A system, method, and computer readable medium provide vehicle driving assistance, wherein candidate travel routes for the vehicle are analyzed to identify one of the travel routes as a selected travel route. The selection includes calculating a route cost associated with vehicle lateral acceleration, for each of the candidate routes and selecting the one with the lowest cost.

A vehicle control device includes: a driving controller configured to perform first driving control such that one or both of an acceleration or deceleration speed and steering of a vehicle is controlled to travel the vehicle; an occupant intention detector configured to detect an intention of the occupant to switch from manual driving to a state in which the driving controller performs the first driving control; and a one-way traffic determiner configured to determine whether a road on which the vehicle is predicted to be traveling or travel in future is a one-way traffic road. The driving controller determines whether to start the first driving control based on whether the one-way traffic determiner determines the road on which the vehicle is predicted to be traveling or travel in future is the one-way traffic road.

A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle state detecting device configured to obtain vehicle state information that includes a steering angle of a front wheel; a pitch moment computation unit configured to compute an applied pitch moment to be applied to a vehicle based on the vehicle state information; a deceleration force computation unit configured to compute an applied deceleration force to be generated in the vehicle based on the applied pitch moment; and a deceleration force distribution unit configured to compute a brake device deceleration force to be generated by a brake device and a power plant deceleration force to be generated by a power plant based on the applied deceleration force and state information of the brake device and the power plant.

Various embodiments may include methods of limiting a steering command angle during operation of a vehicle. Various embodiments may include determining a speed of the vehicle, applying the determined speed to a dynamic model of the autonomous vehicle to determine a steering wheel command angle limit. Embodiments may further include determining whether a received or commanded steering command angle exceeds the steering wheel command angle limit and altering the steering command angle to an angle no greater than the maximum steering command angle if the received/commanded steering command angle exceeds the steering wheel command angle limit.

A control device for a vehicle includes an upper limit value setting unit configured to set an upper limit value of an acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle, and a vehicle controller configured to control the vehicle such that the acceleration or deceleration does not exceed the upper limit value. The upper limit value setting unit is configured to change the upper limit value according w at least one predetermined condition.

A vehicle control device executes a speed management control to let the vehicle travel in such a manner that a vehicle speed of when the vehicle is traveling in a curve section does not exceed a target vehicle speed. The vehicle control device executes a lane tracing control to let the vehicle travel in such a manner that the vehicle travels along a traveling lane, in a time period from a start time point to an end time point. The vehicle control device sets the target vehicle speed to a first target vehicle speed in a first situation in which the lane tracing control is not being executed, and sets the target vehicle speed to a second target vehicle speed which is lower than the first target vehicle speed in a second situation in which the lane tracing control is being executed.

A vehicle control system includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a situation in the surroundings of a vehicle, a lane change control unit configured to cause a lane of the vehicle to be changed from a first lane to a second lane without depending upon a steering operation of an occupant of the vehicle, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a nearby vehicle travelling in a lane adjacent to the second lane and the vehicle are in a parallel traveling state in a case that the lane of the vehicle is changed to the second lane by the lane change control unit on the basis of the situation in the surroundings recognized by the recognition unit, wherein the lane change control unit causes control details of the lane change to be different between a case in which the determination unit determines that the nearby vehicle and the vehicle are in the parallel traveling state and a case in which the determination unit determines that the nearby vehicle and the vehicle are not in the parallel traveling state.

Provided are: a device and a method for controlling vehicle movement, with which it is possible to suppress causing uncomfortableness to vehicle occupants and causing unstable behavior during turning by automatic travel control; and a device and a method for generating a target course. In a vehicle capable of automatically controlling lateral acceleration occurring in the vehicle, the present invention controls the acceleration occurring in the vehicle such that jerk, which is the change over time of acceleration, becomes the greatest in a region where the lateral acceleration that occurs upon entering a curve is equal to or less than half the acceleration during normal turning, and the jerk decreases as the acceleration increases.

The present invention relates to a vehicle control device for a vehicle, comprising a number of first control devices which are independent of each other and are arranged in a first logical level and designed to calculate predetermined first vehicle control functions and to output first calculation results, a number of further control devices which are independent of each other, are arranged in a number which is superordinate from the first logical level and hierarchically arranged among each other and are designed to calculate further predetermined vehicle control functions and to output further calculation results. According to the invention, the further control devices are designed to use calculation results only of those control devices as input variables for the corresponding vehicle control functions which are arranged in logical levels hierarchically below the logical level of the respective control device.

An automotive electronic preventive active safety system designed to improve driving stability of a motor-vehicle and to: receive data indicative of a current position of the motor-vehicle, and of roads and their characteristics comprising a road curvature, and of potential driving routes of the motor-vehicle from a current position up to an electronic horizon thereof; identify the most driving-safety-critical road bend along the driving route of the motor-vehicle; backwards compute, from the most driving-safety-critical road bend and up to the current position of the motor-vehicle, a driving speed profile that the motor-vehicle should follow from its current position up to the identified most driving-safety-critical road bend to result in the latter being driven through at a driving speed that satisfies a driving safety criterion; compare the current and backwards-computed speeds of the motor-vehicle in the current position thereof; and, if the current speed of the motor-vehicle in its current position is greater than or equal to the backwards computed speed of the motor-vehicle in its current position, cause the motor-vehicle to decelerate to such an extent as to result in the most driving-safety-critical road bend being driven through at a driving speed that satisfies the driving safety criterion.