Abstract: To provide a lane shape recognition system and a lane shape recognition method which can determine an effective range of the approximated curve corresponding to the lane shape. A lane shape recognition system and a lane shape recognition method detects relative positions of a series of marks or objects which are continuously arranged in front of an own vehicle, with respect to the own vehicle; calculates a curve which approximates the relative positions of the series of marks or objects with respect to the own vehicle; and when a plurality of curves are calculated, mutually compare shapes of plurality of curves and determines the curves corresponding to the lane shape and the effective range of the curves.

Abstract: An information distribution apparatus includes an obstacle identification apparatus that identifies an obstacle to a vehicle traveling in an area and then outputs obstacle information related to the position of the obstacle, a road database representing the positions of roads, and an impassable-road determination means that determines a road through which the vehicle cannot pass, based on the obstacle information outputted from the obstacle identification apparatus and the road database, and then outputs impassable-road information. A narrow-area automatic driving system is provided with the information distribution apparatus and the vehicle that travels from a departure point to a target point, along a route formed based on information outputted from the information distribution apparatus.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes: an ego-vehicle information acquisition unit which acquires ego-vehicle information; a map information acquisition unit which acquires map information about an intersection; an other-vehicle information acquisition unit which acquires other-vehicle information about another vehicle traveling on a road connected to the intersection; an intersection entry possibility determination unit which calculates a stop time of the other vehicle at a position of a stop line for the intersection, calculates a stop time of the ego vehicle at a position of a stop line for the intersection, and determines whether or not the ego vehicle is allowed to enter the intersection on the basis of the stop time of the other vehicle and the stop time of the ego vehicle; and a vehicle control unit which controls traveling of the ego vehicle at the intersection.

Abstract: A traffic control device of the present disclosure includes: a communication unit which receives target passing direction information and traffic information about moving objects in an intersection area transmitted from a traffic environment recognition device which acquires the traffic information; a pass schedule generation unit which predicts behaviors in the intersection area for each moving object to pass an intersection, on the basis of the traffic information and the target passing direction information, and generates a pass schedule in the intersection for each moving object; a collision judgment unit which judges a collision occurrence possibility in the intersection on the basis of the pass schedules; a passing order rank setting unit which sets passing order ranks if it is judged that collision will occur; and an adjusted pass schedule generation unit which generates adjusted pass schedules.

Abstract: A wheeled vehicle's antilock brake system (ABS) control device has three kinds of control modes of a braking force oriented mode, a sideways force oriented swinging-motion suppression mode and a sideways force oriented swinging-motion enhancement mode each of which is an ABS control mode being selected by means of an ABS control mode selection unit; and the vehicle ABS control device is so arranged that, in accordance with an ABS control mode selected by the ABS control mode selection unit, target slip rates on each of the vehicle's wheels being set by a target slip-rate setting unit are transferred toward respective braking force orientation or sideways force orientation, thereby the behavior of a wheeled vehicle is stabilized at a time when the wheeled vehicle on which the vehicle ABS control device is mounted makes a turn.

Abstract: An apparatus is obtained which provides, to a vehicle, information on a road-surface and that on an obstacle(s), and information on the degree of reliability, on the basis of information received from roadside units. The apparatus includes a communications circuitry to receive obstacle information from the roadside units where each unit includes a plurality of sensors to detect the obstacle(s) within a predetermined field of view. A reliability determinator determines the degree of reliability of information on an obstacle(s) received, and outputs a reliability value on the bases of the number of roadside units detecting the same obstacle, the number of sensors in one roadside unit detecting the same obstacle, and a difference value of detecting the same obstacle between different roadside units or that of detecting the same obstacle between different sensors; and a correction term is outputted on the basis of information on a road-surface condition.

