Denso Corporation

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Advics Co., Ltd.

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Yasuhiko Mukai

Mitsuhiro Tokimasa

Hirofumi Nitta

Masatoshi Hanzawa

Junpei Tatsukawa

Yuichi Mizutani

Masaki Maruyama

Hideki Kabune

Nobuhiko Uryu

Noriyasu Noto

Yoshihisa Ogata

Hajime Kumabe

Tetsuya Tokuda

Masashi Hori

Hisaya Akatsuka

Masanobu Yamaguchi

Kouichi Nakamura

Daisuke Tokumochi

Motoaki Kataoka

Makoto Iwasaki

Takafumi Satou

Takeshi Miura

Yoshifumi Morita

Yasunobu Sugiura

Hiroyuki Ukai

Genki Kitahara

Takashi Suzuki

Koichi Nakamura

Tomohito Terazawa

Toshihisa Yamamoto

Hiroyasu Otake

Ryo Kano

Kiyoshi Fujii

Hitoshi Wada

Satoshi Horihata

Hideshi Izuhara

Hiroaki Ohshima

Atsushi Baba

Yosuke Hattori

Takeshi Wada

Kanta Arai

Hiroaki Ooshima

Kyoichi Sugahara

A map server includes a difficult place setting unit, a distribution map generation unit, and a distribution processing unit. The difficult place setting unit identifies, based on a cancel point report from a vehicle, a difficult place which is a point where vehicle control involving a driving support or automatic driving is highly likely cancelled. The distribution map generation unit generates, as a map of a difficult place area related to the difficult place, distribution maps respectively including map information denser than a map of a normal area that is an area other than the difficult place area. The distribution maps of the normal area, which does not include detailed map information, contributes to a reduction of data amount in an entire map distribution scheme, when, for example, distributing map data over the network.

Map server and map distribution method

A traffic signal recognition device recognizes a traffic signal present around a vehicle. The device acquires a position of the vehicle, and acquires a position of the traffic signal registered in map data based on the acquired position of the vehicle. The device acquires a position of a lighting device detected using an image frame captured by an in-vehicle camera. The device determines whether the lighting device corresponds to the traffic signal based on a difference between the acquired position of the traffic signal and the acquired position of the lighting device.

Traffic signal recognition device, traffic signal recognition method and vehicle control device

A parking lot identification system includes a control apparatus mounted to each of a plurality of vehicles and a central apparatus that communicates with the control apparatus of each of the plurality of vehicles. In the control apparatus of each of the plurality of vehicles, a parking determination unit is configured to determine whether a parking action of the vehicle is recognized, a parking-related data acquisition unit is configured to, in response to the parking action of the vehicle being recognized, acquire parking-related data including data of a location and an orientation of the vehicle during the parking action, and a parking-related data transmission unit is configured to transmit the parking-related data to the central apparatus. The central apparatus is configured to identify a parking lot area based on the parking-related data transmitted from the plurality of vehicles.

Parking lot identification system and method

A driving assistance device includes a travel information acquisition unit, a first information acquisition unit, a second information acquisition unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit, a first avoidance-amount setting unit, a second avoidance-amount setting unit, and a driving control unit. The second avoidance-amount setting unit sets, when the second avoidance-amount setting unit sets a control amount of a driving control as a second avoidance amount for performing a second avoidance driving action, the control amount smaller than a control amount that is set as a first avoidance amount by the first avoidance-amount setting unit, and sets, when the second avoidance-amount setting unit sets a start timing of the driving control as the second avoidance amount for performing the second avoidance driving action, the start timing later than a start timing that is set as the first avoidance amount by the first avoidance-amount setting unit.

Driving assistance device

An information processing apparatus installed in a vehicle includes a driving control section and a preparation control section. The driving control section executes automated driving of the vehicle. The preparation control section executes, when the automated driving is being executed by the driving control section, preparation control which is control that stops at least a part of the automated driving and makes the driver perform a preparation switching to driving by the driver of the vehicle.

