AUTONOMOUS DOCKING SYSTEM FOR FREIGHT TRUCKS

Autonomous docking systems and methods receive asynchronous images from a vehicle-mounted camera and a plurality of infrastructure cameras and perform object mapping to determine candidate routes leading to a docking station. Candidate routes are divided into route segments for which disparity map quality scores are estimated to select a navigation route. Information from infrastructure cameras and vehicle-mounted cameras is used to generate a disparity map to perform object detection, distance measurement, or localization along the navigation route. The disparity map is used to communicate navigation commands to an HMI or a vehicle control system.