Abstract: The travel path generation device includes; a first path generation part that outputs a bird's-eye view travel path constituted of a bird's-eye view curvature component, a bird's-eye view angle component, and a bird's-eye view lateral position component; a second path generation part that outputs an autonomous travel path constituted of an autonomous curvature component, an autonomous angle component, and an autonomous lateral position component; and a path generation part that receives the outputs of the first path generation part and the second path generation part, sets up, based on the bird's-eye view curvature component, the autonomous angle component, and the autonomous lateral position component, a curvature component of the travel path of the host vehicle, an angle component to the travel path of the host vehicle, and a lateral position component to the travel path of the host vehicle, and generates the travel path of the host vehicle.

Abstract: In order to generate an improved travel path with sufficient accuracy, a vehicle travel path generation device includes a first travel path generation part (60) which approximates a lane on which a host vehicle (1) travels to output first travel path information, a second travel path generation part (70) which approximates a road division line ahead of the host vehicle (1) to output second travel path information, a travel path weight setting part (90) which sets a weight between the first travel path information and the second travel path information, and an integrated path generation part (100) which generates an integrated path information using the first travel path information, the second travel path information, and the weight by the travel path weight setting part (90), wherein the travel path weight setting part (90) sets the weight, on the basis of at least one of outputs from a bird's-eye view detection travel path weight setting part (91), a vehicle state weight setting part (92), a path distance w

Abstract: Provided is a preceding vehicle determining device including: a signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a signal from an object detection device; a border setting unit configured to set a border of a lane on which the own vehicle is traveling; a determination area setting unit configured to set a preceding vehicle determination area being an area forward of the own vehicle based on at least one piece of information out of vehicle type information, device type information, detection state information, or preceding vehicle information being information on a vehicle set as a preceding vehicle in previous processing, and based on the border set by the border setting unit; and a preceding vehicle determining unit configured to determine whether the another vehicle is to be set as the preceding vehicle based on a position of the another vehicle with respect to the preceding vehicle determination area.

Abstract: To provide a preceding vehicle determination system and a preceding vehicle determination method which can improve the determination accuracy of the preceding vehicle, considering an estimation error of the traveling lane of the own vehicle. A preceding vehicle determination system and a preceding vehicle determination method estimates a high probability region which is a region where the own vehicle probably travels and estimates a middle probability region which is a region where a possibility that the own vehicle travels is lower than the high probability region, based on the traveling state of the own vehicle; and determines whether the front vehicle is a which is traveling forward in a traveling lane of the own vehicle, based on the position history of the front vehicle, the high probability region, and the middle probability region.

Abstract: A wheeled vehicle's antilock brake system (ABS) control device has three kinds of control modes of a braking force oriented mode, a sideways force oriented swinging-motion suppression mode and a sideways force oriented swinging-motion enhancement mode each of which is an ABS control mode being selected by means of an ABS control mode selection unit; and the vehicle ABS control device is so arranged that, in accordance with an ABS control mode selected by the ABS control mode selection unit, target slip rates on each of the vehicle's wheels being set by a target slip-rate setting unit are transferred toward respective braking force orientation or sideways force orientation, thereby the behavior of a wheeled vehicle is stabilized at a time when the wheeled vehicle on which the vehicle ABS control device is mounted makes a turn.

Abstract: To provide a lane shape recognition system and a lane shape recognition method which can determine an effective range of the approximated curve corresponding to the lane shape. A lane shape recognition system and a lane shape recognition method detects relative positions of a series of marks or objects which are continuously arranged in front of an own vehicle, with respect to the own vehicle; calculates a curve which approximates the relative positions of the series of marks or objects with respect to the own vehicle; and when a plurality of curves are calculated, mutually compare shapes of plurality of curves and determines the curves corresponding to the lane shape and the effective range of the curves.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of estimating a blind area region which can be used in an automatic driving to optimize the automatic driving, for example. A blind area estimation device includes an acquisition part and an estimation part. The acquisition part acquires an object region based on object information. The object information is information of an object in a predetermined region detected by a detection part. The object region is a region of the object. The estimation part estimates a blind area region based on the object region. The blind area region is a region which is a blind area for the detection part caused by the object.

