Path generation apparatus configured to generate target path of own vehicle traveling in own lane, includes: sensor configured to detect objects in surrounding area of own vehicle; and electronic control unit including processor and memory. Electronic control unit is configured to perform: recognizing adjacent vehicle traveling in adjacent lane adjacent to own lane from among detected objects; determining whether own lane is congested based on travel speed of own vehicle and determining whether adjacent lane is congested based on recognition result of adjacent lane; and generating target path of own vehicle. Generating target path includes generating target path on side away from adjacent lane with respect to that of case where own lane is determined to be congested and adjacent lane is determined to be congested, in case where own lane is determined to be congested and adjacent lane is determined not to be congested.

A control system for a mobile object includes: a first sensor; a second sensor, different from the first sensor, that is mounted in the mobile object and is configured to detect an object by causing the mobile object to contact or approach the object; and a control device configured to recognize circumstances of the mobile object on the basis of a detection result from the first sensor and to control movement of the mobile object on the basis of the circumstances. The control device assumes that a second object which is not recognizable or hard to recognize is present at a reference position which is determined on the basis of a position of a prescribed first object when the first object has been recognized and causes the mobile object to move to a position at which the second sensor is able to detect the second object.

A control device mounted on a mobile object acquires surrounding situation information indicating a surrounding situation of a mobile object recognized by an object recognition device mounted on the mobile object, detects a predetermined reference object present in a traveling direction of the mobile object on the basis of the surrounding situation information, identifies a travelable area of the mobile object on the basis of the surrounding situation information, controls traveling of the mobile object such that the mobile object travels in the travelable area, causes the mobile object to move closer to the reference object when the reference object is detected, and detects an accompanying object accompanying the reference object on the basis of the surrounding situation information recognized by the object recognition device after the mobile object moves closer to the reference object, and identifying the travelable area by excluding the reference object and the accompanying object.

A vehicle driving assist device includes an oncoming moving body recognizer configured to recognize an oncoming moving body; a lateral position distribution characteristics acquisition unit configured to acquire distribution characteristics of a lateral position of the oncoming moving body; a risk determination region setting unit configured to set, based on the distribution characteristics, a risk determination region for calculating a risk degree; a risk degree calculator configured to calculate the risk degree for the oncoming moving body; and a preliminary collision avoidance controller configured to recognize the oncoming moving body as the obstacle in accordance with the risk degree, and perform preliminary collision avoidance control in response to the oncoming moving body prior to the emergency collision avoidance control. The risk determination region setting unit is further configured to variably set the risk determination region so that the risk degree relatively increases as the distribution characteristics tend to disperse.

An information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that present simulation results so that users can easily examine defect data are provided. An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of simulation data pieces corresponding to a plurality of simulation conditions, respectively, or a plurality of experimental data pieces corresponding to a plurality of experimental conditions, respectively, a data extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of defect data pieces from the plurality of simulation data pieces or the plurality of experimental data pieces, a classification unit configured to classify the plurality of defect data pieces into a plurality of groups based on feature data calculated from each of the plurality of defect data pieces, and a presentation unit configured to visualize representative data extracted from each group and present the visualized representative data to the user.

Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a method for navigating a user vehicle may include acquiring, using at least one image capture device, a plurality of images of an area in a vicinity of the user vehicle; determining from the plurality of images a first lane constraint on a first side of the user vehicle and a second lane constraint on a second side of the user vehicle opposite to the first side of the user vehicle; enabling the user vehicle to pass a target vehicle if the target vehicle is determined to be in a lane different from the lane in which the user vehicle is traveling; and causing the user vehicle to abort the pass before completion of the pass, if the target vehicle is determined to be entering the lane in which the user vehicle is traveling.

A travelling support system includes a receiving unit configured to receive parked/stopped vehicle information indicating a detection of a parked/stopped vehicle on a travelling road from a preceding vehicle which is travelling or a sensor on the travelling road; and a predicting unit that predicts, based on the parked/stopped vehicle information and a duration predicting model that predicts a parked/stopped duration as a duration in which the parked/stopped vehicle continues to park or stop, the parked/stopped duration.

A lane change control unit restricts an automatic lane change in the case of predicting that a user's own vehicle after having made the automatic lane change will be adjacent to another vehicle that exists inside of a third lane or on a third lane dividing line, and executes the automatic lane change without restriction in the case of predicting that the user's own vehicle after having made the automatic lane change will be adjacent to another vehicle that exists inside a fourth lane or inside of a road shoulder.

In one or more embodiments, a method comprises receiving, at a processor, an input signal from an input device in response to a first actuation of the input device by a driver of an autonomous vehicle. The input device is a device disposed with the autonomous vehicle and has a second actuation of the input device associated with a standard operation of the input device. The second actuation has an actuation pattern different from an actuation pattern of the first actuation. In response to the input signal, a determination is made by the processor to determine whether the autonomous vehicle can perform a maneuver safely. In response to determining that the autonomous vehicle can perform the maneuver safely, a signal is sent by the processor to cause the autonomous vehicle to perform the maneuver.

A cruise control method and system, and a vehicle, the method being applied to a first vehicle. When the first vehicle is driving in a first lane, before the first vehicle enters from the first lane into a preset recognition region to thereby complete vehicle identity recognition in the preset recognition region, the cut-in probability of a second vehicle cutting into the first lane can be predicted according to a movement parameter of the second vehicle that is in an adjacent second lane, and it is determined, according to the cut-in probability and the stopping time of the first vehicle, whether to brake to stop the first vehicle; therefore, during the process of controlling the first vehicle to pass through the preset recognition region, the driver is not required to temporarily take over control of the first vehicle.