Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and vehicle control program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017315551-A1
Application number	US-201715581530-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 28, 2017
Priority date	Apr 28, 2016
Publication date	Nov 2, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A vehicle control system includes: an automated drive control unit that performs automated driving where at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle is performed automatically, the automated drive control unit executing handover where an automated drive mode is switched to a manual driving mode; a calculating unit that calculates an occurrence frequency of the handover or an occurrence probability of the handover on a traveling route that the vehicle will travel; and a presentation unit that presents the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover that has been calculated, to an occupant of the vehicle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A vehicle control system comprising:
an automated drive control unit configured to perform automated driving where at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle is performed automatically, the automated drive control unit executing handover which switches an automated drive mode to a manual driving mode during a travel of the vehicle on a traveling route to a preset destination; a calculating unit configured to calculate an occurrence frequency of the handover or an occurrence probability of the handover on the traveling route that the vehicle will travel; and a presentation unit configured to present the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover that has been calculated, to an occupant of the vehicle.

2 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a traveling route determining unit configured to determine one or more traveling routes to the preset destination, wherein the calculating unit calculates the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover for each of the one or more traveling routes, and wherein the presentation unit presents the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover for each of the one or more traveling routes.

3 . The vehicle control system according to claim 2 ,
wherein the presentation unit comprises one or more display units that display images, and wherein the traveling route determining unit displays the traveling route to the destination and the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover on the traveling route, on the display unit.

4 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the calculating unit calculates a handover occurrence count on the traveling route, which is presented as the handover occurrence frequency.

5 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the calculating unit calculates a handover occurrence count on the traveling route, and a handover occurrence rate based on a ratio between the handover occurrence count and a predetermined reference handover occurrence count corresponding to the traveling route, the handover occurrence rate being presented as the handover occurrence frequency.

6 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a storage unit configured to store history data relating to past occurrences of the handover on the traveling route, wherein the calculating unit calculates the handover occurrence frequency based on the history data relating to the past occurrences of the handover on the traveling route.

7 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the calculating unit calculates the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover, based on at least one of: locations of road-branching places; locations of road-merging places; the number of road-branching places; and the number of road-merging places, on the traveling route.

8 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the calculating unit obtains weather information along the traveling route and calculates the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover, based on the weather information along the traveling route.

9 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the calculating unit obtains information of reception environment of radio waves received for vehicle positioning along the traveling route and calculates the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover, based on the reception environment of the radio waves.

10 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the calculating unit obtains information of a state of lane lines on a road surface along the traveling route and calculates the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover, based on the state of lane lines on the road surface along the traveling route.

11 . The vehicle control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the calculating unit obtains information of a direction of the travel of the vehicle along the traveling route and a position of the sun in the sky, and calculates the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover, based on the direction of the travel of the vehicle along the traveling route and the position of the sun.

12 . A vehicle control method performed by an onboard computer, the method comprising:
performing automated driving where at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle is performed automatically, and executing handover which switches an automated drive mode to a manual driving mode during a travel of the vehicle on a traveling route to a preset destination; calculating an occurrence frequency of the handover or an occurrence probability of the handover on the traveling route that the vehicle will travel; and presenting the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover that has been calculated, to an occupant of the vehicle.

13 . A vehicle control program executable by an onboard computer, comprising instructions to execute:
performing automated driving where at least one of speed control and steering control of a vehicle is performed automatically, and executing handover which switches an automated drive to a manual driving mode during a travel of the vehicle on a traveling route to a preset destination; calculating an occurrence frequency of the handover or an occurrence probability of the handover on the traveling route that the vehicle will travel; and presenting the occurrence frequency of the handover or the occurrence probability of the handover that has been calculated, to an occupant of the vehicle.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mimura Yoshitaka
• Okimoto Kohei
• Kumakiri Naotaka

Classifications

• B60W50/08

  Interaction between the driver and the control system · CPC title

• B60K31/00

  Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed, i.e. preventing speed from exceeding an arbitrarily established velocity or maintaining speed at a particular velocity, as selected by the vehicle operator · CPC title

• B60W30/143

  Speed control (B60W30/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60W2554/00

  Input parameters relating to objects · CPC title

• G01C21/3697

  Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level (G01C21/3679 takes precedence) · CPC title