Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Aisin Corporation

Keisuke Oyama

Hironobu Ishijima

Masaya Kato

Hidehiko Miyoshi

Tomohisa Yamashita

Motonari Obayashi

Hiroyuki Tachibana

Keisuke Hata

Tsuyoshi Hoshino

Hisashi Satonaka

Yuki Minase

Yusuke Kiyokawa

Shinya Sannodo

Tomoyuki Matsuba

Takashi Kuwayama

Eriko Yamazaki

Norio Imai

Yu Hiei

Motokatsu Tomozawa

Yu Tanaka

Kiyoshi Takahashi

Takatomo Asai

Miyuki Omori

Tsutomu Mochida

Daiki Maruki

Naoya Matsunaga

A parking assist apparatus is configured to perform a deviation control including at least one of a first notification control and a stop control when the parking assist apparatus determines that a vehicle that is performing an automatic parking deviates from a learned route. The parking assist apparatus is configured to learn, as the learned route, a position of the vehicle in each of multiple learned images that an outside-vehicle camera captures a space including the vehicle and the parking space multiple times while the vehicle is performing a manual parking or the automatic parking; and perform the deviation control when the parking assist apparatus determines that the vehicle deviates based on a position of the vehicle in a comparative image and a position of the vehicle in the learned image.

Parking assist apparatus

A vehicle control system comprises a portable terminal and a vehicle including a communication device and a drive device. When the drive device is in a non-actuation state and the communication device is in an inactivated state, the vehicle changes a state of the communication device from the inactivated state to an activated state when an activation condition is satisfied. The activation condition is satisfied when a user holding legitimate qualification exists within a communication possible range. When the drive device is in the non-actuation state, the vehicle changes the state of the communication device from the activated state to the inactivated state when an activation stop condition is satisfied. The activation stop condition is satisfied when an activation period in which the communication device is in the activated state reaches a predetermined period.

Vehicle control system and vehicle

A vehicle control device comprises a drive device configured to enable application of a driving force to a vehicle in an actuation state. The vehicle control device executes remote operation control of controlling the drive device in accordance with a wireless signal transmitted from a portable terminal present outside the vehicle, to thereby cause the vehicle to move to a predetermined target stop position. The vehicle control device maintains the drive device in the actuation state after an arrival time being a time at which the vehicle arrives at the target stop position, and invalidates the operation on the accelerator even when the accelerator is operated in a period from the arrival time to a cancellation condition satisfaction time at which a cancellation condition by which a fact that a user holding legitimate qualification has gotten in the vehicle can be confirmed is satisfied.

Vehicle control device

A vehicle control apparatus changes its activation state to an activated state and execute an automatic pulling-out control of automatically pulling a vehicle out of a parking space to a designated place and automatically stopping the vehicle at a designated place when receiving an automatic pulling-out request command of requesting executing the automatic pulling-out control from an outside by wireless. The vehicle control apparatus holds a driver's seat at a designated backed position without displacing the driver's seat forward when changing its activation state to the activated state in response to receiving the automatic pulling-out request command.

Vehicle control apparatus

A remote movement system of the invention comprises an operation terminal and a vehicle electronic control unit. The operation terminal includes a touch sensing portion which senses a finger of a user touching the touch sensing portion and a terminal electronic control unit configured to transmit a control execution command for requesting an execution of a remote movement control to cause a vehicle to move to a target position when movement of the user's finger touching the touch sensing portion satisfies a predetermined touch interaction condition. The vehicle electronic control unit is provided in the vehicle and configured to execute the remote movement control in response to receiving the control execution command from the terminal electronic control unit. The predetermined touch interaction condition does not include a condition that the user's finger moves, touching the touch sensing portion along a predetermined specific path.

Remote movement system and operation terminal

A parking assist apparatus is configured to execute parking assist control including steering angle automatic control, driving force automatic control and braking force automatic control, the parking assist apparatus being programmed to notify an occupant of an operation request requesting a driving operation of the vehicle to be performed for the parking assist control; and terminate the parking assist control and notify the occupant that the parking assist control is terminated when the driving operation corresponding to the operation request has not been performed by the occupant within a predetermined period.

