Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Hitachi Astemo Ltd.

Nippon Steel Corporation

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Junya Takahashi

Makoto Yamakado

Kenta Maeda

Toshiyuki Innami

Atsushi Yokoyama

Shinjiro Saito

Yuki Akiyama

Go Sakayori

Hiroshi Nakano

Masamichi Imamura

Tomoaki Fujibayashi

Heiko Altmannshofer

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Tatsuya Yoshida

Toshiya Oosawa

Yasushi Kurisu

Masaaki Omodaka

Masafumi Matsumoto

Yoshihiro Yamada

Shinya Kasai

Seiichi Satoh

Futoshi Nishimura

Katsuya Kojima

Naoki Hiraga

Shinya Imura

Nobuyasu Kanekawa

Hiroyuki Yamada

Nobuyuki Ichimaru

Shinji Seto

Satoshi Otsuka

Ryusuke Hirao

Takehito Ogata

Yoichi Iihoshi

Wataru Tanaka

Takao Kojima

Mitsuhide Sasaki

Masaru Yamasaki

Mariko Mizuochi

Keiichiro Nagatsuka

Shingo Nasu

Mikio Ueyama

Keiichi Katsuta

Nahoko Maruyama

Kotaro Shiino

Yoshiji Hasegawa

Kentaroh Maki

The problem of ensuring safety and work efficiency for the actions of a control target is addressed in an environment in which different types of control systems coexist. A safety control server controls the actions of respective control targets in differing systems and includes an action adjustment unit that, for each control target of differing control systems, outputs to a control target an action adjustment instruction for adjusting the action of that control target when a contention occurs in which the action of that control target deviates from an assumed control result. An action plan adjustment unit, when the adjustment of the action satisfies a prescribed condition, adjusts an action plan indicating an action rule for achieving a function and avoiding a contention in a control target; and a safety rule adjustment unit adjusts a safety rule indicating an action rule for avoiding a contention in the control target.

Safety control device and safety rule adjustment method

A system includes a first device that controls a moving body and a second device that remotely controls the moving body. The first device obtains information around the moving body, movement information of the moving body, and remote control information. The first device calculates a control amount for controlling movement of the moving body based on one of the information and the movement information, switches autonomous movement and remote control of the moving body based on the remote-control information, and transmits one of the information, the movement information, and the control amount to the second device. The second device receives one of the information, the movement information, and the control amount, transmits the remote-control information to the first device, determines autonomous mobility of the moving body based on second information stored remotely, and generates the remote-control information including a determination result.

Moving body control system

An object of the present invention is to estimate a center-of-gravity position and inertia moment of a trailer and supply the center-of-gravity position and inertia moment for control of an articulated vehicle so as to enable further stabilization of a posture of the articulated vehicle during traveling. A vehicle control device of the present invention is a vehicle control device mounted on a tractor which pulls a trailer, and is provided with: a steering angle control unit that controls a steering angle of wheels of the tractor independently of steering by a driver; and a trailer characteristic estimation unit that estimates a characteristic of the trailer based on a behavior of the tractor during wheel steering by the steering angle control unit.

Vehicle control device and characteristic estimation method

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control system that can achieve highly comfortable autonomous driving according to the behavior of an occupant by changing a control mode of the autonomous driving according to the behavior of the occupant. To this end, a vehicle control system, which automatically drives a vehicle, comprises: an occupant information detection unit that detects, on the basis of in-vehicle information, position information and behavior information on the occupant; a tolerance calculation unit that calculates a vehicle motion tolerance on the basis of the position information and the behavior information detected by the occupant information detection unit; a trajectory generation unit that generates, on the basis of the vehicle motion tolerance calculated by the tolerance calculation unit, trajectory information including a traveling-scheduled route and time; and an autonomous driving control unit that generates, according to the trajectory information generated by the trajectory generation unit, a control command value to be sent to an actuator of the vehicle.

Vehicle control system

Provided is a mobile body control system capable of improving both the comfort of passengers in each mobile body and the efficiency of cargo transport when a plurality of mobile bodies travel in a formation. A mobile body control system () causes a plurality of mobile bodies () to travel in a formation along a preset travel route, and comprises a preceding/succeeding acceleration calculation unit (S) that calculates a preceding/succeeding acceleration of a preceding mobile body (_) and a succeeding mobile body (_+1) on the travel route. The preceding/succeeding acceleration calculation unit adjusts a gain E of an arithmetic expression used to calculate the preceding/succeeding acceleration on the basis of information about a transported object being transported by each mobile body ().

Mobile object platoon control system that calculates longitudinal acceleration of the mobile objects by setting a gain of an arithmetic expression

A steering control device for reducing a steering load on the driver by adjusting a gain of a rear wheel steering angle with respect to a front wheel steering angle operated by the driver according to a relative relationship between the vehicle and the parking frame to enable fine steering of the own vehicle near the parking frame when the four-wheel steering vehicle is parked. The steering control device is configured to control a rear wheel steering angle by a rear wheel steering system based on a front wheel steering angle operated by a driver, and includes an arithmetic device configured to reduce an absolute value of a gain of the rear wheel steering angle with respect to the front wheel steering angle as a positional relationship between an own vehicle and a parking frame comes closer when an own vehicle shifts to a parking driving mode.

