Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Hironori Aoyagi

Takayuki Kishi

Yoshinori Kinoshita

Takeshi Kibayashi

Yoshinobu Mukai

Kyoji Hamamoto

Norifumi Tamura

Ryota Mose

An information providing device includes an external environment recognition unit that recognizes an external environmental situation of a movable body, an information providing control unit that provides a notification of recommended stopping information based on a current indication of traffic signals recognized by the external environment recognition unit, and a determination unit which determines, in the case that a first intersection and a second intersection are positioned in a travel direction of the movable body, whether or not a degree of proximity of the first intersection and the second intersection satisfies a predetermined condition. In the case it is determined by the determination unit that the predetermined condition is satisfied, the information providing control unit prevents the recommended stopping information based on a current indication of the traffic signal belonging to the second intersection from being provided.

Information providing device, movable body, and method of providing information

An information providing device is equipped with an information providing control unit that, in the case that a provision starting condition for starting to provide recommended stopping information is satisfied by a current indication of a traffic signal and a travel state, initiates the provision of the recommended stopping information, whereas in the case that a provision termination condition for stopping to provide the recommended stopping information is satisfied, terminates the provision of the recommended stopping information. After the provision of the recommended stopping information is initiated by having satisfied the provision starting condition, in the case that the provision of the recommended stopping information is terminated by having satisfied the provision termination condition, and further thereafter, the provision starting condition is satisfied again, the information providing control unit restricts re-providing of the recommended stopping information.

An electric power steering device includes a steering angle reference yaw rate calculation section that calculates a steering angle reference yaw rate by using a speed of a vehicle and a steering angle of a steering wheel, a torque estimation device that estimates a self-aligning torque (SAT) generated in a turning wheel of the vehicle on the basis of a measured yaw rate or the steering angle reference yaw rate, the absolute value of which is smaller, and the speed of the vehicle, and estimates a required assist torque on the basis of the estimated SAT, and an abnormality determination section that determines whether or not a steering torque sensor is abnormal. If the steering torque sensor is abnormal, an EPS control device controls drive of an assist motor using the required assist torque estimated by the torque estimation device, in place of a steering torque.

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