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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2013
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yoshitaka Fujita, Susono, JP;
Takahiro Kojo, Gotemba, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
Lane keeping control is ended in accurate timing which does not give an uncomfortable feeling to a driver. In a vehiclewhich is provided with a steering mechanism, an EPS actuator, and a VGRS actuatorand which can change a rudder angle regardless of a driver's steering input due to the cooperative control of the aforementioned mechanism and actuators, an ECUperforms LKA end control. In the control, in cases where a winker leveris operated in a period of performing LKA control for making the vehiclefollow a target driving route, if the indicated direction of the winker leveris different from a generation direction of generating an assist steering torque TA of the EPS actuatorin the LKA control, the LKA control is promptly ended. In cases where the indicated direction is equal to the generation direction, if a steering angle MAdrv corresponding to the driver's steering input exceeds a steering angle MAlka generated by the LKA control, the LKA control is ended.