Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a parking assist device for a vehicle such that the vehicle can be parked without decreasing or excessively increasing the speed or causing the vehicle to stop during assisted parking, the speed of the host vehicle is kept constant even immediately after an obstacle or a bump is cleared, and the vehicle is prevented from colliding with any other parked vehicle. The device calculates a speed command value and/or an engine torque command value in consideration of the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and controls the speed of the vehicle on the basis of the calculated speed command value and/or the engine torque command value, said acceleration/deceleration being predicted in advance on the basis of the height and distance of an obstacle and/or a bump that is present in a parking path, the gradient of the road surface, and the steering angle.

Abstract: An onboard control device that is installed at a vehicle acquires land mark information including position information of a landmark which can be recognized on a road in which the vehicle is estimated to travel by a camera, a landmark image for recognition, a recognition evaluation value that represents ease of the recognition successfully performed and so on, and selects a landmark to be a subject for recognition based on the recognition evaluation value included in the landmark information. The onboard control device further evaluates the recognition results of the landmark to be a subject for recognition, and transmits the recognition results to the server with the landmark image recognized by the camera. The server aggregates the recognition evaluation results of the landmark and the recognized images and reflects them in the recognition evaluation values for the landmark information and landmark images to be transmitted to the onboard control device.

Abstract: A vehicle travel control apparatus is provided that is capable of improving fuel economy by exerting control so as to attain a specified speed without starting the engine during acceleration, and by increasing the regenerative energy recovery amount during deceleration, during the travel control.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to switch driving modes smoothly and ensure that a passenger understands driving operations controlled in the relevant driving mode and necessary driving operations.

Abstract: Control can be continued so that control of automatic driving is not canceled even in a non-average specific road environment. An automatic driving control device, which controls an actuator of a vehicle in order to automatically travel on a road without driver operation through the use of an external surrounding recognition sensor for recognizing external surroundings and information from the external surrounding recognition sensor, has a learning recording device for recording external surrounding recognition information and vehicle status information when the driver is driving, an output comparison device for comparing the information recorded in the learning recording device with the processing results when the information recorded in the recording device is processed by the automatic driving control device, and a control parameter setting device for setting control parameters so that the results compared by the output comparison device approach the driving of the driver.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem that a host vehicle changes lanes and comes into contact with a following vehicle or causes the following vehicle to rapidly decelerate when the other vehicle rapidly approaches the host vehicle from outside a recognizable zone in the presence of another vehicle traveling in the lane to which the host vehicle is about to travel.

Abstract: This invention provides a secure self-driving system or drive-assisting system. A drive control system of the present invention has an image recognition unit for detecting the peripheral environment of a vehicle and a drive control apparatus that controls driving of the vehicle, characterized by having a peripheral environment storage unit for storing the peripheral environment of the vehicle and by changing a mode of drive control performed by the drive control apparatus on the basis of a detection performance status of the image recognition unit obtained on the basis of information about the peripheral environment stored in the peripheral environment storage unit and information detected by the image recognition unit.

Abstract: In order to address the problem of providing a high-safety vehicle control system and action plan system, the present invention provides a vehicle control system comprising a trajectory generation determination unit (603) having an emergency trajectory generating unit (6032) for calculating an emergency trajectory while driving is being switched from a system to a driver at the time of a fault, and a motion control unit (604) having a trajectory retaining unit (6042) for retaining the emergency trajectory and a trajectory switching unit (6041) for switching whether to travel in the emergency trajectory retained by the trajectory retaining unit on the basis of a fault state detected by a malfunction detection unit.

Abstract: Vehicle systems that implement action planning for a vehicle have had difficulty in maintaining safety in the event of a failure in a recognition device since these systems generate trajectories and control the vehicle on the basis of outside-world information recognized by recognition devices. The present invention was conceived in light of the aforementioned situation and addresses the problem of maintaining safety even in the event of a failure in a recognition device of a vehicle system. This problem can be solved by an action planning device having a failure detection unit for detecting a failure in an outside-world recognition unit and a trajectory generation/determination unit for executing an action on the occurrence of a failure on the basis of outside-world information outputted by the outside-world recognition unit, wherein the trajectory generation/determination unit takes an action for coping with the failure on the basis of failure information from the failure detection unit.

Abstract: A traveling control system capable of reducing uneasiness felt by an occupant in automatic traveling control of a vehicle includes an on-vehicle control device which performs traveling control on the vehicle, and a display device that is connected to the on-vehicle control device and presents information to an occupant through screen display or audio output. The on-vehicle control device acquires externality recognition information recognized by an externality sensor and/or out-of-vehicle communication, decides driving behavior content to be taken by the vehicle based on the externality recognition information, specifies a driving behavior cause which is a reason why the driving behavior content is decided, and outputs the driving behavior content and the specified driving behavior cause. The display device acquires the driving behavior content and cause output by the control device and sends a notification of the driving behavior content and cause through screen display or audio output.

