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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2022
Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Kenta Morishima, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to obtain a vehicle control device capable of guiding a host vehicle to a narrow area by low-speed automatic driving by quick and precise positioning of the host vehicle, and guiding the host vehicle to a stop position of which details are unknown by designating each stop frame by beacons. A vehicle control deviceaccording to the present invention includes a wireless reception unitthat receives radio waves through a plurality of antennasmounted on a host vehicle, the radio waves being transmitted from a plurality of beacons, a position information acquisition unitthat obtains position information of the beacons using orientation information of the radio waves received by the wireless reception unit, and a guidance area estimation unitthat sets a diagonal lineof a rectangular areafrom the position information and estimates a guidance areafrom the diagonal line.