Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Noriyuki Tsuruoka

Kohei Morotomi

Masayuki Katoh

Tatsuya Sugano

Ryuji Okamura

Hiroya Chiba

Daisuke Kakuma

An automated parking management device includes a storage device and a processor that performs an organization processing for organizing an automated parking location of a vehicle in a parking lot. In the organization processing, the processor calculates a degree of anti-theft necessity for a loaded vehicle and a load scheduled vehicle for each vehicle. The processor calculates a degree of theft resistance for each parking spot based on a map information of the parking lot, a location information of the loaded vehicle, and a location information of the load scheduled vehicle. The processor determines an automated parking location of the loaded vehicle and the load scheduled vehicle based on the degree of anti-theft necessity and degree of theft resistance such that a vehicle with a higher degree of anti-theft necessity is parked in the parking spot with a higher degree of theft resistance.

Automated parking management device and automated parking management method

A parking assist apparatus is provided with: a holding device configured to hold the target parking position associated with the parking process operation; an automatic parking device configured to perform an automatic parking control of automatically controlling the vehicle such that the vehicle is parked in the target parking position, as a part of the parking process operation; and a transition device configured to change the automatic parking control into a standby state while allowing the holding device to hold the target parking position, on condition that a door of the vehicle is opened before the vehicle arrives at the target parking position. The transition device is configured to allow the automatic parking device to restart the automatic parking control, on condition that there is an execution request for the automatic parking control, when the automatic parking control is in the standby state.

Parking assist apparatus

Disclosed is a driving assist apparatus which executes a process for collision avoidance when the possibility of collision of a vehicle with an obstacle is high. When the steering angle of the steering wheel is greater than an angle threshold, the apparatus determines that a driver is trying to avoid the collision by operating the steering wheel and does not execute the collision avoidance process. When the vehicle is making a right turn or a left turn, there arises a possibility that the collision avoidance process is not executed even in a situation where the collision avoidance process must be executed. In view of this, when the vehicle is making a right turn or a left turn, the angle threshold mentioned above is set to a larger value as compared with the case where the vehicle is not making a right turn or a left turn.

Driving assist apparatus

An automated valet parking system includes a parking lot management server configured to: acquire information on a plurality of traveling coordinates arranged along a runway of a parking lot to an entrance of a target parking space based on a vehicle position of an autonomous driving vehicle, a position of the target parking space, and parking lot map information; generate a trajectory of the vehicle based on the information on the traveling coordinates and a result of detection from an in-vehicle external sensor; and determine whether the entrance of the target parking space is recognizable based on an object recognition range; and generate the trajectory that brings the vehicle closer to the target parking space so that the object for recognizing the entrance of the target parking space is included in the object recognition range when it is determined that the entrance of the target parking space is not recognizable.

Automated valet parking system

A setting device is configured to: determine whether a target route indicating a segmented route is curved based on map information; calculate an end-to-end distance from coordinates of a terminating end of the target route to coordinates of a terminating end of an arc in a direction of a coordinate axis in which a preceding segmented route extends; cause the entire arc to slide by an amount corresponding to the end-to-end distance in a direction parallel to the coordinate axis and in a direction from a terminating end of the preceding segmented route toward a starting end of the preceding segmented route; set the entire slid arc as a new segmented route; and change the coordinates of the terminating end of the preceding segmented route to the coordinates of a starting end of the slid arc.

Setting device and setting method of traveling route

Disclosed is a collision avoidance assisting apparatus which can execute an automatic braking process and an automatic steering process for avoiding collision with an obstacle. When the magnitude of a steering angle exceeds a predetermined threshold, the collision avoidance assisting apparatus determines that a driver has an intention of avoiding the collision by a steering operation and stops the automatic braking process and the automatic steering process. However, in such a case, the automatic braking process and the automatic steering process may be stopped when the steering angle exceeds the threshold as a result of execution of the automatic steering process. In view of this, when both the automatic braking process and the automatic steering process are being executed, the collision avoidance assisting apparatus continues the automatic braking process and the automatic steering process even when the magnitude of the steering angle is greater than the predetermined threshold.

Collision avoidance assisting apparatus

A collision avoidance device includes an electronic control unit configured to: determine whether or not an oncoming vehicle enters inside a turning circle of a host vehicle turning; and execute a collision avoidance control in a case where the electronic control unit determines that there is a collision possibility between the host vehicle and the oncoming vehicle, wherein the electronic control unit is configured not to execute the collision avoidance control when the electronic control unit determines that the oncoming vehicle enters inside the turning circle of the host vehicle.

Collision avoidance device

A collision avoidance device includes an electronic control unit configured to: determine whether or not a driver of a host vehicle performs turn-back steering based on a detection value of a steering angle or steering torque detected by a steering sensor of the host vehicle; and execute the collision avoidance control for avoiding a collision between the host vehicle and an obstacle in a case where the electronic control unit determines that there is a collision possibility between the host vehicle and the obstacle based on a path of the host vehicle and a position of the obstacle, wherein the electronic control unit is configured not to execute the collision avoidance control while the electronic control unit determines that the driver of the host vehicle performs turn-back steering.

A collision avoidance device includes an electronic control unit configured to: calculate a deflection angle that is a change angle of a direction of a host vehicle turning in a direction of a blinker in a turn-on state based on a direction of the host vehicle when the host vehicle switches the blinker into the turn-on state; and execute a collision avoidance control for avoiding a collision between the host vehicle and an obstacle in a case where the electronic control unit determines that there is a collision possibility between the host vehicle and the obstacle based on a path of the host vehicle on an intersection and a position of the obstacle, wherein the electronic control unit is configured not to execute the collision avoidance control when the deflection angle is equal to or greater than a deflection angle threshold.

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Susono, Japan

Noriyuki Tsuruoka