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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2017
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Masato Imai, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Kentaro Yoshimura, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Yorozuya, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., Hitachinaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a vehicle control device in which it is possible to modify the travel trajectory of a vehicle in response to the presence of an obstruction in the vehicle perimeter. In the present invention, the vehicle control devicerecognizes the surroundings of the vehicle, detects a first branching point in a first route that is preset on a road, and in cases in which a prescribed condition is met by the presence of an obstruction detected from the recognized surroundings when the vehicle is to move along a travel trajectory that is based on at least one second route from among a plurality of second routes that branch from the first branching point, generates a virtual route which branches from the first route at a second branching point differing from the first branching point toward the selected second route, and modifies the travel trajectory on the basis of the generated virtual route.