Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11505178-B2
Application number	US-202016815036-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2020
Priority date	Mar 15, 2019
Publication date	Nov 22, 2022
Grant date	Nov 22, 2022

Abstract

A vehicle control device includes a communicator configured to communicate with a parking lot management device having a function of guiding a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform driving control including at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle, and an abnormality determiner configured to determine the presence or absence of an abnormality in the parking lot management device. The driving controller is configured to perform the driving control based on guidance of the parking lot management device on the basis of information received by the communicator from the parking lot management device and to restrict the driving control based on the guidance of the parking lot management device in a case where the abnormality determiner determines that the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle control device comprising:
a communicator configured to communicate with a parking lot management device having a function of guiding a vehicle;
a driving controller configured to perform driving control including at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle; and
an abnormality determiner configured to determine the presence or absence of an abnormality in the parking lot management device,
wherein the driving controller is configured to perform the driving control based on guidance of the parking lot management device on the basis of information received by the communicator from the parking lot management device, restrict the driving control based on the guidance of the parking lot management device in a case where the abnormality determiner determines that the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device,
wherein, in a case where the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device after the vehicle entered a parking lot managed by the parking lot management device,
restrict acceptance of a request of automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device from a user of the vehicle during automated parking based on the guidance of the parking lot management device and to perform control for enabling the vehicle to perform the automated parking in an independent manner independently of the guidance of the parking lot management device,
restrict the acceptance of the request of the automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device from the user of the vehicle while the vehicle is on standby in the parking lot, and
restrict the acceptance of the request of the automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device from the user of the vehicle during the automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device and to perform control for manual driving by the user of the vehicle or control for enabling the vehicle to perform the automated exiting in the independent manner independently of the guidance of the parking lot management device.

2. The vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device before the vehicle enters a parking lot managed by the parking lot management device, the driving controller is configured to restrict acceptance of a request of automated parking based on the guidance of the parking lot management device from a user of the vehicle and to perform control for manual driving by the user of the vehicle or control for enabling the vehicle to perform automated driving in an independent manner independently of the guidance of the parking lot management device.

3. The vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device after the vehicle entered a parking lot managed by the parking lot management device, the driving controller is configured to restrict acceptance of a request of automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device from a user of the vehicle and to perform control for manual driving by the user of the vehicle or control for enabling the vehicle to perform automated parking or the automated exiting in an independent manner independently of the guidance of the parking lot management device.

4. The vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device during automated parking or automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device, the driving controller is configured to stop the automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device and to perform control for enabling the vehicle to perform the automated parking in an independent manner independently of the guidance of the parking lot management device in an evacuation space.

5. The vehicle control device according to claim 4 , wherein the driving controller is configured to determine an empty parking space nearest to the vehicle or an empty road shoulder nearest to the vehicle as the evacuation space.

6. The vehicle control device according to claim 4 , wherein the driving controller is configured to determine the evacuation space in an area away from an area where traffic congestion occurs in a case where the traffic congestion occurs in the vicinity of the vehicle.

7. The vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein the abnormality determiner is configured to determine that the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device in a case where the communicator is unable to communicate with the parking lot management device or in a case where the parking lot management device is unable to guide the vehicle in a state in which the communicator is able to communicate with the parking lot management device.

8. The vehicle control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a notification controller configured to control an output to notify a user of the vehicle of a restriction in a case where control for automated parking or automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device is restricted.

9. The vehicle control device according to claim 1 , wherein the driving controller is configured to perform control for automated parking and automated exiting of the vehicle in a case where the abnormality determiner determines that the abnormality of the parking lot management device has been eliminated.

10. A vehicle control method using a vehicle computer, comprising:
communicating with a parking lot management device for guiding a vehicle;
performing driving control including at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle;
determining the presence or absence of an abnormality in the parking lot management device;
performing the driving control based on guidance of the parking lot management device on the basis of information received from the parking lot management device;
restricting the driving control based on the guidance of the parking lot management device in a case where it is determined that the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device;
wherein, in a case where the abnormality has occurred in the parking lot management device after the vehicle entered a parking lot managed by the parking lot management device,
restricting acceptance of a request of automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device from a user of the vehicle during automated parking based on the guidance of the parking lot management device and to perform control for enabling the vehicle to perform the automated parking in an independent manner independently of the guidance of the parking lot management device;
restricting the acceptance of the request of the automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device from the user of the vehicle while the vehicle is on standby in the parking lot; and
restrict the acceptance of the request of the automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device from the user of the vehicle during the automated exiting based on the guidance of the parking lot management device and to perform control for manual driving by the user of the vehicle or control for enabling the vehicle to perform the automated exiting in the independent manner independently of the guidance of the parking lot management device.

11. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a vehicle computer to:
communicate with a parking lot management device for guidi

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamanaka Hiroshi
• Mimura Yoshitaka
• Sugihara Chie
• Motegi Yuki
• Shibauchi Tsubasa

Classifications

• B60W2050/021

  Means for detecting failure or malfunction · CPC title

• B60W10/04

  including control of propulsion units · CPC title

• B60W50/14

  Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention · CPC title

• B60W50/0205

  Diagnosing or detecting failures; Failure detection models · CPC title

• B60W10/20

  including control of steering systems · CPC title