Abstract: Vehicle systems and methods for determining a final target position based on either a first target position and a second target position are disclosed. A vehicle includes a user detection system configured to output a gesture signal in response to a hand of a user performing at least one gesture to indicate a final target position. The vehicle also includes a user gaze monitoring system configured to output an eye location signal that indicates an actual eye position of the user. The vehicle also includes one or more processors and one or more non-transitory memory modules communicatively coupled to the processors. The processors store machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to select either the first target position or the second target position as the final target position based on a first accuracy and a second accuracy.

Abstract: Vehicle systems and methods for determining a target position that a user is gesturing towards are disclosed. In one embodiment, a vehicle includes a user detection system configured to output a gesture signal in response to a hand of the user performing at least one gesture to indicate a target position, a user gaze monitoring system configured to output an eye location signal, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. The memory modules store machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to determine a point located on the hand of the user based at least in part on the gesture signal from the user detection system. The processors are also caused to determine an actual eye position of the user based on the eye location signal from the user gaze monitoring system.

Abstract: Vehicle systems and methods for determining a target position are disclosed. A vehicle includes a user detection system configured to output a gesture signal in response to a hand of a user performing at least one gesture to indicate a final target position. The vehicle also includes a user gaze monitoring system configured to output an eye location signal that indicates an actual eye position of the user. The vehicle also includes one or more processors and one or more non-transitory memory modules communicatively coupled to the processors. The processors store machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to determine a first point and a second point located on the hand of the user based at least in part on the gesture signal from the user detection system. The first point and the second point define a pointing axis of the hand of the user.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes: an estimation unit configured to estimate a brake-on vehicle speed as a vehicle speed at which a driver of a vehicle starts a brake operation, based on information related to deceleration of the vehicle and vehicle-speed information; a deceleration-operation-point calculation unit configured to calculate location information of a deceleration-operation point where the driver of the vehicle starts a deceleration operation, based on the brake-on vehicle speed; and an information presentation unit configured to present driving assistance information for prompting the driver of the vehicle to perform the deceleration operation, corresponding to the calculated location information of the deceleration-operation point and a running position of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle travel control device that makes a vehicle travel on the basis of a target travel trajectory, wherein when it is determined that the direction of the vehicle is outward in the lane width direction on the basis of the lane center of the target lane, the vehicle travel control device generates the target travel trajectory on the assumption that the direction of the vehicle is a direction along the lane center of the target lane or is inward in the lane width direction on the basis of the lane center of the target lane.

Abstract: A misrecognition determination device is provided. The misrecognition determination device may be configured such that a plurality of traveling parameters that is used for driving control of a vehicle and is based on input data is calculated, a difference between each two of the plurality of traveling parameters is calculated, a weighting coefficient is calculated according to an orthogonality between each two pieces of input data in a traveling situation of the vehicle, and a determination is made whether misrecognition has occurred in a parameter group, which includes the plurality of traveling parameters, using the values each generated by multiplying the difference by the weighting coefficient.

Abstract: Provided is a lane following control device in which an uncomfortable feeling of a driver can be suppressed. In a case where shift processing is performed on a first adjacent vehicle X1, and when a distance between a second adjacent vehicle X2 travelling immediately front of the first adjacent vehicle X1 and the first adjacent vehicle X1 is equal to or less than a vehicle-to-vehicle distance threshold value and a lane width direction distance between the second adjacent vehicle X2 and a travelling lane R1 of the host vehicle V is equal to or less than a lane width direction threshold value, a target lateral position setting unit 14 maintains the shift processing on the first adjacent vehicle X1 until the shift processing is performed on the second adjacent vehicle X2.

Abstract: An autonomous driving device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a value corresponding to a steering operation during an autonomous driving, and a control unit configured to perform the autonomous driving and to control switching of a driving state between the autonomous driving and a manual driving. In a case where a first value corresponding to the steering operation is equal to or greater than a first threshold value and a second value corresponding to the steering operation before the driving state is switched from the autonomous driving in progress to the manual driving is equal to or greater than a second threshold value, the control unit decelerates the vehicle and switches the driving state from the autonomous driving in progress to the manual driving.

Abstract: The apparatus includes: a lane change assistance unit configured to perform the lane change assistance after elapse of a margin time set in advance from the time when a direction indicator at the adjacent lane side is switched to an ON-state by a driver of the vehicle; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an amount of steering to the adjacent lane side by the driver during the margin time is equal to or greater than a steering amount threshold value, or to determine whether or not the vehicle moves to the adjacent lane side due to a driver's steering during the margin time by a lateral distance set in advance.

Abstract: An autonomous driving device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a value corresponding to a steering operation during an autonomous driving, and a control unit configured to perform the autonomous driving and to control switching of a driving state between the autonomous driving and a manual driving. In a case where a first value corresponding to the steering operation is equal to or greater than a first threshold value and a second value corresponding to the steering operation before the driving state is switched from the autonomous driving in progress to the manual driving is equal to or greater than a second threshold value, the control unit decelerates the vehicle and switches the driving state from the autonomous driving in progress to the manual driving.

