Hitachi Astemo Ltd.

Daisuke Noma

Kentaro Ueno

Hiroki Sugawara

Tatsuya Iba

A vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, and a vehicle control system according to the present invention estimate, in response to a deceleration command to a vehicle, the first deceleration generated by a frictional braking force based on characteristics of deceleration with respect to a force acting on a friction pad of a frictional braking device, determine the second deceleration by subtracting the first deceleration from the deceleration command, output the first command for generating the frictional braking force based on the deceleration command, and output the second command for generating the regenerative braking force based on the second deceleration. This allows compensating for uncertainty in achieving deceleration by frictional braking, and improving the accuracy of the actual deceleration with respect to the deceleration command.

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control system

The vehicle control device of the present invention acquires characteristics of a road condition in front of a traveling vehicle based on external information; acquires vehicle behavior control variables for controlling the behavior of the vehicle based on estimated state variables of the vehicle that are obtained based on the characteristics, and control variables concerning speed of the vehicle based on the external information; acquires trajectory tracking control variables for causing the vehicle to track the target trajectory based on the target trajectory on which the vehicle travels that are obtained based on the characteristics and the estimated state variables; and outputs the control commands for controlling the suspension device, steering device, and braking and driving device based on the vehicle behavior control variables and the trajectory tracking control variables. This improves travel stability of the vehicle on a road surface on which an irregularity such as ruts exists.

A vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, and a vehicle control system according to the present invention perform feedback control to reduce difference in lateral direction or difference in turning direction between an own vehicle and a travel target, so as to acquire a first steering angle control command for increasing a steering angle control amount as the velocity of the own vehicle decreases, acquire a second steering angle control command for decreasing the steering angle control amount with respect to the velocity, compared with a magnitude of the steering angle control amount with respect to the velocity obtained by the first steering angle control command, output the first steering angle control command when the velocity is greater than a predetermined threshold, and output the second steering angle control command when the velocity is equal to, or less than, the predetermined threshold.

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Hitachinaka, Japan

Daisuke Noma