Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Shota Kawanaka

Yasuhiro Ikeda

Hayahito Ukai

Takehiro Horigome

Takeshi Itagaki

Satoshi Sekiguchi

Hironori Deno

An automatic driving executability determination unit restricts automatic driving when a charge amount determination unit (third determination unit) determines that a battery is in a low capacity state, and decides whether to restrict the automatic driving according to a determination result of a discharge performance determination unit (first determination unit) when a temperature determination unit (second determination unit) determines that the battery is in the low capacity state but a charge amount determination unit determines that the battery is not in the low capacity state.

Vehicle control device

Provided is a vehicle control device that prevents a specific function of a traveling vehicle from being not able to operate due to a failure of a battery. The vehicle control device includes: a control section configured to execute predetermined function control for a vehicle system; a discharge performance determination section configured to determine whether or not a battery is able to discharge a predetermined amount of current in accordance with a predetermined function before the predetermined function control is started; and an execution availability determination section configured to permit the control section to execute the predetermined function when it is determined that the predetermined amount of current is able to be discharged and inhibit the control section from executing the predetermined function when it is determined that the predetermined amount of current is not able to be discharged.

When replacement of a battery is detected, an automatic driving executability determination unit determines whether the battery is in a low capacity state until a predetermined time elapses, using battery information (battery charge amount, discharge performance) excluding an estimation value of a temperature of the battery, and restricts automatic driving according to such a determination result.

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Wako, Japan

Shota Kawanaka