Denso Corporation

Takeshi Miura

Hiroaki Niino

Masao Oooka

Yasuhiko Mukai

Hiroshi Mizuno

Koji Fujiki

Shotaro Fukuda

Takahiro Narita

Hitoshi Wada

Masanobu Yamaguchi

Tetsuya Tokuda

Hiroaki Ohshima

Masayoshi Oishi

Masao Ohoka

A travelling support apparatus includes: a communication section that communicates with a vehicle around an own vehicle; a state determination section that determines whether a driver is capable of driving appropriately; a path setting section that sets an evacuation path for bringing the own vehicle to an emergency stop on the basis of a certain algorithm when the state determination section determines that the driver is incapable of driving appropriately; an information acquisition section that acquires various types of information required for execution of the algorithm; an evacuation control section that performs evacuation traveling to bring the own vehicle to the emergency stop along the evacuation path set by the path setting section; and an information transmitting section that transmits, to the vehicle around the own vehicle via the communication section, information indicating that the own vehicle performs the evacuation traveling.

Travelling support apparatus

A driving support apparatus includes a driving support unit, a switching control unit, a reliability detection unit, and a threshold lowering unit. The switching control unit ceases driving support by the driving support unit and switches a driving state from driving in which the driving support is performed to manual driving, according to input from an operation detection unit when operating force or an operation amount exceeds a threshold. The reliability detection unit detects degradation of reliability of the driving support by the driving support unit. The threshold lowering unit lowers the threshold when the reliability detection unit detects the degradation of the reliability.

Driving support apparatus, driving support method, and recording medium

In a collision avoidance apparatus (), a first information acquisition unit () generates first information that includes the position, speed and advancement direction of a first mobile body, and obtains first information from a first information transmitting unit () having a transmitting function. A second information acquisition unit () obtains second information that includes the position, speed and advancement direction of a second mobile body. A first mobile body prediction unit () predicts positions (P) of the first mobile body at future time points T, based on the first information, and a second mobile body prediction unit () predicts the positions (P) of the second mobile body at the time points T, based on the second information. A judgement unit () judges whether or not the positions (P) of the first mobile body and the positions (P) of the second mobile body satisfy predetermined conditions, and if the conditions are satisfied, a signal outputting unit () outputs a signal which is specific to that case.

Collision avoidance apparatus, collision avoidance system, and driving support method

An evacuation control apparatus includes a decrease detecting unit, a rear monitoring unit, and an evacuation control unit. The decrease detecting unit detects decrease in a consciousness level of a driver of an own vehicle. The rear monitoring unit monitors a state behind the own vehicle. The evacuation control unit outputs control information for making the own vehicle perform an emergency evacuation based on monitoring results of the rear monitoring unit, when the decrease detecting unit detects decrease in the consciousness level of the driver.

Evacuation control apparatus and evacuation control method

An evacuation travel assist apparatus includes a stop lane determination section that determines a stop lane and an evacuation place in the stop lane in which an own vehicle should be urgently stopped when the vehicle drive is detected to be in a state of being not able to drive the own vehicle properly, and a transverse position determination section that determines, as a stop transverse position, a position in a transverse direction of the evacuation place in the stop lane so as to ensure a space for the vehicle driver and passengers to get in and out of the own vehicle safely at a side of the own vehicle.

Evacuation travel assist apparatus

A collision avoidance apparatus provided with object recognition means, collision determination means, and notification means. The object recognition means identifies an object around an own vehicle. The collision determination means determines the possibility of a collision between an object identified by the object recognition means and the own vehicle. The notification means notifies the outside of the own vehicle about the movement direction of the vehicle if the collision determination means determines that the target object is an object having the potential for collision with the own vehicle.

Collision avoidance apparatus for notification of collision avoidance direction

In an evacuation travelling assistance apparatus, a risk determining unit determines, when a driver is not in a state capable of appropriately performing driving operations, a risk involved in stopping at a location and a risk involved in passing through the location, for each of a plurality of locations that may serve as an advancing destination of the own vehicle, based on map information, own vehicle information, and peripheral environment information. The risk determining unit evaluates, for each of the plurality of locations, at least one evaluation subject among a plurality of evaluation subject including: a risk occurrence frequency at the location; a risk avoidability at the location; and a level of danger of the risk occurring at the location, based on a plurality of levels, and determines the risk involved in stopping at each location and the risk involved in passing through each location, based on evaluation results.

Evacuation travelling assistance apparatus

In an evacuation travelling assistance apparatus, a risk determining unit determines, when a driver is not in a state capable of appropriately performing driving operations, a risk involved in stopping at a location and a risk involved in passing through the location, for each of a plurality of locations that may serve as an advancing destination of the own vehicle, based on map information, own vehicle information, and peripheral environment information. An evacuation destination setting unit sets a location at which the risk involved in stopping at the location is lower than a predetermined reference as an evacuation destination, based on the determined risk. An evacuation route setting unit combines locations at which the risk involved in passing through the location is lower than a predetermined reference, based on the determined risk, and sets an evacuation route from the current position of the own vehicle to the evacuation destination.

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Kariya, Japan

Takeshi Miura