Abstract: A vehicle position detector includes: a satellite positioning receiver; an autonomous navigation processor outputting an own-vehicle position as an autonomous navigation position; a determining unit determining occurrence of a position jump on the basis of a positional difference between the autonomous navigation position and a satellite positioning position detected by the satellite positioning receiver using satellite positioning; and a selector selecting one of the autonomous navigation position and the satellite positioning position on the basis of positioning precision of satellite positioning output by the satellite positioning receiver, and a result of the determination, wherein the vehicle position detector outputs one of the autonomous navigation position and the satellite positioning position as the own-vehicle position on the basis of a result of the selection.

Abstract: A vehicle control device disclosed in the present disclosure includes: a first control unit configured to control a speed of the vehicle in accordance with the route distance and the set speed until the detection unit determines that the vehicle has passed through the ETC toll gate, while the vehicle is performing the constant-speed traveling by the cruise control unit; a vehicle frontward detecting unit configured to detect road information about a road frontward of the vehicle; and a second control unit configured to change control content in the cruise control unit on the basis of a detection result from the vehicle frontward detecting unit, when the detection unit determines that the vehicle has passed through the ETC toll gate, while the vehicle is performing the constant-speed traveling by the cruise control unit.

Abstract: In the vehicle traveling control device, a host vehicle location specification unit specifies a host vehicle location on a map. A first peripheral information detector detects a location of a planimetric feature or characteristics of a road in a periphery of the host vehicle on the basis of map data and the host vehicle location on the map specified by the host vehicle location specification unit. A second peripheral information detector detects a location of a planimetric feature or characteristics of a road in the periphery of the host vehicle on the basis of information acquired by a camera, a sensor, or a road-vehicle communication device mounted on the host vehicle. When the detection result from the first peripheral information detector and the detection result from the second peripheral information detector do not coincide, an automatic driving restriction unit restricts performance of automatic driving of the host vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle control device disclosed in the present disclosure includes: a first control unit configured to control a speed of the vehicle in accordance with the route distance and the set speed until the detection unit determines that the vehicle has passed through the ETC toll gate, while the vehicle is performing the constant-speed traveling by the cruise control unit; a vehicle frontward detecting unit configured to detect road information about a road frontward of the vehicle; and a second control unit configured to change control content in the cruise control unit on the basis of a detection result from the vehicle frontward detecting unit, when the detection unit determines that the vehicle has passed through the ETC toll gate, while the vehicle is performing the constant-speed traveling by the cruise control unit.

Abstract: A vehicle position detector includes: a satellite positioning receiver; an autonomous navigation processor outputting an own-vehicle position as an autonomous navigation position; a determining unit determining occurrence of a position jump on the basis of a positional difference between the autonomous navigation position and a satellite positioning position detected by the satellite positioning receiver using satellite positioning; and a selector selecting one of the autonomous navigation position and the satellite positioning position on the basis of positioning precision of satellite positioning output by the satellite positioning receiver, and a result of the determination, wherein the vehicle position detector outputs one of the autonomous navigation position and the satellite positioning position as the own-vehicle position on the basis of a result of the selection.

Abstract: A vehicle position detector includes: a satellite positioning receiver; an autonomous navigation processor outputting an own-vehicle position as an autonomous navigation position; a determining unit determining occurrence of a position jump on the basis of a positional difference between the autonomous navigation position and a satellite positioning position detected by the satellite positioning receiver using satellite positioning; and a selector selecting one of the autonomous navigation position and the satellite positioning position on the basis of positioning precision of satellite positioning output by the satellite positioning receiver, and a result of the determination, wherein the vehicle position detector outputs one of the autonomous navigation position and the satellite positioning position as the own-vehicle position on the basis of a result of the selection.

Abstract: A vehicle steering control apparatus having high robustness while ensuring the accuracy of automatic parking. The steering control apparatus includes a target parking position computing module to calculate a target parking position, a target line computing module to calculate a target parking line, an own vehicle position target attitude angle computing module to calculate an own vehicle position target attitude angle, an own vehicle attitude angle, and the target parking line, an own vehicle position target curvature computing module to calculate an own vehicle position target curvature, and a steering controller for calculating a target steering angle based on the own vehicle position target curvature and performing control such that the actual steering angle matches the target steering angle.