MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR THE AREA BEHIND MOTOR VEHICLES

摘要

The invention relates to a monitoring system for monitoring the surrounding area, in particular the area behind motor vehicles and trailer vehicles having a plurality of distance sensors, which are arranged in a main plane and in at least one additional plane, for detecting objects or obstacles in the respective monitoring region (10', 12', 14') which create the risk of a collision and/or limit the passage height and/or the passage width, and having a device (30), which evaluates the distance sensor signals, for ascertaining the current distance (actual value) of the motor vehicle from the detected object or obstacle and for comparing the actual value with a predefinable, vehicle-specific setpoint distance value and for outputting a warning signal if a predefinable difference value between the actual value and the setpoint value is not reached. In order to cover the monitoring region both in respect of area and also in respect of height, additional distance sensors (12, 14) are arranged on the vehicle in at least one additional plane in such a way that objects (20, 22) and obstacles which cannot be identified by the distance sensors (10) in the main plane (2) can be detected over the entire width of the vehicle.