A parking assistance device includes a detection unit that detects a parkable area in a surrounding area of a vehicle, a route calculation unit that calculates a parking guidance route for guiding the vehicle from the current position of the vehicle to a parking target position contained in the parkable area, and a control unit that guides the vehicle to the parking target position according to the parking guidance route, completes the guidance when the vehicle has fit into the parkable area with a certain attitude and has reached the parking target position, and varies a completion extension period until the guidance of the vehicle is completed according to the stop mode of the vehicle when the vehicle has entered the parkable area with the certain attitude and the vehicle has stopped before reaching the parking target position.

Parking assistance device

When starting automatic pulling-in control, an electronic control unit calculates a temperature increase amount &#x394;Ti of a motor caused by the execution of the automatic pulling-in control and a temperature increase amount &#x394;To of the motor caused by the execution of automatic pulling-out control. Based on the current temperature of the motor, the temperature increase amount &#x394;Ti, and the temperature increase amount &#x394;To, the electronic control unit obtains a predicted temperature of the motor of a case in which the automatic pulling-out control is executed subsequent to the automatic pulling-in control. When the predicted temperature is lower than an allowable upper limit, starting of the automatic pulling-in control is permitted. When the predicted temperature is higher than or equal to the allowable upper limit, starting of the automatic pulling-in control is prohibited.

Parking assist device

A park exit assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect a situation around a host vehicle parked or stopped in a parking/stopping area on a roadside. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate, on the basis of a detected result of the situation around the host vehicle, a park exit guidance path along which the host vehicle is moved out of the parking/stopping area to a traffic road and in which a steering angle becomes neutral at the time when a roadside front end of the host vehicle advances into the traffic road. The electronic control unit is configured to guide the host vehicle from the parking/stopping area toward the traffic road by at least executing steering control along the park exit guidance path.

Park exit assist system

When performing automatic control of a steering device that assists a host vehicle to be pulled into or out of a parking space, an electronic control unit performs the following procedure. When there is, as a path for pulling the vehicle into or out of the parking space, a path in which a predicted temperature of the steering device for when the automatic control is performed to move the vehicle along the path would be lower than an allowable upper limit value, the electronic control unit starts the automatic control to move the vehicle along the path. In contrast, when there is no path in which the predicted temperature is lower than the allowable upper limit value, the electronic control unit prohibits the automatic control.

Display screen with graphical user interface

A parking assistance device assists the operation of steerable wheels for the entry of a vehicle into a parking space by the automatic control of a steering device. Upon execution of the automatic control, an entry path for moving the vehicle to the parking position is calculated, and also, a target steered angle for moving the vehicle along the entry path is calculated, and the actual steered angle is detected. If the target steered angle is an angle closer to the neutral angle than the actual steered angle, then the operation of the steering wheel through the automatic control is stopped. If the target steered angle is not at an angle closer to the neutral angle than the actual steered angle, then the operation of the steering wheel through the automatic control is executed.

A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether a vehicle is allowed to run over the obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to, when it is determined that the vehicle is allowed to run over the obstacle, set a target position, to which the vehicle moves, to a position at which the vehicle overlaps with the obstacle.

Parking assist system

A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine a target position of a moving path of a vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine the target position at a position at which the vehicle is spaced at least a predetermined distance from the obstacle higher than a first threshold and the vehicle overlaps with the obstacle lower than the first threshold.

Parking assist system and parking assist method

A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an available parking area in an area around a vehicle, calculate a parking guidance path for guiding the vehicle from a current position of the vehicle to a parking target position included in the available parking area, execute guidance control for guiding the vehicle to the parking target position by executing at least steering control along the parking guidance path, and, when an end condition for ending guidance is satisfied in the middle of execution of the guidance control, end the guidance control and carry out at least one of steering to keep a steering angle at an end of the steering control for a predetermined period or steering to gradually reduce the steering angle from the steering angle at the end of the steering control toward a neutral position.

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Keisuke Oyama