Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

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Tatsuya Konishi

Kenta Ishii

Akinori Oi

Yuya Kaneda

Shinichi Okunishi

Keita Akiho

Katsunori Miyazawa

Isao Sekita

Tomoyuki Yokoyama

Tsutomu Terasaki

A travel control apparatus includes: a detection unit configured to detect an exterior environment situation around a subject vehicle; and a microprocessor configured to perform: recognizing, based on a detected value of the detection unit, a traveling state of a preceding vehicle on a current lane; determining, based on a recognized result, whether the preceding vehicle has started a deceleration; estimating a traveling trajectory of the preceding vehicle through a Kalman filter to which a physical quantity representing the traveling state of the preceding vehicle is to be inputted as an input value; and controlling a traveling actuator based on an estimated result to make the subject vehicle follow the preceding vehicle. The estimating includes, when it is determined that the preceding vehicle has started the deceleration, varying a weight for the Kalman filter.

Travel control apparatus

A control device that performs travel control of a vehicle, includes a processor configured to acquire output information of a sensor configured to detect an object in an around of the vehicle based on a reflected wave from the object. The processor is configured to: acquire detection point data of the object in a peripheral region of the vehicle based on the output information of the sensor; and recognize that a peripheral environment of the vehicle is a travel-restricted section based on a distribution of detection point data in a first group including a plurality pieces of the detection point data on one side in a left-right direction of the vehicle in the peripheral region.

Control device

A control device includes a processor configured to acquire output information of a first type of a first sensor and output information of a second type of a second sensor each configured to detect an object in an around of a vehicle, the processor performing first processing of recognizing a first range including a specific object among a plurality of ranges set in a peripheral region of the vehicle based on the output information of the first sensor, and second processing of recognizing a second range including the specific object among the plurality of ranges based on the output information of the second sensor, selecting a third range from the plurality of ranges obtained by excluding the first range based on the first range, and determining reliability of a recognition result of the first range based on a recognition result of the second processing for the third range.

A vehicle control apparatus including a camera, a detector acquiring position information of a target based on reflected wave and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform estimating a position of the target, based on position information acquired by the camera and the detector, controlling an actuator based on the estimated position, and detecting a predetermined gradient state in which a gradient of a road surface in front of a subject vehicle is an upward gradient of a predetermined degree or more with respect to a road surface at a current position of the subject vehicle and is configured to perform the estimating including estimating the position of the target by lowering a reliability of position information acquired by the camera among position information of the target captured on the road surface in the predetermined gradient state when the predetermined gradient state is detected.

Vehicle control apparatus

A deceleration detection apparatus including an object detection device that detects an object around a subject vehicle, a rainfall detection device that detects a rainfall state around the subject vehicle, a brightness detection device that detects a brightness around the subject vehicle, and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform determining whether a forward vehicle traveling in front of the subject vehicle decelerates, based on an amount of change in a vehicle speed of the forward vehicle detected by the object detection device, a lighting state of a brake lamp of the forward vehicle detected by the object detection device, the rainfall state detected by the rainfall detection device, and the brightness detected by the brightness detection device.

Deceleration detection apparatus

A surrounding vehicle monitoring device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a midpoint between a rear left end position and a rear right end position of another vehicle, acquire a width of the other vehicle, and change a current position of a great change position to a corrected position and acquire a midpoint between a current position of a small change position and the corrected position as a position of the other vehicle in a case where a changing amount of the width is equal to or more than a first threshold. The great change position is one of the rear left end position and the rear right end position whose changing amount is the greater of the two. The small change position is another of the rear left end position and the rear right end position whose changing amount is the smaller of the two.

Surrounding vehicle monitoring device and surrounding vehicle monitoring method

An information processing apparatus includes a first detection unit which detects an object around a vehicle, a second detection unit of which at least a part of a detection range overlaps a detection range of the first detection unit and which detects an object around the vehicle, and a determination unit which determines whether or not the object has started to move on the basis of detection results of the first detection unit and the second detection unit. The determination unit determines that the object has started to move in a case in which the vehicle and the object are in a halted state when a detection result of the first detection unit indicates that the object has started to move and a detection result of the second detection unit indicates that the object has started to move.

Information processing apparatus, vehicle system, information processing method, and storage medium

A recognition device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first detection result from a LIDAR that detects a target present in a traveling direction of a vehicle and to acquire a second detection result from a camera disposed so that the detection range overlaps that of the LIDAR, and a recognition unit configured to recognize a target present around the vehicle on the basis of the first detection result and the second detection result, in which the recognition unit executes exclusion processing of excluding a target, that satisfies all of a first condition indicating that a target is present within a predetermined distance from the vehicle, a second condition indicating that a target is detected by the LIDAR and is not detected by the camera, and a third condition indicating that a width of a target is equal to or less than a predetermined value and a detection duration thereof is equal to or less than a predetermined time, from a result of recognition recognized as a target present around the vehicle.

Recognition device, vehicle system, recognition method, and storage medium

A structure of vehicle seat including a seat cushion frame pivoted therein, a striker, and a lock mechanism for locking and unlocking the seat cushion frame to and from the striker. The lock mechanism is disposed in the rearward area of the seat cushion frame, while the striker is fixed on the floor of vehicle, so as to allow smooth and direct escape of a great load from the seat cushion frame via the striker to the floor. This avoids the necessity of any reinforcement leading to weight increase of the seat. Also, a seat belt is provided in the seat cushion frame together with the lock mechanism in an integral manner.

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Wako, Japan

Tatsuya Konishi