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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2019
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a vehicle control device. A vehicle control device includes an autonomous driving control unit configured to determine a travel route when implementing autonomous driving based on surrounding environment information and position information of a vehicle and calculate and output a control amount in accordance with the travel route, a monitoring unit configured to monitor a calculation time of the autonomous driving control unit, and a switching unit configured to receive output from the autonomous driving control unit and output the control amount or an alternative control amount in place of the control amount based on instruction of the monitoring unit, in which the monitoring unit is configured to, when the calculation time exceeds a threshold value, notify the autonomous driving control unit of a calculation interruption request, notify the switching unit of a control amount switching request.