Abstract: There is provided an autonomous driving device that improves the convenience for a driver in the switching between autonomous driving and manual driving. When the driver discovers an obstacle which cannot be detected by an autonomous driving device, and performs a driving operation which causes a manual driving switching threshold value to be exceeded for an operation time less than or equal to an operation threshold value so as to avoid the obstacle, a control unit of the autonomous driving device switches autonomous driving to manual driving, and then the control unit switches manual driving to autonomous driving even if the driver does not perform an autonomous driving switching operation. For this reason, it is possible to improve the convenience for the driver in the switching between autonomous driving and manual driving.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus has a controller that performs a lane keeping assist that controls a vehicle such that the lateral position of the vehicle is a target lateral position in a running lane, recognizes a lane change operation by the driver for a lane change of the vehicle from the running lane to an adjacent lane, and, when it is determined that steering torque in a lane change direction by the driver has changed from a predetermined threshold or more to less than the predetermined threshold after the lane change operation is recognized and before it is determined that a previously set lane change operation termination condition has been met, sets the lateral position of the vehicle at the time of the determination as the target lateral position.

Abstract: A misrecognition determination device is provided. The misrecognition determination device may be configured such that a plurality of traveling parameters that is used for driving control of a vehicle and is based on input data is calculated, a difference between each two of the plurality of traveling parameters is calculated, a weighting coefficient is calculated according to an orthogonality between each two pieces of input data in a traveling situation of the vehicle, and a determination is made whether misrecognition has occurred in a parameter group, which includes the plurality of traveling parameters, using the values each generated by multiplying the difference by the weighting coefficient.

Abstract: A vehicle travel control device that makes a vehicle travel on the basis of a target travel trajectory, wherein when it is determined that the direction of the vehicle is outward in the lane width direction on the basis of the lane center of the target lane, the vehicle travel control device generates the target travel trajectory on the assumption that the direction of the vehicle is a direction along the lane center of the target lane or is inward in the lane width direction on the basis of the lane center of the target lane.

Abstract: The apparatus includes: a lane change assistance unit configured to perform the lane change assistance after elapse of a margin time set in advance from the time when a direction indicator at the adjacent lane side is switched to an ON-state by a driver of the vehicle; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an amount of steering to the adjacent lane side by the driver during the margin time is equal to or greater than a steering amount threshold value, or to determine whether or not the vehicle moves to the adjacent lane side due to a driver's steering during the margin time by a lateral distance set in advance.

Abstract: By a display unit of a vehicle control device, a lane line which partitions a driving lane and a neighboring lane is displayed on a display screen in a perspective from a host vehicle to the front of the host vehicle and the lane line is displayed while the position of the lane line is changed according to a progress situation of a lane change. For this reason, a movement of the lane line in a display of the display screen and a movement of the lane line at the point of view of a driver of the host vehicle become more similar. Therefore, the driver of the host vehicle has a reduced uncomfortable feeling with the display of the display screen, and thus it becomes easier for the driver of the host vehicle to grasp the progress situation of the lane change.

Abstract: Provided is a lane following control device in which an uncomfortable feeling of a driver can be suppressed. In a case where shift processing is performed on a first adjacent vehicle X1, and when a distance between a second adjacent vehicle X2 travelling immediately front of the first adjacent vehicle X1 and the first adjacent vehicle X1 is equal to or less than a vehicle-to-vehicle distance threshold value and a lane width direction distance between the second adjacent vehicle X2 and a travelling lane R1 of the host vehicle V is equal to or less than a lane width direction threshold value, a target lateral position setting unit 14 maintains the shift processing on the first adjacent vehicle X1 until the shift processing is performed on the second adjacent vehicle X2.

Abstract: There is provided an autonomous driving device that improves the convenience for a driver in the switching between autonomous driving and manual driving. When the driver discovers an obstacle which cannot be detected by an autonomous driving device, and performs a driving operation which causes a manual driving switching threshold value to be exceeded for an operation time less than or equal to an operation threshold value so as to avoid the obstacle, a control unit of the autonomous driving device switches autonomous driving to manual driving, and then the control unit switches manual driving to autonomous driving even if the driver does not perform an autonomous driving switching operation. For this reason, it is possible to improve the convenience for the driver in the switching between autonomous driving and manual driving.

Abstract: An autonomous driving device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a value corresponding to a steering operation during an autonomous driving, and a control unit configured to perform the autonomous driving and to control switching of a driving state between the autonomous driving and a manual driving. In a case where a first value corresponding to the steering operation is equal to or greater than a first threshold value and a second value corresponding to the steering operation before the driving state is switched from the autonomous driving in progress to the manual driving is equal to or greater than a second threshold value, the control unit decelerates the vehicle and switches the driving state from the autonomous driving in progress to the manual driving.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus has a controller that performs a lane keeping assist that controls a vehicle such that the lateral position of the vehicle is a target lateral position in a running lane, recognizes a lane change operation by the driver for a lane change of the vehicle from the running lane to an adjacent lane, and, when it is determined that steering torque in a lane change direction by the driver has changed from a predetermined threshold or more to less than the predetermined threshold after the lane change operation is recognized and before it is determined that a previously set lane change operation termination condition has been met, sets the lateral position of the vehicle at the time of the determination as the target lateral position.