Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yukihiro Fujiwara

Yasushi Shoda

Mitsuharu Kanaboshi

Hiroshi Hashimoto

Shotaro Odate

Shigenobu Saigusa

Hiroyuki Kawagoe

Yusuke Nakamura

Satoshi Hiyama

Kazutaka Saito

Kenichi Ohshima

Masato Yuda

Yasuhiro Konishi

Yoshitaka Katashima

Akira Nakamuta

Manabu Shimizu

Masahiko Niki

There is provided a system for immediately reflecting an intention of a driver wanting to avoid an obstacle to assistance to an avoidance operation. A vehicular operation assisting system for assisting the avoidance operation made by the driver of a vehicle in avoiding the obstacle includes an avoidance required distance calculating section for periodically calculating an avoidance required distance that is a distance required to avoid the obstacle when the obstacle is detected ahead of the vehicle, an avoidance operation determining section for periodically determining the avoidance operation with respect to the obstacle on the basis of steering maneuvers of the driver and an avoidance operation assisting degree calculating section for periodically calculating an avoidance operation assisting degree per based on the avoidance required distance calculated by the avoidance required distance calculating section and the judgment result of the avoidance operation determining section.

Vehicular operation assisting system

The vehicle maneuver assistance device includes: a plurality of external environment imaging units; a converter that performs a view point conversion; a display unit provided in an interior of the present-vehicle; a steering angle status value detector which detects status values of the steering angle representing an actual steering angle of the present-vehicle, and outputs a steering angle status value; a display controller that causes the display unit to display the converted image, and, overlaid thereon, a guidance display which assists a parking maneuver of the present-vehicle, wherein the display controller controls the guidance display according to the steering angle status value, so that the guidance display includes: an initial positioning guide line representing an initial location of the present-vehicle at the beginning of the parking maneuver; and a steering-switching start positioning guide line representing a starting location of a quick steering direction switching.

Vehicle maneuver assistance device

A control apparatus for a vehicle including an inertia force sensor for detecting an inertia force generated in the vehicle and a cooperative control unit connected to the inertia force sensor and connected also to a braking/driving force control unit and a steering control unit so that bidirectional communication is allowed, for deciding and outputting controlled variables or controlled correction variables of the braking/driving force control unit and the steering control unit according to the inertia force detected by the inertia force sensor and according to controlled conditions of the braking/driving force control unit and the steering control unit.

Control apparatus for vehicle having cooperative control unit

A vehicle seat-belt apparatus including: a forward monitoring device which conducts monitoring to the front of a vehicle; an avoidance assist device which supports a predetermined avoidance operation in order to avoid an obstacle when it is determined that there is an obstacle to be avoided based on a detection result of the forward monitoring device; a motor which conducts a rotary driving of a belt reel on which a belt is wound; and a control device which controls the motor, wherein the control device conducts a drive control of the motor according to a state of support of the avoidance operation by the avoidance assist device.

Vehicle seat-belt device and control method thereof

A vehicle operation assist system includes as assist yaw rate calculator which calculates a necessary moving amount to avoid an obstacle based on a detection result of the obstacle by a radar device, and a vehicle movement controller controls lateral movement of the vehicle based on the calculated moving amount. When an avoiding operation detector determines initiation of an obstacle avoiding operation by the driver, the vehicle movement controller operates a braking device to control the lateral movement of the vehicle, so that the obstacle can be reliably avoided. When a restoring operation detector determines initiation of a restoring operation, the vehicle movement controller operates a power steering device to control the lateral movement of the vehicle, so that delay in the steering operation by the driver, and excessive restoring operation of the steering handle to compensate for the delay are suppressed, thus stabilizing vehicle behavior.

Vehicle operation assisting system

A vehicle operation assisting system includes an assist yaw rate calculator which calculates an assist yaw rate necessary to avoid an obstacle based on a detection result of the obstacle by a radar device, an actual vehicle moving amount calculator which calculates an actual vehicle moving amount from a yaw rate and a lateral acceleration of a vehicle. When an avoiding operation detector determines an avoiding operation of a driver, a target vehicle moving amount setting device replaces a standard moving amount based on an avoiding operation of a driver with the assist yaw rate, and a vehicle movement controller controls lateral movement of the vehicle so that the actual vehicle moving amount agrees with the assist yaw rate. At this time, in addition to the yaw rate, the lateral acceleration is also used for calculating the actual vehicle moving amount, and therefore an upset of the vehicle behavior can be avoided by properly controlling the lateral movement of the vehicle on a road having a low friction coefficient on which the tires easily skid. A vehicle operation assisting system capable of properly performing an obstacle avoiding operation and a restoring operation even on a road having a low friction coefficient is thereby provided.

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Saitama, Japan

Yukihiro Fujiwara