Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Jtekt Corporation

Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha

Advics Co., Ltd.

Denso Corpora Tion

Takahiro Kojo

Yoji Kunihiro

Junji Kawamuro

Theerawat Limpibunterng

Hisaya Akatsuka

Masatoshi Nakatsu

Yoshiaki Tsuchiya

Yoshio Kudo

Yoshiaki Suzuki

Masao Ueyama

Toru Takashima

Yoshitaka Fujita

Masahiro Miyata

Takahiro Toko

Yukihide Kimura

Kazumasa Kodama

Yutaka Aoki

Morihiro Matsuda

Masato Suzumura

Masahiko Shindo

Kenji Asano

Takeshi Goto

Go Inoue

Masateru Amano

Hirotaka Tokoro

Kenichiro Hidaka

Shingo Nitta

Ryo Irie

Hirozumi Eki

Mitsutaka Tanimoto

Yushi Shibaike

Yushi Nagata

Michiyuki Sugiyama

Naoki Nishimura

Takashi Yamamoto

Shunsuke Tanimori

Akihiro Watanabe

Nobuyori Nakajima

Yutaka Mori

Yasuo Ito

Hirofumi Nitta

Hisanori Mitsumoto

Robert Fuchs

Takahiro Yokota

Nobuhiko Makino

Tsutomu Tamura

Tetsuya Morino

Shoji Asai

Toshio Tsutsui

Jun Sakugawa

Hisashi Kameya

Akira Nambu

Maxime Moreillon

Takahiko Kuwabara

Yuji Watari

Shun Maruyama

Taro Hirose

Tetsuhiro Narita

Mikihiro Hiramine

Hiromasa Tamaki

Shun Mizoo

Norihisa Nishikawa

Takahiro Kodaira

Noritsugu Iwazaki

Motoshi Kawai

Masaki Shiota

Satoshi Takahashi

Kenichirou Hidaka

Hisashi Kajita

Shogo Takahira

Hiroki Shizuhata

Susumu Fujii

Junko Hidaka, Legal Representative

Mitsutomo Iwase

An autonomous vehicle control device configured to determine a control input for causing an automatic driving to travel along a target trajectory determined based on an estimated current location of the vehicle by repeatedly performing a predetermined calculation, wherein the controller estimates the current location by correcting the location of the vehicle on the map data based on the relative location of the vehicle on the traveling road, and adjusts a predetermined parameter in the predetermined calculation in accordance with the amount of correction so that the number of repeated calculations is reduced when it is determined that the estimation of the current location is not accurate based on the amount of correction of the location at that time.

Control device for autonomous vehicle

An autonomous driving control device includes a steering determination unit that determines whether a driver has operated a steering unit while driving with an actuator controlled in a first control mode, an operation speed calculation unit that calculates at least one of a deviation speed, which is the change rate of deviation between a target steering angle during autonomous driving and an actual steering angle, and a steering speed, which is the change rate of the actual steering angle, and a control mode switching unit that, when it is determined that the driver has operated the steering unit, changes an instruction value to be output to the actuator from a first target control amount in the first control mode to a second target control amount in the second control mode at a change rate corresponding to at least one of the deviation speed and the steering speed described above.

Autonomous driving control device

The steering device is configured to automatically perform a steering operation of a steering wheel. The steering device is configured to determine that the steering operation of the steering wheel has been performed by the driver based on the steering angle of the steering wheel and the target steering angle, at least during a driving mode in which the steering operation of the steering wheel is automatically performed, and when it is determined that the steering operation of the steering wheel has been performed by the driver, change the operation characteristics of the steering wheel so that the steering force required when the driver steers the steering wheel is reduced compared to before the determination.

Steering device

A traveling control apparatus that allows lane changing due to a driver's steering intervention while continuing lane maintenance control includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit sets a target trace along a lane in which a vehicle is traveling, determines a target steering angle of the vehicle based on the target trace and a lateral position of the vehicle, applies control torque to a steering shaft of the vehicle based on the target steering angle, resets, in response to a change in the lateral position due to the driver's steering intervention which exceeds the control torque and entrance of the vehicle into an adjacent lane, the target trace to the adjacent lane, and determines, using a gradual changing function, in response to the resetting of the target trace, the target steering angle by changing the target steering angle at the time of the resetting.

Traveling control apparatus

A steering control device includes: a first calculator configured to calculate, according to a turning state, a first control amount for causing a motor to generate an assistance force; a second calculator configured to calculate a second control amount for adapting an actual angle to a target angle that is convertible into a turning angle of a steering wheel and generated when a host control device intervenes in steering control; and a third calculator configured to calculate, according to the turning state, a third control amount for offsetting the second control amount when the host control device intervenes in steering control.

Steering control device

A vehicle control system includes an information acquirer configured to acquire vehicle surrounding information, and a controller configured to execute driving assistance control. The controller is configured to set a first line as a target traveling line when an operation status of the driving assistance control is ON. The controller is configured to set, when a driving switching request is made, the target traveling line to cause a vehicle to travel along a second line displaced from the first line by a predetermined displacement amount after a specific timing that is a timing when a predetermined time has elapsed from a requested timing.