Abstract: To provide a drive control device of a moving body capable of increasing a regeneration amount without hindering a driver's brake operation and causing too much deceleration. A drive control device of a moving body that updates a regenerative pattern of a driving motor of the moving body including a brake that generates a braking force by being linked to an operation amount of a brake pedal, the drive control device including an external world information acquisition unit that acquires external world information and a brake detector that detects ON/OFF of the brake, wherein when the brake detector detects ON, the regenerative pattern is changed based on the external world information acquired by the external world information acquisition unit such that a braking distance only decreases.

Abstract: An onboard control device that is installed at a vehicle acquires land mark information including position information of a landmark which can be recognized on a road in which the vehicle is estimated to travel by a camera, a landmark image for recognition, a recognition evaluation value that represents ease of the recognition successfully performed and so on, and selects a landmark to be a subject for recognition based on the recognition evaluation value included in the landmark information. The onboard control device further evaluates the recognition results of the landmark to be a subject for recognition, and transmits the recognition results to the server with the landmark image recognized by the camera. The server aggregates the recognition evaluation results of the landmark and the recognized images and reflects them in the recognition evaluation values for the landmark information and landmark images to be transmitted to the onboard control device.

Abstract: A travel control device includes a target vehicle-speed calculation unit that includes a target vehicle-speed pattern adjustment processing unit generating a target vehicle-speed pattern based on a route passing speed pattern which is a passing vehicle-speed pattern within a certain distance generated in consideration of traffic congestion information. The travel control device also includes an evaluation value calculation unit calculating an evaluation value based on a horizon length and the target vehicle-speed pattern. The horizon length representing the time taken until a vehicle arrives at an ultimate point generated in consideration of information on prospective traffic congestion which can occur in the future.

Abstract: When a regenerative braking force is controlled based on a target stop position or a target following distance, a driver may have an uncomfortable feeling if a vehicle is stopped or a following distance is secured by the regenerative braking force only and thus, the driver is prompted to perform a brake pedal operation and the driver adjusts deceleration by himself to reduce the driver's uncomfortable feeling. Regenerative deceleration by a motor when the driver operates neither accelerator pedal nor brake pedal is controlled to be smaller than deceleration needed to stop in the target stop position or deceleration needed to reduce a relative speed to the preceding vehicle to zero at the target following distance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a travel control device in which optimization of the traffic flow and minimization of energy consumption of vehicles are compatible with each other. The travel control device includes a target vehicle-speed calculation unit that includes a target vehicle-speed pattern adjustment processing unit generating a target vehicle-speed pattern based on a route passing speed pattern which is a passing vehicle-speed pattern within a certain distance generated in consideration of traffic congestion information, and an evaluation value calculation unit calculating an evaluation value based on a horizon length and the target vehicle-speed pattern, the horizon length representing the time taken until a vehicle arrives at an ultimate point generated in consideration of information on prospective traffic congestion which can occur in the future; and a target control volume computation unit that calculates control volume of controlling the vehicle based on the evaluation value.

Abstract: A vehicle travel control apparatus is provided that is capable of improving fuel economy by exerting control so as to attain a specified speed without starting the engine during acceleration, and by increasing the regenerative energy recovery amount during deceleration, during the travel control.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to attain an object detection device that enables tracking travel control that does not cause a driver to experience a feeling of discomfort. An object detection device 104 of the present invention is an object detection device 104 that detects a subject 102 in front of the host vehicle on the basis of an image in which outside of the vehicle is captured from imaging devices 105 and 106 mounted in the host vehicle 103, and detects a relative distance or a relative speed with respect to the subject 102, having a risk factor determination unit 111 that, on the basis of the image, determines whether or not there is a risk factor that is a travel risk for the host vehicle 103.

Abstract: The proposed automatic deceleration device includes a recognizing section for recognizing the driving environment; a first target deceleration calculating section for obtaining the target deceleration depending on the recognized driving environment; a second target deceleration calculating section for obtaining the target deceleration irrespective of the driving environment; and a changeover section for switching between the deceleration obtained depending on the driving environment and the deceleration obtained irrespective of the driving environment on the basis of the vehicle information including the recognized driving environment.

Abstract: A collision between a vehicle and an obstacle is estimated, and based on the estimation result, vehicle deceleration control is performed by a brake actuator to reduce the collision and vehicle wheel load is controlled by a suspension actuator.

Abstract: In brake liquid pressure control, a time wasted after the control is started until brake application is actually started is reduced and pulsation noise of brake liquid pressure is reduced. When automatic following control of a vehicle is being operated, a motor for pressure increase is set to idle if a predetermined condition at which the vehicle starts deceleration is reached before an automatic brake command is issued from an automatic following control device. Further, when the throttle of an engine is at predetermined condition at which rapid acceleration does not occur, brake liquid pressure is increased to a level at which the vehicle does not decelerate.