Denso Corporation

Masato Matsumoto

Kazuyoshi Isaji

Kenji Muto

Tsubasa Okuya

Kenji Mutou

In an automated driving control apparatus, an information acquirer is configured to acquire driving control information needed to control automated driving of a vehicle. A degradation information storage is configured to store information about accuracy degraded roads that are roads on which the accuracy of the driving control information is degraded to below a predetermined required level. An information updater is configured to acquire observed information concerning the information acquirer, and using the observed information, update stored contents of the degradation information storage. A route generator is configured to generate a route excluding the accuracy degraded roads stored in the degradation information storage. A driving controller is configured to conduct automated driving control of the vehicle according to the route generated by the route generator and the driving control information acquired by the information acquirer.

Automated driving control apparatus and automated driving control method

A control apparatus is used in a vehicle that performs automatic travel control. The apparatus includes a search section which searches for an external unit, when information used for the automatic travel control is no longer available due to abnormality, the external unit providing assist information for complementing missing information that is the information no longer available due to the abnormality, an acquisition section which acquires the assist information from the external unit obtained as a result of the search of the search section, and a processing section which performs a process for performing assist travel control, which is the automatic travel control as a result of complementing the missing information with the assist information.

Control apparatus

A vehicle identification apparatus mounted in a vehicle provided with a detection unit configured to detect a speed of a first other vehicle and a communication unit configured to receive information indicative of a speed of a second other vehicle from the second other vehicle. In the apparatus, a calculation unit calculates an indicator value indicative of a likelihood that the first and second other vehicles are the same, where the indicator value is defined as a function of the speed of the first other vehicle detected by the detection unit and the speed of the second other vehicle indicated by the information received by the communication unit. A determination unit determines whether or not the first and second other vehicles are the same on the basis of the indicator value calculated by the calculation unit.

Vehicle identification apparatus and method

A wireless communication method and apparatus for the same performs access control in the following manner, where an acquisition of a right to transmit is performed by CSMA access control method, and a collision of transmitted data packets among different communication apparatuses is prevented for facilitating a stable transmission of data packets from each of the apparatuses in a predetermined interval. The transmission of a data packet having a predetermined data length under a cyclical access control sets an access control start time at a time that is after a lapse of predetermined amount of time from the previous acquisition of the right to transmit. As a result, the competition of the right to transmit is resolved due to a different access control start time set for the next transmission.

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Kosai, Japan

Masato Matsumoto