Vehicle control system

Provided is a control apparatus for a vehicle configured to perform steering assist control and driving support control based on a motor control amount, the control apparatus being further configured to correct the motor control amount such that a specific steering amount in a second period becomes smaller than that in a first period, the specific steering amount being an amount of change in a steering angle required for a magnitude of a steering torque to reach a torque threshold, the first period being a period from a first time point at which a driving support operation state is changed to an on state to a second time point at which a driving operation switching request is issued, and the second period being a period from the second time point to a third time point at which the driving support operation state is changed to an off state.

Vehicle control apparatus and method

A vehicle driver assistance system includes: a steering assist torque generation device configured to generate steering assist torque; a control device configured to control the steering assist torque generation device; and a switch configured to switch a steering mode between a manual steering mode and an automatic steering mode. The manual steering mode is a mode in which steered wheels are steered as a driver operates a steering wheel. The automatic steering mode is a mode in which the steered wheels are steered by the steering assist torque generated by the steering assist torque generation device.

Vehicle driver assistance system

An automatic steering system comprises a controller. The controller executes target steering angle calculation processing. The controller further calculates a learning value of lateral acceleration. The learning value is calculated based on an error of a detected value of the lateral acceleration by an acceleration sensor and an estimation value of the lateral acceleration calculated using driving speed and yaw rate. In the target steering angle calculation processing, it is judged whether the acceleration sensor is normal. If it is judged that the acceleration sensor is normal, a target steering angle is calculated by using the detected value. Otherwise, the lateral acceleration used to calculate the target steering angle is switched from the detected value to a backup value of the lateral acceleration. The backup value is calculated using the estimation value and the learning value calculated before a timing at which the acceleration sensor is judged to be abnormal.

Automatic steering system and automatic steering method

An override conciliating portion executes processing to conciliate an override request during an execution of automated driving control (i.e., override conciliation processing). In the override conciliation processing, it is determined whether or not there is the override request (step S). If the determination result of the step Sis positive, it is determined whether or not a second automated driving mode is selected as an operation mode (step S). If the determination result of the step Sis negative, acceptance processing of the override request is executed (step S). If the determination result of the step Sis positive, invalidation processing of the override request is executed (step S).

Vehicle control system for a first and second automated driving mode

A control device controls a motor which includes a first stator coil and a second stator coil insulated from each other. The control device includes: a first drive circuit that is connected to the first stator coil; a second drive circuit that is connected to the second stator coil; a first processing circuit; and a second processing circuit. The first processing circuit increases an output of an integral element according to the number of control systems when the second processing circuit performs a process of switching a first use and operation process to a second use and operation process.

Control device

A control device for a motor including a first coil and a second coil which are insulated from each other is provided. The control device includes a first circuit and a second circuit that switches a first process to a second process when the first circuit fails. The external circuit generates an instruction for performing a process of increasing an amount of operation which is calculated by one of the first circuit and the second circuit according to the number of control systems when the other of the first circuit and the second circuit fails.

Control device for motor

A steering determination device determines a steering state in which a driver of a vehicle is steering a steering wheel of the vehicle. The device includes a torque recognition unit configured to recognize a steering torque based on a measurement result of a torque sensor provided on a steering shaft, an acceleration recognition unit configured to recognize longitudinal acceleration or lateral acceleration, a threshold value setting unit configured to set a threshold value for the determination of the steering state, based on the longitudinal acceleration or the lateral acceleration, and a steering determination unit configured to determine that the driver is in the steering state if the steering torque is equal to or greater than the threshold value. The threshold value setting unit is configured to set the threshold value such that the threshold value decreases as an absolute value of the longitudinal acceleration or the lateral acceleration decreases.

Steering determination device and autonomous driving system

A turning mechanism of a vehicle turns a wheel and is coupled to a steering wheel through a steering shaft. A torque sensor detects a torque applied to a first position of the steering shaft, as a sensor-detected torque. An upper friction torque is an absolute value of the sensor-detected torque that is caused by a friction force acting on the steering shaft between the first position and the steering wheel when the steering shaft is rotated. A vehicle control system repeatedly estimates the upper friction torque and variably sets a determination threshold to the estimated upper friction torque or more. The vehicle control system determines whether a driver state is a hands-on state or a hands-off state based on a comparison between the absolute value of the sensor-detected torque and the determination threshold.

A steering assistance device includes a steering wheel to which a driver of a vehicle inputs steering torque, a steering shaft connected to the steering wheel, a steering mechanism configured to convert a rotation of the steering shaft into a steering angle for steering target wheels, a steering actuator configured to drive the steering mechanism such that a steering angle corresponding to a command value is generated, a steering torque sensor configured to detect torque acting on the steering shaft, an information providing unit configured to provide road information of a scheduled passage area extending in a traveling direction of the vehicle, and an electronic control unit configured to control the steering actuator, based on an output of the steering torque sensor and the road information.

Steering assistance device

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Gotenba, Japan

Takahiro Kojo