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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2023
Applicant:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuhiro Nishiwaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02);
Abstract
A travel support device includes processing circuitry configured to output a target speed of a merging vehicle that is going to change lanes; acquire a current speed of the merging vehicle and calculate a first control amount; acquire a position and a speed of a merging destination vehicle; acquire a current position of the merging vehicle and calculate a second control amount; acquire a speed of the merging vehicle and calculate a predicted position of the merging destination vehicle when the current speed of the merging vehicle has reached the target speed; and output one of the first or second control amount.