Steering control device and steering control method

An object of the present invention is to provide a steering control device capable of reducing a steering amount while securing operability of a driver according to a traveling condition. A steering control deviceforming a steer-by-wire system, which has no physical connection between a steering shaft by a driver and an actual steered angle of a vehicle wheel, the steering control device including an actual steered angle calculation unitthat determines the actual steered angle based on a steering angle and a steering torque generated on the steering shaft. The actual steered angle calculation unitcontrols the actual steered angle based on the steering torque in a region where the steering angle is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and controls the actual steered angle based on a parameter different from the steering torque when the steering angle is larger than the predetermined value or a changed steering torque gain from when the steering angle is smaller than the predetermined value.

Steering control device

Provided is a steering control device and a steering control method that can suppress the deterioration of the turning responsiveness at the initial stage of steering that may occur in a four-wheel steering vehicle and improve the steering stability when the front and rear wheels of the four-wheel steering vehicle are controlled in the same phase. A steering control deviceof a vehicle that controls a rear wheel steering angle based on a front wheel steering angle includes a control unitthat controls an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a second steering section where an absolute value of the front wheel steering angle is constant and/or decreases by a time to be larger than an amount obtained by dividing an integrated value of a change in the rear wheel steering angle in a first steering section where the absolute value of the front wheel steering angle increases by a time.

In a traffic flow control system, communication is performed with a travel control device of a moving body passing through a transportation route and the traffic flow of the transportation route is controlled. The traffic control system includes an entry authority management unit and a communication unit. In a transportation route divided into virtual areas, the entry authority management unit manages entry authority for each area, managing tokens in a number that corresponds to the area, and guiding entry of the moving body to the area by attaching entry authority to a token and delivering the resulting token to the travel control device. The communication unit communicates the entry authority and tokens to the travel control device.

Traffic flow control system, traffic flow control program, traffic flow control method, and traveling controller

Provided are a vehicle motion control device, a method thereof, a program thereof, a system thereof in which it is adapted for traveling situation while an occurrence of an unstable behavior of a vehicle at the time of automatic lane change is suppressed, and a target trajectory generation device, a method thereof, a method thereof, a program thereof, and a system thereof. In a vehicle that can automatically control a lateral acceleration generated in the vehicle at the time of lane change, the lateral acceleration at the time of lane change is controlled such that an absolute value of a maximum lateral acceleration generated on a lateral acceleration generation phase (the secondary steering side) in a lateral direction opposite to the moving direction at the time of lane change is equal or more than an absolute value of a maximum lateral acceleration generated on a lateral acceleration generation phase (primary steering side) in the same direction as a lateral moving direction at the time of lane change.

Vehicle movement control device, method, program, and system, and target trajectory generating device, method, program, and system

Provided are: a device and a method for controlling vehicle movement, with which it is possible to suppress causing uncomfortableness to vehicle occupants and causing unstable behavior during turning by automatic travel control; and a device and a method for generating a target course. In a vehicle capable of automatically controlling lateral acceleration occurring in the vehicle, the present invention controls the acceleration occurring in the vehicle such that jerk, which is the change over time of acceleration, becomes the greatest in a region where the lateral acceleration that occurs upon entering a curve is equal to or less than half the acceleration during normal turning, and the jerk decreases as the acceleration increases.

Device and method for controlling vehicle movement, and device and method for generating target course

A moving body control device expands an autonomously movable region, appropriately determines reliability of the expanded region, and realizes stable autonomous movement at low cost. The device includes: an external map acquisition unit acquiring an external map; a sensor acquiring external environment information around the moving body; a movement information acquisition unit acquiring movement information indicating a position or an advancing angle of the moving body; an autonomous movement range management unit generating an autonomous movement map based on the external information or the movement information; and a control unit controlling movement of the moving body based on the autonomous movement map, the external environment information, or the movement information, the autonomous movement range management unit comparing the autonomous movement map with the external map, the control unit controlling the moving body based on a comparison result in the autonomous movement range management unit.

Moving body control device

An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle motion state estimation device capable of estimating a vertical momentum of a vehicle with high accuracy from a wheel speed sensor signal during traveling such as acceleration or deceleration, turning, or the like where wheel slips in longitudinal and lateral directions occur. The present invention estimates and removes a variation component caused by a wheel slip from variation components of a wheel speed sensor signal to extract a variation component caused by a displacement of a suspension, and estimates a vertical momentum of a vehicle from the extracted variation component caused by the displacement of the suspension.

Vehicle motion state estimation apparatus

The present invention provides a vehicle control device that can reduce the delay in the deceleration response of a vehicle to a deceleration command. The present invention modifies the distribution ratio of brake fluid pressure between front brakes and rear brakes on the basis of lateral motion information, vehicle information, and a collision risk or a traveling scene obtained from information pertaining to the external surroundings. The brake fluid pressure is distributed to only one of the front brakes or the rear brakes.

Vehicle control device

A travel control device includes an operation acquiring unit for acquiring an operation by a driver of a host moving body; an outside-world information acquiring unit for acquiring outside-world information of the periphery of the host moving body; a moving-body information acquiring unit for acquiring moving-body information relating to a travel state of the host moving body; a travelable-range management unit for managing the range travelable by the moving body; and a control unit for controlling travel by the moving body on the basis of the operation acquired by the operation acquiring unit, the outside-world information acquired by the outside-world information acquiring unit, the moving-body information acquired by the moving-body information acquiring unit, and the travelable range managed by the travelable-range management unit, the travelable-range management unit including a travelable-range enlargement unit for enlarging the travelable range, and a travelable-range evaluation unit for evaluating the travelable range.

Travel control device for moving body

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Tokyo, Japan

Junya Takahashi