Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Yojiro Koike

Eiichi Ono

Yuji Muragishi

Yoshikazu Hattori

Yoshiki Ninomiya

Yuichi Tanaka

Kiyokazu Sunami

Yoshikatsu Kisanuki

Takero Hongo

Arata Takahashi

Kazunori Furukawa

The invention provides a vehicle motion control device capable of realizing optimum avoidance control in the case of an emergency. The vehicle motion control device includes an external environment detection unit for detecting external environment, and a travel state detection unit for detecting a travel state of a driver's vehicle. An obstruction is detected based on the external environment detected by the external environment detection unit, and an environment map indicating obstructions is created. A control device estimates a plurality of possible avoidance actions for avoiding an obstruction based on the environment map and the travel state of the driver's vehicle detected by the travel state detection unit. The control device estimates collision damage according to each avoidance action estimated by the avoidance action estimation unit, and selects an appropriate avoidance action based on the estimated collision damage. The control device controls a vehicle such that the selected avoidance action is carried out.

Vehicle motion control device

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Seto, Japan

Yojiro Koike