameras 1 work by an infrared flash 13 is aligned and mounted at a small angle of 1 ° to 10 ° relative to the axis of the camera 1 and mounted so that the infra-reflective surface also for infrared light of Trucks emerge as particularly bright picture elements in the captured by the camera 1 image.
  • the overview image generated with a similar camera 6 is also needed only in cases of doubt.
  • it serves as a classification aid to a human observer, who has received corresponding data in a central office, in order to decide whether a given vehicle is a toll vehicle.
  • FIG. 4 shows the schematic sequence of the communication process, as well as of the cryptographic process (encryption / decryption, digital signature etc.). This process preferably takes place on a plug-in card 32.
  • the images digitized in FIG. 21 are digitally signed 32 before being evaluated by various image processing methods 25. Together with the DSRC data, the data obtained from the image processing is supplied to the decision process 26. If there are significant deviations between the data from communication and image processing, the corresponding vehicle is classified as a toll-bumper. The data from the communication is then digitally signed and stored as evidence along with the digitally signed images. In the other case, the data is deleted at 31.

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  1. Procédé de détection de véhicules en mouvement, notamment de camions sur des autoroutes, au moyen d'au moins une caméra et/ou d'autres dispositifs de détection du contour ou de la structure spatiale du véhicule et éventuellement de sa vitesse, caractérisé en ce que, avant de détecter le contour et/ou la structure spatiale, le véhicule est détecté et suivi par un système LIDAR qui couvre un plan avec une pluralité de faisceaux laser, le chemin, y compris la distance et la direction de roulement actuels, et la vitesse actuelle du véhicule étant évalués à partir de données LIDAR se présentant sous la forme de temps de propagation des faisceaux laser qui sont associés à des données de contour et de structure déterminées par la suite.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un des paramètres de profil, largeur ou hauteur du véhicule, est détecté par des capteurs de distance à laser qui sont orientés sensiblement perpendiculairement à la direction de roulement du véhicule respectivement à une voie de circulation.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que les données des capteurs de distance à laser sont exploitées statistiquement.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 2 ou 3, caractérisé en ce que la section de roulement existante du véhicule est détectée par des capteurs de distance à laser qui sont formés de caméras à balayage par lignes.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que des instants ou intervalles de détection de données du véhicule sont déterminés à partir des données de chemin et/ou de vitesse LIDAR pour les autres dispositifs.
  6. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que la marque du véhicule et/ou une identification du type sont détectées par un enregistrement frontal par caméra, l'axe optique de la caméra étant incliné d'un angle compris entre 15 et 70°, avantageusement entre 25 et 40°, par rapport à la surface de la route.
  7. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce qu'une liaison de communication est établie avec le véhicule, avantageusement à base d'ondes infrarouges ou de micro-ondes.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que la portée et l'orientation de la liaison de communication sont limitées au maximum à la largeur d'une voie de circulation et au maximum à 20 m dans la direction longitudinale de la voie.
  9. Procédé selon la revendication 7 ou 8, caractérisé en ce que l'on utilise pour une voie de circulation plusieurs dispositifs de communication, et en ce que l'on utilise pour plusieurs voies de circulation un nombre de dispositifs de communication qui correspond au moins au nombre de voies de circulation et qui est avantageusement égal au moins à son double.
  10. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 2 à 9, caractérisé en ce que les enregistrements par caméra et capteur tout comme les enregistrements LIDAR sont effectués à partir d'une position élevée à une hauteur d'au moins 1,5 m et au moins partiellement depuis un pont enjambant la voie de circulation.
  11. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 2 à 10, caractérisé en ce que le système LIDAR et les capteurs de distance à laser sont disposés en étant décalés latéralement de la voie de circulation sur laquelle ils détectent des véhicules.
  12. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 2 à 11, caractérisé en ce que le nombre d'essieux d'un véhicule est déterminé à partir des données des capteurs de distance à laser.
  13. Dispositif de détection de véhicules en mouvement, notamment de camions sur des autoroutes, lequel dispositif comporte au moins une caméra d'enregistrement d'une image vidéo du véhicule et d'autres dispositifs de détection du contour et/ou de la structure spatiale du véhicule et éventuellement de sa vitesse, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif comporte un système LIDAR qui est conçu de façon à détecter un véhicule se trouvant à distance devant la position d'enregistrement de la caméra et/ou des autres dispositifs et comporte une unité informatique qui est reliée au système LIDAR et qui évalue, à partir des données LIDAR se présentant sous la forme de temps de propagation des faisceaux laser, le chemin, c'est-à-dire la distance et la direction de roulement actuels, et la vitesse actuelle du véhicule, corrige éventuellement ces données et, en se fondant sur ces données, effectue une association avec des données de l'autre dispositif et/ou de l'image vidéo détectée.
  14. Dispositif selon la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce que le système LIDAR est conçu pour détecter et suivre un véhicule à distance avant qu'il n'atteigne un emplacement de mesure respectivement un position d'enregistrement de la caméra ou des autres dispositifs.
  15. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 13 et 14, caractérisé en ce que les autres dispositifs détectent au moins une des dimensions, hauteur ou largeur, et avantageusement tout le contour dans la vue latérale du véhicule détecté auparavant par le système LIDAR et calculé à l'avance pour atteindre l'emplacement de mesure.
  16. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 13 à 15, caractérisé en ce que les autres dispositifs comportent des capteurs de distance à laser qui sont disposés avantageusement par paires à coté et au-dessus d'une voie de circulation à surveiller.
  17. Dispositif selon la revendication 16, caractérisé en ce que le plan de mesure des capteurs de distance à laser s'étend sensiblement perpendiculairement à la direction de roulement.
  18. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 13 à 17, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu une caméra destinée à détecter le côté avant et/ou la marque du véhicule.
  19. Dispositif selon la revendication 18, caractérisé en ce que la caméra est montée au-dessus de la voie de circulation à surveiller et est avantageusement inclinée de sorte que les axes optiques sont inclinés de 15 à 70°, avantageusement de 25 à 40°, par rapport au plan de la voie de circulation.
  20. Dispositif selon la revendication 16 ou l'une des revendications dépendant de la revendication 16, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu au moins un dispositif de communication par voie de circulation, lequel est apte à communiquer avec un dispositif correspondant dans le véhicule.
  21. Dispositif selon la revendication 20, caractérisé en ce que la portée du dispositif de communication est limitée à un secteur sensiblement conique de section elliptique dont la largeur est inférieure à la largeur d'une voie de circulation et dont la longueur est à peu près égale au double de la largeur de la voie de circulation et en tout cas inférieure à 20 m.
  22. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 13 à 21, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte une caméra supplémentaire pour enregistrer une vue d'ensemble d'une ou plusieurs voies de circulation.
  23. Dispositif selon la revendication 16 ou l'une des revendications dépendant de la revendication 16, caractérisé en ce que les capteurs de distance à laser, le système LIDAR et également les dispositifs de communication sont disposés sur la pile verticale ou la traverse d'un pont enjambant la voie de circulation, respectivement les voies de circulation.
  24. Dispositif selon la revendication 23, caractérisé en ce que les capteurs de distance à laser surveillant une voie de circulation sont décalés de la voie à surveiller à peu près de la moitié de la largeur de celle-ci.
  25. Dispositif selon la revendication 16 ou l'une des revendications dépendant de la revendication 16, caractérisé en ce qu'il comporte au moins une unité informatique qui exploite les données du système LIDAR et/ou des capteurs de distance à laser et/ou de la caméra et les met en relation les uns avec les autres.
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