Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hideharu Otake

Yuki Nakada

Kenichi Ohshima

A steering motor generates a driving force based on a steering instruction from a travel control unit and applies a steering axial force to a rack shaft to thereby cause vehicle wheels to be steered. An action planning unit, through the travel control unit, initiates traveling at a starting position of parking on a movement path by suppressing the steering axial force to be less than a maximum driving force of the steering motor.

Vehicle control device

An automated parking movement path is generated such that a vehicle speed and a steering angle are set so as to enable a full steering axial force to be applied within a range of being less than a maximum driving force which depends on the temperature of a steering motor. Consequently, a load on the steering motor is suppressed, and thus a rise in the temperature of a steering motor is suppressed within the movement path from a movement starting position to a movement ending position.

A movement path is regenerated within a movement capable region in accordance with an instruction to correct a movement path by a pointing unit, and the regenerated movement path is displayed on a display unit in a superimposed manner on a movement capable region for a user's own vehicle. As a result, without changing a parking space (position) in which a vehicle occupant desires to park, it is possible for parking to be performed along the desired movement path to the desired parking space.

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