Abstract: In a case in which a lane change operation is to be performed, a control unit performs travel control in accordance with a lane change mode selected among lane change modes. The lane change modes include a first mode in which the driver plans the lane change operation, and the driver issues an instruction to start the lane change operation, and a second mode in which the control unit plans the lane change operation, and the driver issues the instruction to start the lane change operation. An amount of operation performed by the driver to issue the instruction to the start of the lane change operation in the second mode is less than that in the first mode.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a control instruction unit (ALC switch) that gives an instruction to perform one of lane change assistance control in which guidance of lane change is provided to a vehicle occupant through a notification unit (HMI) and automated lane change control in which travel control required for movement from a travel lane to a target lane is automatically performed as lane change control performed in the lane change in accordance with vehicle occupant's operation.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a virtual line setter configured to set virtual lines in front of a gate on the basis of the position of the gate, and a gate passing controller configured to perform vehicle control when a vehicle passes through the gate on the basis of the virtual lines set by the virtual line setter.

Abstract: A vehicle control device (1) includes an automated driving control unit (100) configured to execute automated driving of a vehicle and an acquisition unit (124) configured to acquire movement states in a running direction and a lateral direction of the vehicle. The automated driving control unit is configured to execute the automated driving such that the movement states which have been acquired by the acquisition unit before the automated driving has been started are maintained in a predetermined time or a predetermined distance when automated driving has been started by switching from manual driving.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus comprises a setting unit that sets a target position within a lane currently being traveled, and a steering controller that carries out steering control based on the target position. The steering controller can accept a steering input resulting from a manual operation, even when steering control is being carried out, generates a counterforce against the manual operation, and controls steering counterforce characteristics so that when the target position is distanced, in a width direction, from a first reference position near the center of the lane, the steering counterforce against a manual operation in a first direction from the target position toward the first reference position is lower than the steering counterforce against a manual operation in a second direction different from the first direction with respect to a manual operation at a given steering angle.

Abstract: A passing gate determining device including: an information acquirer configured to acquire a status of vehicles in front of gates in a place in which a plurality of gates are aligned; and a gate selector configured to select a gate through which a vehicle is to pass among the plurality of gates on the basis of the status acquired by the information acquirer.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle selector configured to select, from among other vehicles present near an own vehicle, another vehicle that the own vehicle is to follow when traveling in front of a gate as a following target vehicle, and a gate passage controller configured to cause the own vehicle to travel following the following target vehicle selected by the vehicle selector when passing through the gate.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a detector configured to detect a surrounding object of a host vehicle, a generator configured to generate a first target trajectory on the basis of a shape of a traveling path in which the host vehicle travels, a first potential calculator configured to calculate a guiding potential which represents safety of traveling along the first target trajectory, a second potential calculator configured to calculate a surrounding potential which represents safety based on a surrounding object of the host vehicle, a third potential calculator configured to calculate a traveling potential, which represents safety when the host vehicle is moved in a direction intersecting a traveling direction of the host vehicle at each point included in an area in which the host vehicle will be traveling in the future based on the first target trajectory, on the basis of the guiding potential and the surrounding potential, and a traveling controller configured to perform traveling control of the host v

Abstract: After stop control and before start control, if a situation monitoring unit does not detect predetermined change of a peripheral situation or a host vehicle situation, a travel control unit performs the start control at the normal control amount, and if the situation monitoring unit detects the predetermined change of the peripheral situation or the host vehicle situation, the travel control unit performs the start control at the control amount that is suppressed compared with the normal control amount.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a driver of a switching request from automated driving to manual driving, and a setting unit configured to set a notification timing of the notification unit. In a case in which a course change of a vehicle is needed up to a predetermined point during the automated driving, the setting unit sets a timing that comes earliest from a plurality of candidates of the notification timing. The plurality of candidates includes a first candidate based on a condition necessary for completing the course change by the manual driving up to the predetermined point, and a second candidate based on a condition necessary for setting the vehicle in a predetermined standby state by the automated driving up to the predetermined point.

