Control device, control method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12479425-B2
Application number	US-202418603250-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2024
Priority date	Mar 15, 2023
Publication date	Nov 25, 2025
Grant date	Nov 25, 2025

Abstract

A control device includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding situation of a mobile body, a path generator that generates a path through which a reference position of the mobile body is to pass based on the surrounding situation, a passage area setter that sets boundary lines of a passage area of the mobile body at positions that are offset to the left and right from the path, a corrector that corrects the path based on the passage area and the surrounding situation of the mobile body, and a controller that controls a drive device provided in the mobile body such that the mobile body moves along the path corrected by the corrector, wherein when the path includes a turn, the passage area setter makes an amount of offset on an outside of the turn greater than an amount of offset on an inside of the turn.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A control device comprising:
a storage medium configured to store computer-readable instructions; and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable instructions to: recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile body; generate a path through which a reference position of the mobile body is to pass based on the surrounding situation; set boundary lines of a passage area of the mobile body at positions that are offset to the left and right from the path; correct the path based on the passage area and the surrounding situation of the mobile body; and control a drive device provided in the mobile body such that the mobile body moves along the corrected path, wherein setting the boundary lines of the passage area includes, when the path includes a turn, making an amount of offset on an outside of the turn greater than an amount of offset on an inside of the turn, and wherein the processor connects arrival points at intervals of a predetermined distance to generate the path, the reference position is a center of a rear wheel axel of the mobile body, and the processor determines an amount by which the path is to be offset to the outside of the turn based on a distance from a position of a front wheel on the outside of the turn at a time when the reference position of the mobile body reaches each arrival point to a turn center which is obtained as an intersection between a reference line that passes through the reference position of the mobile body and extends to a side of the mobile body and a line perpendicular to the path.

2 . The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor further determines the amount by which the path is to be offset to the outside of the turn based on a position of a front wheel on the outside of the turn at a time when the reference position of the mobile body reaches each arrival point.

3 . The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor repeats setting boundary lines of a passage area of the mobile body again at positions that are offset to the left and right from the corrected path and correcting the path again based on the passage area set again and the surrounding situation of the mobile body.

4 . A control method performed using a control device, the control method comprising:
recognizing a surrounding situation of a mobile body; generating a path through which a reference position of the mobile body is to pass based on the surrounding situation; setting boundary lines of a passage area of the mobile body at positions that are offset to the left and right from the path; correcting the path based on the passage area and the surrounding situation of the mobile body; and controlling a drive device provided in the mobile body such that the mobile body moves along the corrected path; connecting arrival points at intervals of a predetermined distance to generate the path, the reference position is a center of a rear wheel axel of the mobile body, and determining an amount by which the path is to be offset to the outside of the turn based on a distance from a position of a front wheel on the outside of the turn at a time when the reference position of the mobile body reaches each arrival point to a turn center which is obtained as an intersection between a reference line that passes through the reference position of the mobile body and extends to a side of the mobile body and a line perpendicular to the path, wherein setting the boundary lines of the passage area includes, when the path includes a turn, making an amount of offset on an outside of the turn greater than an amount of offset on an inside of the turn.

5 . A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium storing a program causing a processor of a control device to:
recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile body; generate a path through which a reference position of the mobile body is to pass based on the surrounding situation; set boundary lines of a passage area of the mobile body at positions that are offset to the left and right from the path; correct the path based on the passage area and the surrounding situation of the mobile body; and control a drive device provided in the mobile body such that the mobile body moves along the corrected path, wherein setting the boundary lines of the passage area includes, when the path includes a turn, making an amount of offset on an outside of the turn greater than an amount of offset on an inside of the turn, and wherein the processor connects arrival points at intervals of a predetermined distance to generate the path, the reference position is a center of a rear wheel axel of the mobile body, and the processor determines an amount by which the path is to be offset to the outside of the turn based on a distance from a position of a front wheel on the outside of the turn at a time when the reference position of the mobile body reaches each arrival point to a turn center which is obtained as an intersection between a reference line that passes through the reference position of the mobile body and extends to a side of the mobile body and a line perpendicular to the path.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Baba Ichiro
• Yasui Yuji

Classifications

• B60W2552/53

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• B60W30/12

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• B60W2554/20

  Static objects · CPC title

• B60W30/09 Primary

  Taking automatic action to avoid collision, e.g. braking and steering · CPC title

• B60W30/18145 Primary

  Cornering · CPC title