Abstract: A vehicle control device includes at least one electronic control unit configured to recognize at least one object, calculate a time to collision, operate first driving assistance, when the time to collision is equal to or less than a first threshold value, operate second driving assistance for avoiding the collision between the at least one object and the host vehicle or reducing damage of the collision, when the time to collision is equal to or less than a second threshold value smaller than the first threshold value, and set, while the first driving assistance is operated, the second threshold value to a second setting value smaller than a first setting value set when the first driving assistance is not operated, when a second target object causing the second driving assistance to operate is the same object as a first target object causing the first driving assistance to operate.

Abstract: A braking assist control device for a vehicle including a detector and a braking assist control device is provided. The braking assist control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an ambient environment of an own vehicle from the detector, and a control unit configured to cause the braking assist device to perform intersection entry prevention assist in a case where it is determined, using the acquired information on the ambient environment, that the own vehicle is approaching an intersection and an own lane in which the own vehicle is traveling is a non-priority lane with respect to an intersecting lane.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a camera sensor and an ECU. The ECU defines a specified area based on a position of a stationary object when the recognized objects include the stationary object. The ECU performs first driving support for reducing a possibility of a collision between a moving body and the host vehicle when the recognized objects include the moving body which is positioned within the specified area. Boundary lines partitioning the specified area include a first traveling direction boundary line extending in a traveling direction of the host vehicle. An inside of the specified area is a side on which the stationary object is positioned with respect to the first traveling direction boundary line. The first traveling direction boundary line is set on a side opposite to the stationary object across a reference line set based on a predicted course of the host vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus activates a safety device for avoiding a collision of an own vehicle with a target or reducing damage caused by the collision. The vehicle control apparatus sets an activation condition for the safety device. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether each of a plurality of correction conditions for the activation condition is satisfied. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether to activate the safety device on the basis of the activation condition. The vehicle control apparatus sets the activation condition by correcting a reference condition on the basis of a correction value for a satisfied correction condition, and correcting the corrected reference condition on the basis of a correction value (destination correction value) for each destination.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an electronic control unit configured to: recognize at least one object; determine a risk of the at least one object entering a course of the host vehicle; and perform, when the at least one object enters a target area set in front of the host vehicle with respect to the host vehicle, driving support. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether the risk is high or low based on a relative relationship between two or more objects, and the electronic control unit is configured to set the target area to be larger when it is determined that the risk is high than when it is determined that the risk is low.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a camera sensor and an ECU. The ECU defines a specified area based on a position of a stationary object when the recognized objects include the stationary object. The ECU performs first driving support for reducing a possibility of a collision between a moving body and the host vehicle when the recognized objects include the moving body which is positioned within the specified area. Boundary lines partitioning the specified area include a first traveling direction boundary line extending in a traveling direction of the host vehicle. An inside of the specified area is a side on which the stationary object is positioned with respect to the first traveling direction boundary line. The first traveling direction boundary line is set on a side opposite to the stationary object across a reference line set based on a predicted course of the host vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes at least one electronic control unit configured to recognize at least one object, calculate a time to collision, operate first driving assistance, when the time to collision is equal to or less than a first threshold value, operate second driving assistance for avoiding the collision between the at least one object and the host vehicle or reducing damage of the collision, when the time to collision is equal to or less than a second threshold value smaller than the first threshold value, and set, while the first driving assistance is operated, the second threshold value to a second setting value smaller than a first setting value set when the first driving assistance is not operated, when a second target object causing the second driving assistance to operate is the same object as a first target object causing the first driving assistance to operate.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a timing setter that sets an activation timing indicative of whether to activate the safety device based on a comparison between the activation timing and a time to collision, and a determination zone setter setting determination zones located diagonally ahead of the own vehicle in the travelling direction and separated in the lateral direction. The apparatus includes a corrector that performs, based on a zone-to-zone movement history of the recognized target object among the determination zones, a correction task including at least one of a first changing task of changing the width of an activation region, and a second changing task of changing the activation timing. The apparatus includes an activation determiner that activates a safety device upon determining that a position of the recognized target object is within the activation region and that the time to collision is smaller than the activation timing.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a camera sensor and an ECU. The ECU defines a specified area based on a position of a stationary object when the recognized objects include the stationary object. The ECU performs first driving support for reducing a possibility of a collision between a moving body and the host vehicle when the recognized objects include the moving body which is positioned within the specified area. Boundary lines partitioning the specified area include a first traveling direction boundary line extending in a traveling direction of the host vehicle. An inside of the specified area is a side on which the stationary object is positioned with respect to the first traveling direction boundary line. The first traveling direction boundary line is set on a side opposite to the stationary object across a reference line set based on a predicted course of the host vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes at least one electronic control unit configured to recognize at least one object, calculate a time to collision, operate first driving assistance, when the time to collision is equal to or less than a first threshold value, operate second driving assistance for avoiding the collision between the at least one object and the host vehicle or reducing damage of the collision, when the time to collision is equal to or less than a second threshold value smaller than the first threshold value, and set, while the first driving assistance is operated, the second threshold value to a second setting value smaller than a first setting value set when the first driving assistance is not operated, when a second target object causing the second driving assistance to operate is the same object as a first target object causing the first driving assistance to operate.

