Abstract: An articulated vehicle includes a tractor and a trailer. A control device for the articulated vehicle is configured to execute a setting process and a non-transmission steering process. The setting process is a process of setting a target steered angle of the non-transmission steered wheel, using a value of a trailer sway variable as an input. The trailer sway variable includes at least one of the following two variables: a variable indicating behavior of the yaw angle of the articulated vehicle, and a front-wheel steered angle variable. The front-wheel steered angle variable is a variable indicating a steered angle of a steered front wheel of the tractor. The non-transmission steering process is a process of steering the non-transmission steered wheel in accordance with the target steered angle set by the setting process.

Abstract: A driving assist apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires information obtained by sensors and information related to an own vehicle; and an assist unit that performs a driving assist operation of the own vehicle, based on a sensor that detects an intersecting object and a yaw rate of the intersecting object, in which the assist unit executes a first braking control that brakes the own vehicle in the case where the yaw rate of the intersecting object is within a predetermined range and the sensor that detects the intersecting object is at least a front sensor; and executes a second braking control that brakes the own vehicle with a braking force smaller than that of the first braking control in the case where the yaw rate of the intersecting object is within a predetermined range and the sensor that detects the intersecting object is only a lateral sensor.

Abstract: A processor of an apparatus for learning a recognition rule of at least one parking slot around a vehicle is configured to execute learning program instructions to accordingly objectify at least one parking slot at least partly included in a learning image as an at least one objectified parking slot comprised of (i) a plurality of corner points of the at least one parking slot, (ii) a center point of the at least one parking slot; and (iii) attribute information on the at least one parking slot. The processor is configured to execute learning program instructions to accordingly generate annotation data for the objectified at least one parking slot, and execute, from the learning image, learning of a recognition rule of the at least one parking slot based on the generated annotation data for the objectified at least one parking slot.

Abstract: A notification device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires images, a steady-state determination unit that determines whether a non-temporary malfunction state occurs in the camera system, a memory processing unit that stores malfunction information in a storage area, a start-up determination unit that determines whether the non-temporary malfunction state exists during the period until the steady-state determination unit is able to determine the occurrence of the non-temporary malfunction state, and an alarm output process processing unit that outputs an alarm when each determination unit determines that the non-temporary malfunction state exists.

Abstract: A motion manager for a vehicle includes one or more processors, and the one or more processors are configured to: receive acceleration request values from a plurality of applications and driver assistance levels associated with the respective acceleration request values; select the smallest acceleration request value of the plurality of acceleration request values received; select the highest driver assistance level of the plurality of driver assistance levels received; and while outputting a specified value according to the selected acceleration request value to an actuator of the vehicle, stop the output of the specified value under a condition according to the selected driver assistance level.

Abstract: A controller for a four-wheel steering vehicle sets a command front wheel steering angle, which is a commanded value of a front wheel steering angle, and a command rear wheel steering angle, which is a commanded value of a rear wheel steering angle. The controller acquires the front wheel steering angle and the rear wheel steering angle. The controller calculates an ideal yaw rate based on the command front wheel steering angle and the command rear wheel steering angle as input variables. The controller calculates an estimated yaw rate based on the front wheel steering angle and the rear wheel steering angle as input variables. The controller calculates a deviation of the estimated yaw rate from the ideal yaw rate. The controller corrects at least one of the command front wheel steering angle and the command rear wheel steering angle based on the deviation as an input variable.

Abstract: A brake control device includes: an acquisition section that acquires a steering angle and a first steering angular velocity passed through a first low-pass filter; a braking processing section that decides to apply braking force to a wheel by a brake device when the absolute value of steering angle is not less than a predetermined angle and the absolute value of first steering angular velocity is not less than a predetermined velocity; and a control section that drives the brake device according to the braking processing section's decision. The acquisition section acquires a second steering angular velocity including higher frequency components than the first steering angular velocity, the braking processing section decides to execute predetermined preload control when the absolute value of second steering angular velocity is not less than the predetermined velocity, and the control section executes preload control on the brake device to improve the brake device's responsiveness.

Abstract: An articulated vehicle includes a tractor and a trailer. The tractor includes an input unit and steered wheels. A control device executes switching determination processing, tractor steering processing, and trailer steering processing. The switching determination processing is processing of determining whether a reverse assist mode is in an on state or an off state. The tractor steering processing is processing of steering the tractor in response to an input operation to the input unit in a case in which the reverse assist mode is in the off state. The trailer steering processing is processing of operating the steered angle of the steered wheels in order to steer the trailer in response to an input operation to the input unit in a case in which the reverse assist mode is in the on state, in a state in which power transmission between the input unit and the steered wheels is interrupted.

Abstract: A combination vehicle includes a tractor including a steered wheel and a trailer towed by the tractor. A control device for the combination vehicle includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to, when a reverse operation of the combination vehicle is performed, assist a reverse operation of the trailer by causing a controlled variable to follow a target value of reverse control that is set through a specific operation by an operator. The control unit is configured to execute a process of limiting the target value and a process of limiting a time rate of change in the target value from a viewpoint of suppressing occurrence of a jackknife phenomenon.

Abstract: In a control apparatus, upon determination that an obstacle has a collision possibility, an operation determiner determines to instruct a notification system to issue, to an occupant, a notification related to the collision possibility with the obstacle. The operation determiner determines whether a collision-avoidance operation has been carried out by the occupant since the issuance of the notification. The operation determiner determines not to instruct the vehicle motion control system to execute a collision-avoidance assistance operation upon determination that (i) no collision-avoidance operations have been carried out by the occupant since the issuance of the notification and (ii) the obstacle having the collision possibility is a low-height object, the low-height object being defined as an object that has fallen on a road and has a height that is sufficiently low that the vehicle is enabled to pass over the obstacle.

