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Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2021
Applicant:

Kawasaki Motors, Ltd., Akashi, JP;

Inventors:

Takenori Terada, Kobe, JP;

Atsushi Sano, Kobe, JP;

Kazuya Nagasaka, Kobe, JP;

Taichi Inaba, Kobe, JP;

Assignee:

KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD., Akashi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/06 (2012.01); B60W 40/068 (2012.01); B60W 40/072 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2530/10 (2013.01); B60W 2552/30 (2020.02); B60W 2552/35 (2020.02); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02); B60W 2720/10 (2013.01); B60W 2720/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control requirement determiner includes: a storage that stores at least one piece of location information and one piece of behavior information as past data in which the location information and the behavior information are associated with each other, the location information indicating a geographic location, the behavior information being related to a behavior exhibited by a vehicle body of a vehicle at the location indicated by the location information when the vehicle traveled in the past; and processing circuitry that calculates, based on the vehicle speed information, the acceleration information, and the sprung weight information of the past data, a degree of unevenness of a road surface, and determines, based on the calculated degree of unevenness of the road surface, a control requirement to be imposed on a control target of a rough terrain vehicle at the location indicated by the location information of the past data during travel.


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