Abstract: An ECU drives a brake device of a vehicle to reduce a collision risk with an object or collision damage of the vehicle. The ECU acquires position information of the object based on a combination of data transmitted from a radar device and an in-vehicle camera. The ECU performs a first judgment to detect whether to drive the brake device based on the acquired position information of the object. The ECU further performs a second judgment to detect whether to drive the brake device based on another calculation process. The ECU diagnoses the result of the first judgment. When the result of the first judgment is correct, an operation limitation part in the ECU transmits the result of the first judgment to the control processing part to drive the brake device, and when incorrect, prohibits the transmission of the result of the first judgment to the control processing part.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus calculates a position at which a distance between a pedestrian and the own vehicle becomes zero in a travelling direction of the own vehicle as a predicted collision position. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether the pedestrian is crossing a course of the own vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus sets a limit value indicating a width of a determination region in a lateral direction perpendicular to the travelling direction of the own vehicle, and determines whether the pedestrian is present within the course of the own vehicle based on the predicted collision position and the limit value. The vehicle control apparatus sets one of a left and right limit values of a determination region in which the predicted collision position is present in the travelling direction of the own vehicle to be greater than the limit value of the other.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided which includes position detecting means for detecting a position of a detected target using reflection information derived from a radar device 21, first determining means for determining whether the detected target is expected to be an obstacle not based on an intensity of a received reflected wave contained in the reflection information, and second determining means for determining whether an obstacle exists at the position, as detected by the position detecting means, or not using the image information. When the second determining means determines that the obstacle exists, and when a distance between an own vehicle and the detected target is smaller than a given threshold value, the detected target is determined as a target with which collision should be avoided regardless of a result of determination made by the first determining means.

Abstract: A vehicle control device obtains, a relative distance of an object to an own vehicle in the travel direction of the own vehicle and a lateral position that is a relative location of the object to the own vehicle in a lateral direction orthogonal to the travel direction. The vehicle control device sets a limit value indicating the lateral width of a determination region for determining whether or not the object is present in the traveling path of the own vehicle. The vehicle control device determines, on the basis of the lateral position of the object and the limit value for the determination region, whether or not the object is present in the traveling path of the own vehicle. The vehicle control device extends the determination region width by correcting the limit value when the object is a vehicle and the relative distance is less than a predetermined distance.

Abstract: When it is determined by an acceleration condition determiner that an own vehicle is accelerating, a collision prediction time calculator calculates a collision prediction time in accordance with a relative speed and a relative distance, and a timing setter sets an activation timing to a reference timing. When it is determined by the acceleration condition determiner that the own vehicle is not accelerating, and by a preceding object determiner that an object is not a preceding object, the collision prediction time calculator calculates the collision prediction time in accordance with the relative speed, a relative acceleration, and the relative distance, and the timing setter is configured to set the activation timing to be larger than the reference timing.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a collision time calculation section configured to calculate a time-to-collision; an activation region setting section configured to set an activation region to an area present ahead of and in the travelling direction of an own vehicle, the activation region having a predetermined width in a lateral direction that is orthogonal to a path of the own vehicle; a timing setting section configured to set timing activating a safety device; a determination region setting section configured to set a determination region to an area present diagonally ahead of and in the travelling direction of the own vehicle, the determination region having a predetermined width in the lateral direction; a timer section configured to measure a time for which a target stays in the determination region; a correction section configured to perform, in a case where the time measured by the timer section is long, a process for decreasing the width of the activation region and a process for decreasing ac

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus accumulates a history of timings of avoidance operations performed by a driver of with respect to objects that are at prescribed distances ahead of a host vehicle, and calculates a distribution of the timings of the avoidance operations. Based on the distribution of the timings of the avoidance operations, the vehicle control apparatus sets the output timing of a warning to the driver such that interference does not occur between the avoidance operation and an avoidance operation that is actually performed by the driver, and furthermore the vehicle control apparatus judges the risk of a collision with the host vehicle, with the judgement based on the position of an object that is ahead of the host vehicle, and changes the output timing of the warning based on results of the judgement of risk.

Abstract: In a driving assistance device, A arrival position calculation unit specifies an object position on an XY plane, and calculates a predicted arrival position when an object arrives at an X axis based upon a calculated travel trajectory by calculating the travel trajectory of the object. An operation permission unit permits automatic brake operation based upon a collision determination between an own vehicle and the object, when the predicted arrival position falls within a range of an operation target width. An overlapping region extraction unit sets detection error regions on the XY plane, respectively, and extracts a region where both detection error regions set are overlapped with each other as an overlapping region. A setting unit enlarges an operation target width after an automatic-brake-operation start when a characteristic amount condition relating to a size of the overlapping region is satisfied.

Abstract: A vehicle control device generates a fusion target by fusion of a radar target of an object ahead of the own vehicle acquired as a reflected wave of a carrier wave and an image target of the object acquired by image processing of an acquired image of a region ahead of the own vehicle and performs vehicle control of the own vehicle for the object detected as the fusion target. The vehicle control device determines whether a state where the object is detected with the fusion target has transitioned to a state where the object is detected with only the radar target; determines whether a distance to the object is a predetermined short distance when the state is determined to have transitioned to the state where the object is detected with only the radar target; and performs the vehicle control for to the object when the distance to the object is determined to be the predetermined short distance.

Abstract: An object detecting apparatus is provided which includes relative speed obtaining means for obtaining a relative speed of a nearby object, relative acceleration calculating means for calculating a relative acceleration of the object from the relative speed, and limiting means for setting an upper limit of the relative acceleration when a given condition where a degree of reliability of a detected value of the relative speed is expected to be low is met and then also limiting the value of the relative acceleration using the upper limit when the given condition is met. The object detecting apparatus is capable of executing a control task accurately using a value of the relative acceleration calculated based on a detected value of the relative speed.