Nissan Motor Company Limited

Renault S.a.s.

Hideaki Setoguchi

Mitsunori Kumada

A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle is configured to stop in response to a request from a prospective passenger and allow the prospective passenger to board. The vehicle control device includes: a stop candidate location extraction unit configured to extract a candidate location for a stop location where the vehicle is to be stopped in order to allow the prospective passenger to board; a first movement time calculation unit configured to calculate a first movement time that is a time required for the prospective passenger to move to the candidate location; a second movement time calculation unit configured to calculate a second movement time that is a time required for the vehicle to move to the candidate location; a standby time calculation unit configured to calculate a standby time of the vehicle at the candidate location based on the first movement time and the second movement time; and a stop location determination unit configured to determine, when the standby time is equal to or shorter than a predetermined allowable stop time at the candidate location, the candidate location as the stop location.

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

A fuel cell vehicle control method changes an output current of a fuel cell depending on a required generated power and adjusts an air supply flow rate depending on the change of the output current. The output current is reduced in response to a decrease of the required generated power when a gearshift operation of a transmission is under an inertia phase of an upshift operation. The air supply flow rate is controlled to an inertia phase supply flow rate higher than the air supply flow rate set in response to the decrease of the output current.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hideaki Setoguchi