Vehicle control device

Abstract

The present invention provides a vehicle control device capable of enhancing the ability of reducing or avoiding collision damage in a vehicle where a behavior of the vehicle when a braking operation is performed is largely influenced corresponding to a state of load (a loaded state), for example. The vehicle control device includes: a travelability determination unitconfigured to determine whether or not a vehicleis travelable in an area disposed ahead of the vehicle on left and right sides of the vehicle; a deflection estimation unitconfigured to estimate deflection of the vehicledue to generation of a brake force applied to the vehicle; and a braking control unitconfigured to calculate deceleration and deceleration start timing based on a distance between the vehicleand an obstacle ahead of the vehicleand a relative speed of the vehicleto the obstacle, and configured to change at least one of the deceleration and the deceleration start timing based on a travelability determination result acquired from the travelability determination unitand a deflection estimation result acquired from the deflection estimation unit