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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2002
Toshiyuki Kondo, Kariya, JP;
Mamoru Sawada, Yokkaichi, JP;
Motoaki Kataoka, Kariya, JP;
DENSO Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle travel control apparatus makes an own vehicle automatically follow a vehicle in front by setting a target acceleration/deceleration Gusing travel data expressing behavior of the vehicle, travel environment, driving operations and others. Here, during vehicle travel based on driver control, multiple travel data are sampled a predetermined number of times to perform multiple regression analysis on that sampled data. Preference data expressing preferences of the driver (multiple regression coefficients) are thereby obtained, and target acceleration/deceleration computation data are updated using these multiple regression coefficients. As a result, it is possible to control the behavior of the vehicle in accordance with preferences of the driver during automatic following control execution.