B62D15/026

VEHICULAR CONTROL SYSTEM WITH AUTONOMOUS BRAKING

A vehicular vision system includes a camera and a radar sensor disposed at the equipped vehicle. The system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) and, as the equipped vehicle travels along a road, the ECU, via processing of image data and processing of sensor data, determines other vehicles present on the road ahead of the equipped vehicle. The ECU, responsive to determining the presence of a plurality of other vehicles present on the road, fuses the image data captured by the camera and the sensor data captured by the radar sensor. The ECU, based on the fused data, determines a threat level for each vehicle of the plurality of other vehicles and, when the threat level for one or more vehicles of the plurality of other vehicles exceeds a threshold value, generates a braking command. The ECU transmits the braking command to a braking system of the equipped vehicle.

VEHICULAR CONTROL SYSTEM WITH TRAFFIC JAM ASSIST
20220048509 · 2022-02-17 ·

A vehicular control system includes a camera and an electronic control unit (ECU) that processes image data captured by the camera. The ECU, via processing of the image data, determines lane information of a traffic lane. The lane information includes lane boundaries. The ECU also determines presence of other vehicles on the road ahead of the equipped vehicle. The ECU, responsive to determining presence of a target vehicle ahead of the equipped vehicle, and at least in part via processing by the image data, predicts a change in velocity of the target vehicle relative to the equipped vehicle. The ECU, responsive to determining the lane information and responsive to predicting the change in velocity of the target vehicle, generates longitudinal and lateral commands for centering the vehicle within the traffic lane and maintaining a threshold distance between the equipped vehicle and the target vehicle.

Automatic parking control device

An automatic parking control device is capable of causing a vehicle to correctly reach the next frame without relying on normal parking route regeneration when a determination is made that the vehicle cannot reach the next frame under automatic parking vehicle control along a section route constituting a part of a parking route. When a determination is made whether the next frame is located on an extension of the current section route and the determination result shows that the next frame is located on the extension, the host vehicle travels further. When the determination is made whether the next frame is located on a remaining section of the current section route and the determination result shows that the next frame is located on the remaining section, the host vehicle decelerates earlier, thereby allowing the host vehicle to reach and come to a stop at the next frame.

Vehicle control method and vehicle control device

A vehicle control method for controlling a vehicle using a vehicle control apparatus includes: a sensor configured to detect a state outside a subject vehicle; and a control device. The vehicle control method includes: executing control of recovering a travel trajectory of the subject vehicle to a target trajectory, as ordinary control, by giving a steering amount in a lateral direction with respect to a travel lane of the subject vehicle; using detection data of the sensor to determine whether or not another vehicle is traveling in an adjacent lane to the travel lane of the subject vehicle; and when determining that the other vehicle is traveling in the adjacent lane ahead of the subject vehicle, increasing a response of the steering amount to a higher response than that in the ordinary control, before the subject vehicle passes the other vehicle.

Driving supporter

A driving supporter includes a support inhibitor that inhibits support of driving when a steering-operation value is greater than a threshold value. The support inhibitor includes a threshold-value determiner that determines the threshold value to a value greater when a first object and a second object are present than when the first object is present, and the second object is absent. The first object has a relationship in which a relative positional relationship between the object and an own vehicle is a relationship in which a steering operation is estimated to be performed in a first direction in which the own vehicle avoids the object. The second object has a relationship in which the relative positional relationship is a relationship in which the steering operation is estimated to be performed in a second direction reverse to the first direction such that the own vehicle avoids the object.

Group of Vehicles, Method for Operating the Group of Vehicles, Computer Program and Computer-Readable Storage Medium
20210269029 · 2021-09-02 · ·

Various embodiments include a group of vehicles comprising: a following vehicle; and a leading vehicle following a trajectory. The following vehicle includes a driver assistance system providing autonomous tracking behind on a trajectory of the leading vehicle. The trajectory defines a target steering angle transmitted to the driver assistance system from the leading vehicle to the following vehicle. The following vehicle has an actual steering angle occurring as a result of executing the target steering angle. A detection device senses a steering angle deviation between the leading vehicle and the following vehicle. A processing unit generates a corrective actuating signal to correct the actual steering angle if there is a steering angle deviation.

CONVOY TRAVEL SYSTEM

A convoy travel system includes a plurality of vehicles and is configured such that the plurality of vehicles form a convoy and travel. The plurality of vehicles include a preceding vehicle and following vehicles configured so as to follow the preceding vehicle by means of automatic driving. The preceding vehicle is equipped with a steering information acquisition unit configured so as to acquire steering information pertaining to steering of the preceding vehicle, and a transmission unit configured so as to transmit the steering information to the following vehicles. The following vehicles are equipped with a reception unit configured so as to receive the steering information, and an automatic driving control unit configured so as to begin a steering angle control for avoiding a collision with an obstruction when the steering information indicates the execution of emergency steering for avoiding a collision with the obstruction.

System to automate hitching a trailer

A vehicle hitch assistance system includes comprising an imaging system, a steering system, a dead reckoning device and a controller. The controller determines a hitch location within a vehicle exterior image received from the imaging system and controls the steering system to guide the vehicle in a reverse direction to align a hitch ball of the vehicle with the hitch location, including by tracking the location of the vehicle using information received from the dead reckoning device.

VEHICLE POSITION PROCESSING APPARATUS, VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE POSITION PROCESSING METHOD, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

To provide a vehicle position processing apparatus, a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle position processing method, and a vehicle control method capable of increasing the number of the position information of front object used for generation of the trajectory and improving the generation accuracy of the trajectory. A vehicle position processing apparatus, a vehicle control apparatus, a vehicle position processing method, and a vehicle control method that obtains positions of a target object, sets a trajectory generation range which is a continuous range including a position of the target object close to a position of the present own vehicle, selects positions of the target object included in the trajectory generation range among the plural positions of the target object, as target object positions for trajectory generation, and generates a trajectory of the target object based on the target object positions for trajectory generation.

SADDLE RIDE TYPE VEHICLE AND CONTROL APPARATUS

The present invention provides a saddle ride type vehicle including a sensing unit configured to sense a four-wheel vehicle that is present in front of a self-vehicle and is traveling in a travel lane of the self-vehicle, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the four-wheel vehicle is sensed by the sensing unit, perform follow-travel control for causing traveling of the self-vehicle to follow traveling of the four-wheel vehicle, wherein the sensing unit senses a vehicle width of the four-wheel vehicle, and the control unit, in the follow-travel control, controls a travel position in a vehicle width direction of the self-vehicle so that at least a portion of the self-vehicle falls within a region within the vehicle width of the four-wheel vehicle.