System and method for controlling an object detection system of a vehicle

A system is disclosed for controlling an object detection system (1) of a land based vehicle, having at least one detection device (6) with a limited geometrical operating area. The system comprises a computing device (4) using information regarding the current or upcoming road situation from an on-board map database (2) as input for computing an attention plan for optimising the use of the at least one detection device (6) in the object detection system (1), said attention plan being outputted to the object detection system (1) for control of said detection device. Further, a method is disclosed which relates to controlling an object detection system.