Abstract: In start control, a travel control unit makes a first acceleration in a first control state set by a control state setting unit, lower than a second acceleration in a second control state set by the control state setting unit. A burden on a vehicle occupant in the second control state is larger than that in the first control state.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: an operation detection unit that detects an operation input of a user for an operation input unit; a speed setting unit that sets travel speed of a host vehicle on the basis of the operation input that is detected by the operation detection unit; and a lane change control unit that controls lane change. If the operation input that decreases, by more than or equal to a predetermined degree, setting travel speed that is the speed set by the speed setting unit, or the operation input that decreases the setting travel speed to be lower than current travel speed of the host vehicle, is performed after the lane change is started, the lane change control unit cancels the lane change.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a controller that sets a target area, and that executes a lane change of the host vehicle toward the set target area, the target area being an area which is a target for the host vehicle when performing the lane change to an adjacent lane which is adjacent to an own traffic lane on which the host vehicle is traveling, and a direction indicator controller that determines a timing for operating a direction indicator installed on the host vehicle on the basis of a relative relationship between the host vehicle and a vehicle that is traveling in front of or at rear of the target area set by the controller and the host vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle control unit includes: a lane change control unit that performs lane change control in which a host vehicle changes lanes on the basis of a surrounding situation of the host vehicle; and a lane change control suppression unit that allows the lane change control in a case where there is no operation history indicating that an operation of a notification unit for notifying a direction to which a traveling direction of the host vehicle is changed is not normal, and suppresses the lane change control in a case where the operation history indicating that the operation of the notification unit is not normal is present.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a recommended lane setter configured to set a recommended lane of a travel schedule in automatic driving; and an automatic driving controller configured to constrain an own vehicle from passing another vehicle when the own vehicle is traveling in the recommended lane set by the recommended lane setter by automatic driving and the recommended lane is a lane of a branching source in a branching spot in front of the own vehicle in a movement direction.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize situations around a vehicle; a determiner configured to determine any of lanes included in a road on which the vehicle travels as a reference lane; and a driving controller configured to control at least one of a speed and steering of the vehicle according to the situations recognized by the recognizer and the reference lane determined by the determiner, wherein the determiner is configured to, when the vehicle moves from a first road to a second road different from the first road, among a plurality of lanes included in the first road, according to a relative position of a first reference lane determined at a time before the vehicle moves to the second road with respect to the plurality of lanes, determine a second reference lane on the second road.

Abstract: In a vehicle control system (1) configured for autonomous driving, and having a control unit (15) configured to execute a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop area when it is detected that the control unit or the driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, the control unit determines if a person is present within a predetermined range from the vehicle according to information obtained by a surrounding condition acquiring unit (61), the control unit causing the external notification device (14) to generate the acoustic notification at a first notification volume when a person is present within the predetermined range, and at a second notification volume higher than the first notification volume when a person is not present within the predetermined range.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, comprising, a setting unit that accepts setting of a destination; an acquisition unit that acquires peripheral information of the vehicle; and a control unit that controls traveling of the vehicle based on the peripheral information, wherein the control unit executes, if the destination has been set, first control in which first assist for a course change is performed in accordance with a case in which the vehicle has entered a course change area from a first road existing on a traveling route to the destination to a second road connected to the first road, and executes, if the destination has not been set, second control in which second assist with an assist level lower than in the first assist is performed on a road existing on a current traveling route.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a control instruction unit (ALC switch) that gives an instruction to perform one of lane change assistance control in which guidance of lane change is provided to a vehicle occupant through a notification unit (HMI) and automated lane change control in which travel control required for movement from a travel lane to a target lane is automatically performed as lane change control performed in the lane change in accordance with vehicle occupant's operation.

Abstract: A vehicle control unit includes: a lane change control unit that performs lane change control in which a host vehicle changes lanes on the basis of a surrounding situation of the host vehicle; and a lane change control suppression unit that allows the lane change control in a case where there is no operation history indicating that an operation of a notification unit for notifying a direction to which a traveling direction of the host vehicle is changed is not normal, and suppresses the lane change control in a case where the operation history indicating that the operation of the notification unit is not normal is present.