Abstract: An articulated vehicle includes a tractor and a trailer that is towed by the tractor. The articulated vehicle is provided with an interface for a driver to instruct a target virtual steering angle which is a target value of a virtual steering angle. The virtual steering angle is a variable that indicates a direction of travel of a linking point between the trailer and the tractor. The control device is configured to execute processing of acquiring the target virtual steering angle, virtual steering angle control processing of operating a steering system of the articulated vehicle to control the virtual steering angle to the target virtual steering angle, and processing of restricting an absolute value of vehicle speed of the articulated vehicle to a small side with the target virtual steering angle as input during execution of the virtual steering angle control processing.

Abstract: A backward movement control device performs a backward movement control of an articulated vehicle including a tractor that includes steered wheels and a trailer towed by the tractor. The tractor is equipped with a steering control device that executes feedback control for causing a steered angle of the steered wheels of the tractor to follow a target steered angle. The backward movement control device includes a control unit configured to calculate the target steered angle such that a virtual steered angle follows a target virtual steered angle when a backward movement operation of the articulated vehicle is performed. The virtual steered angle is a steered angle of steered wheels that are virtually present in the trailer if the trailer is regarded as a rigid vehicle. The target virtual steered angle is a target value of the virtual steered angle that is set through a specific operation by an operator.

Abstract: A computation device of an articulated vehicle is configured to execute curvature variable acquisition processing, trailer length variable acquisition processing, and virtual steering angle calculation processing. The curvature variable acquisition processing is processing of acquiring a value of a curvature variable. The curvature variable is a variable indicating a curvature of a path of travel of the trailer. The trailer length variable acquisition processing is processing of acquiring a value of a trailer length variable. The trailer length variable is a variable indicating a length of the trailer. The virtual steering angle calculation processing is processing of calculating a virtual steering angle using the value of the curvature variable and the value of the trailer length variable as inputs. The virtual steering angle is an angle indicating a displacement direction of a linking point between the trailer and the tractor.

Abstract: A brake control device includes a processor that controls a brake device of a vehicle. The processor receives a first braking request indicating first braking force by the brake device which is requested from an application that implements a driver assistance function of the vehicle. The processor receives a second braking request indicating second braking force by the brake device which is requested depending on an operation amount of a brake pedal of the vehicle. The processor starts override control when the processor receives the second braking request while the processor controls the brake device in accordance with the first braking request.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: a reaction device that applies a steering reaction force to a steering operation performed by a driver on a driver's vehicle; and a control device that executes steering reaction force control for controlling a value of the steering reaction force. The control device applies, to a steering operation, a reaction force having a reference value as a steering reaction force when a lane change of a driver's vehicle is not performed during execution of steering reaction force control. When the lane change of the driver's vehicle is performed, the control device sets the steering reaction force to be applied to the steering operation in a direction of the lane change of the driver's vehicle to a value smaller than the reference value.

Abstract: A motion manager for a vehicle, includes one or more processors configured to: receive motion requests from a plurality of applications, one or more of the applications being travel applications for controlling at least one of an acceleration of the vehicle or a steering angle of the vehicle, and another one or more of the applications being human-machine interface (HMI) applications for implementing transfer of information from the vehicle to an occupant; perform arbitration of the motion requests that have been received; when the motion requests have been received from the HMI applications, calculate the instruction information based on a different type arbitration result obtained by arbitrating the motion requests from the HMI applications and the result of the arbitration of the motion requests from the travel applications; and output the calculated instruction information to a control device for the actuator.

Abstract: A vehicle control device to be applied to a vehicle including parking brakes provided in association with right and left wheels and configured to be driven to bring the wheels into a non-rotatable state includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire abnormality occurrence information on each of the right and left parking brakes. The processor is configured to, when an abnormality condition that a drive command is output to each of the parking brakes and one of the parking brakes has an abnormality is satisfied, control a device other than the parking brakes in the vehicle to suppress rotation of the wheel provided with the parking brake having the abnormality.

Abstract: A travel control device is configured to execute: a coasting travel process; a cruise travel process, a gradient information acquisition process acquiring, as gradient information, information indicating a gradient of a road surface on which a vehicle is traveling; a deviation variable acquisition process acquiring a deviation variable for determining an acceleration generated in the vehicle when the vehicle travels, by performing the coasting travel process, a downward slope having a predetermined gradient; and a switching process using the gradient information and the deviation variable as inputs and performing switching to the coasting travel process according to a value of the deviation variable even though a magnitude of the gradient of the road surface is different from a reference value.

Abstract: A motion manager for a vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive acceleration request values from a plurality of applications and driver assistance levels associated with the respective acceleration request values; select the highest driver assistance level of the driver assistance levels received; select the smallest acceleration request value of the acceleration request values associated with the selected driver assistance level; output a specified value according to the selected acceleration request value to an actuator of the vehicle; and stop the output of the specified value under a condition according to the selected driver assistance level.

Abstract: A control device is applied to a combination vehicle including a tractor and a trailer that is towed by the tractor. The control device is configured to perform a hitch angle variable acquisition process, a steered angle variable acquisition process, a virtual steering angle variable calculation process, a target virtual steering angle variable acquisition process, and a feedback process.