Automatic driving system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018348769-A1
Application number	US-201815989805-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 25, 2018
Priority date	Jun 2, 2017
Publication date	Dec 6, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

An automatic driving system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to create a traveling plan including a control target value of automatic driving control of a vehicle based on a position of the vehicle of a map, a vehicle state, and an external environment, to calculate an abnormality value, to determine, based on the abnormality value, whether the vehicle is an a normal state, an abnormal state, or an intermediate state, and to create an abnormal traveling plan as the traveling plan when it has been determined that the vehicle is in the abnormal state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An automatic driving system comprising:
an electronic control unit configured to recognize a position of a vehicle on a map; recognize a vehicle state of the vehicle; recognize an external environment of the vehicle; create a traveling plan including a control target value of automatic driving control of the vehicle based on the position of the vehicle on the map, the vehicle state, and the external environment; execute the automatic driving control by transmitting, based on the control target value of the traveling plan, a command value to an actuator of the vehicle; calculate, during execution of the automatic driving control, an abnormality value based on the command value and the vehicle state corresponding to the command value; and determine, based on the abnormality value, whether the vehicle is an a normal state, an abnormal state, or an intermediate state, the intermediate state being a state between the normal state and the abnormal state, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to
create a normal traveling plan as the traveling plan when it has been determined that the vehicle is in the normal state,
create an abnormal traveling plan as the traveling plan when it has been determined that the vehicle is in the abnormal state, and
create a previously created traveling plan as the traveling plan, the previously created traveling plan being the normal traveling plan or the abnormal traveling plan, when it has been determined that the vehicle is in the intermediate state, wherein
in the abnormal traveling plan, at least one of the control target value, a maximum allowable value of the control target value, and a maximum allowable value of a temporal variation of the control target value is less than that in the normal traveling plan.

2 . The automatic driving system according to claim 1 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to create the abnormal traveling plan such that at least one of the control target value, the maximum allowable value of the control target value, and the maximum allowable value of the temporal variation of the control target value varies according to the abnormality value when it has been determined that the vehicle is in the abnormal state.

3 . The automatic driving system according to claim 1 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to
calculate a stabilization target value based on the vehicle state,
calculate a composite target value of the control target value and the stabilization target value using a composite proportion corresponding to the abnormality value, and
calculate the command value, based on the composite target value, the command value being transmitted to the actuator of the vehicle.

4 . The automatic driving system according to claim 1 , wherein
the abnormal traveling plan is a traveling plan in which at least one of a speed, a speed variation, a steering angle, and a steering angle variation is less than that of the normal traveling plan.

5 . The automatic driving system according to claim 2 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to create the abnormal traveling plan as the traveling plan such that the maximum allowable value of the control target value in the abnormal traveling plan decreases as the abnormality value increases.

6 . The automatic driving system according to claim 1 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to calculate the abnormality value based on an absolute value of a difference between the command value and the vehicle state corresponding to the command value.

7 . The automatic driving system according to claim 6 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to
determine that the vehicle is in the normal state when the abnormality value is less than a predetermined first threshold value,
determine that the vehicle is in the intermediate state when the abnormality value is equal to or greater than the predetermined first threshold value and less than a predetermined second threshold value, and
determine that the vehicle is in the abnormal state when the abnormality value is equal to or greater than the predetermined second threshold value,
the predetermined second threshold value being greater than the predetermined first threshold value.

8 . The automatic driving system according to claim 3 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to
calculate the command value based on the composite target value when it has been determined that the vehicle is in the abnormal state, and
calculate the command value based on the control target value when it has been determined that the vehicle is in the normal state or the intermediate state.

9 . The automatic driving system according to claim 3 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to calculate the stabilization target value, the stabilization target value being a target value for stabilizing behavior of the vehicle.

10 . The automatic driving system according to claim 9 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to calculate the composite target value such that an influence of the stabilization target value on the command value increases as the abnormality value increases.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sato Kunihito
• Kamata Nobuhide
• Okumura Bunyo

Classifications

• B60W2556/50

  of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data · CPC title

• B60W2520/10

  Longitudinal speed · CPC title

• B60W2710/207

  Steering angle of wheels · CPC title

• B60W30/095

  Predicting travel path or likelihood of collision · CPC title

• B60W2520/105

  Longitudinal acceleration · CPC title