Information processing apparatus

A driving mode switching device includes a determination section, a notification section, a detection section, and a control section. The determination section is configured to determine whether a state has occurred in which automatic driving needs to be terminated. The notification section is configured to notify a driver of the instruction for performing a switching operation as a predetermined operation of a vehicle in the case of determining, by the determination section, that the state has occurred in which the automatic driving needs to be terminated. The detection section is configured to detect the switching operation. The control section is configured to switch travelling from automatic driving to manual driving in the case of detecting the switching operation by the detection section.

Driving mode switching device

A driving support control unit of a driving support apparatus executes driving support control for supporting at least part of driving by a driver. A support determining unit determines whether or not predetermined conditions for terminating the driving support control are satisfied. A physical amount acquiring unit acquires a physical amount corresponding to a curviness degree of a driving lane on which an own vehicle drives. A curviness degree determining unit determines whether or not a curviness degree indicated by the physical amount acquired by the physical amount acquiring unit is smaller than a predetermined degree in the case where the predetermined conditions for terminating the driving support control are satisfied. A termination command unit commands the driving support control unit to terminate the driving support control if the curviness degree determining unit determines that the curviness degree is smaller than the predetermined degree.

Driving support apparatus

The likelihood of a collision of a vehicle colliding with an object in front of an own vehicle is determined, and an emergency braking control for avoiding a collision with the object is started in accordance with the determination results. A determination is made as to whether travel environment conditions have been established, from the location at which the vehicle is currently travelling, the situation behind the vehicle, and, the travel state of the vehicle, and the braking control is released when the likelihood of a collision dropped to a predetermined safety level during the period from the start of the emergency braking control until the own vehicle stops, and when the travel environment conditions have been established.

Collision avoidance support device provided with braking release means and collision avoidance support method

A drive assist apparatus includes a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of an own vehicle, a position of a tollgate present ahead of the position of the own vehicle, and a position of a target lane in a road present ahead of the tollgate, a scheduled traveling route creation unit that creates a scheduled traveling route from the position of the own vehicle to the position of the target lane through the position of the tollgate, and a travel control unit that controls the own vehicle so as to travel along the scheduled traveling route.

Drive assist apparatus

A traveling assistance apparatus recognizes a travel road on which a vehicle is traveling, acquires a traveling state of the vehicle, and determines whether or not the vehicle will deviate from the travel road based on the recognition result of the travel road and the traveling state of the vehicle. The apparatus determines whether to perform, as a prevention method for preventing from the travel road, a method in which either of steering control and brake control of the vehicle is performed, or a method in which a period over which either of the steering control and the brake control is performed and a period over which both of the steering control and the brake control are performed are set. The apparatus sets a steering amount for the steering control and a brake amount for the brake control when the deviation prevention control is performed based on the prevention method.

Traveling assistance apparatus

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

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

A collision avoidance apparatus includes a control unit that is configured to perform a collision avoidance process. The control unit determines whether or not an object is present ahead of the own vehicle. When the control unit determines that an object ahead is present, the control unit determines whether or not there is a likelihood of a collision between the object ahead and the own vehicle and whether or not a corner is present ahead of the own vehicle. When the control unit determines that a corner is not present and when a predetermined collision avoidance condition is established, the control unit is capable of changing a travelling direction of the own vehicle to avoid collision between the object ahead and the own vehicle. When the control unit determines that a corner is present, the control unit does not perform a travelling direction change of the own vehicle.

Collision avoidance apparatus

A control section of a steering controller calculates a steer angle which is a turning angle of a first column shaft based on a first detection value detected by a steer angle sensor, and calculates a second shaft turning angle which is a turning angle of a second column shaft based on a second detection value detected by a second shaft rotation angle sensor. A steering torque detection value is calculated based on a third detection value detected by a torque sensor. An abnormality determination part determines abnormalities of the steering torque detection value based on the steer angle and the second shaft turning angle. Thereby, abnormalities of the steering torque detection value are detected without multiplexing the steering torque detection value. Further, if the steering torque detection value is multiplexed, an abnormal steering torque detection value can be specifically identified.

Steering controller

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