Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinya Nishida

Kotaro Saiki

Motoki Nishimura

A collision avoidance apparatus includes an obstacle detection section for detecting an obstacle, a collision avoidance section which performs collision avoidance assist control, and an avoidance processing start section for causing the collision avoidance section to start the collision avoidance assist control. In the case where the obstacle is a continuous obstacle, the timing of starting the collision avoidance assist control is delayed as compared with the case where the obstacle is not a continuous obstacle. Further, the greater the degree of gentleness of the inclination of the continuous obstacle, the greater the amount by which the timing of starting the collision avoidance assist control is delayed.

Collision avoidance apparatus

A vehicle collision avoidance assist system, including: a forward obstacle detecting device; and a controller including an automatic braking control executing portion to execute an automatic braking control for permitting a brake apparatus to automatically operate and an avoidance control executing portion to execute, in addition to the automatic braking control, an avoidance control for pen fitting a steering apparatus to automatically operate, wherein the avoidance control executing portion is configured such that, when the forward obstacle detecting device detects, as a forward obstacle, a continuous obstacle that continuously extends diagonally forward so as to be inclined with respect to a forwardly extending centerline that forwardly extends from a center of the own vehicle, the avoidance control executing portion executes the avoidance control to enable the own vehicle to avoid the continuous obstacle such that the own vehicle travels along the continuous obstacle.

Vehicle collision avoidance assist system

A vehicle collision avoidance assist system, including: a forward obstacle detecting device; and a controller including an automatic braking control executing portion to execute an automatic braking control and an avoidance control executing portion to execute an avoidance control, in addition to the automatic braking control, wherein, when a moving obstacle that is moving in a right-left direction is detected, the avoidance control executing portion executes the avoidance control to avoid the moving obstacle such that an own vehicle travels in a direction opposite to a movement direction of the moving obstacle when the moving obstacle is moving away from a forwardly extending centerline that forwardly extends from a center of the own vehicle and such that the own vehicle travels in the same direction as the movement direction of the moving obstacle when the moving obstacle is moving toward the forwardly extending centerline.

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Gotenba, Japan

Shinya Nishida