Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, medium, and information processing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021003411-A1
Application number	US-201816977104-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 7, 2018
Priority date	Mar 7, 2018
Publication date	Jan 7, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; a driving controller configured to execute automated driving in which acceleration or deceleration and steering of the vehicle are controlled according to the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer; a first acquirer configured to acquire a first arrival time for the vehicle to arrive at a destination of the vehicle or a parking lot subsidiary to the destination from a predetermined position by the automated driving; a second acquirer configured to acquire a second arrival time for an occupant of the vehicle to arrive at the destination from the predetermined position in an alternative way in place of movement of the vehicle; an outputter configured to output information; and a proposer configured to cause the outputter to output proposal information regarding a proposal to head for the destination in the alternative way to the occupant according to comparison between the first arrival time acquired by the first acquirer and the second arrival time acquired by the second acquirer.

First claim

1 .- 17 . (canceled)

18 . A vehicle control system comprising:
a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; a driving controller configured to execute automated driving in which acceleration or deceleration and steering of the vehicle are controlled according to the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer; a first acquirer configured to acquire a first arrival time for the vehicle to arrive at a destination of the vehicle or a parking lot subsidiary to the destination from a predetermined position by the automated driving; a second acquirer configured to acquire a second arrival time for an occupant of the vehicle to arrive at the destination from the predetermined position in an alternative way in place of movement of the vehicle; an outputter configured to output information; and a proposer configured to cause the outputter to output proposal information regarding a proposal to head for the destination in the alternative way to the occupant according to comparison between the first arrival time acquired by the first acquirer and the second arrival time acquired by the second acquirer, wherein the proposer is configured to cause the outputter to output the proposal information to the occupant according to the comparison between the first arrival time and the second arrival time and cause the vehicle to arrive at the destination or the parking lot by the automated driving after the occupant heads for the destination by walking when the occupant heads for the destination by walking according to the proposal information.

19 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the proposer is configured to cause the outputter to output the proposal information when the second arrival time acquired by the second acquirer is a predetermined time or more shorter than the first arrival time acquired by the first acquirer.

20 . The vehicle control system according to claim 19 , wherein the proposer is configured to acquire weather information indicating weather of an alternative route along which the occupant heads for the destination in the alternative way and changes the predetermined time according to the acquired weather information.

21 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the proposer is configured to acquire information indicating that a route along which the vehicle passes to head for the destination or the parking lot is congested and cause the outputter to output the proposal information according to the comparison between the first arrival time and the second arrival time when the route is determined to be congested according to the acquired information.

22 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the proposer is configured to acquire weather information indicating weather of an alternative route along which the occupant heads for the destination in the alternative way and determine whether the outputter outputs the proposal information according to the acquired weather information.

23 . The vehicle control system according to claim 22 , wherein, according to the acquired weather information, the proposer is configured to cause the outputter to output the proposal information when the weather of the alternative route is determined to be clear or cloudy.

24 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the proposer is configured to acquire scenery information indicating scenery of the alternative route along which the occupant heads for the destination in the alternative way and cause the outputter to not output the proposal information when the scenery is determined not to be fine according to the acquired scenery information in a case in which the occupant moves in the alternative way along the alternative route.

25 . The vehicle control system according to claim 24 , wherein the proposer is configured to cause the outputter to output the proposal information when the scenery is determined to be fine according to the acquired scenery information in a case in which the occupant moves in the alternative way along the alternative route.

26 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the proposer is configured to acquire sidewalk information indicating whether there is a sidewalk along the alternative route along which the occupant heads for the destination in the alternative way and cause the outputter to output the proposal information when there is determined to be a sidewalk along the alternative route according to the acquired sidewalk information.

27 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the proposer is configured to acquire fatigue information indicating an estimation result of fatigue of the occupant when the occupant is assumed to move to the destination or the parking lot in the alternative way and cause the outputter to output the proposal information when the acquired fatigue information is determined to be equal to or less than a set value.

28 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the proposer is configured to cause the outputter to output the proposal information including both the first arrival time and the second arrival time.

29 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the proposer is configured to cause the outputter to output at least one of weather information indicating weather of the alternative route along which the occupant heads for the destination in the alternative way, scenery information indicating scenery of the alternative route, sidewalk information indicating whether there is a sidewalk along the alternative route, and fatigue information indicating fatigue of the occupant when the occupant is assumed to move to the destination or the parking lot in the alternative way in addition to the second arrival time.

30 . The vehicle control system according to claim 18 , wherein the alternative way is at least one way among walking, a bicycle, and a vehicle managed by a facility manager of the destination.

31 . A vehicle control method causing a computer to perform:
executing automated driving in which acceleration or deceleration and steering of a vehicle are controlled according to a surrounding situation recognized by a recognizer recognizing a surrounding situation of the vehicle; acquiring a first arrival time for the vehicle to arrive at a destination of the vehicle or a parking lot subsidiary to the destination from a predetermined position by the automated driving; acquiring a second arrival time for an occupant of the vehicle to arrive at the destination from the predetermined position in an alternative way in place of movement of the vehicle; and causing an outputter outputting information to output proposal information regarding a proposal to head for the destination in the alternative way to the occupant according to comparison between the first arrival time acquired by the first acquirer and the second arrival time, wherein the vehicle is caused to arrive at the destination or the parking lot by the automated driving after the occupant heads for the destination by walking when the occupant heads for the destination by walking according to the proposal information.

32 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that is configured to store a computer program to be executed by a computer to perform at least:
execute automated driving in which acceleration or deceleration and steering of a vehicle are controlled according to a surrounding situation recognized by a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surrounding situation of the vehicle; acquire a f

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ueda Yugo
• Umeda Dan

Classifications

• G01C21/3492 Primary

  employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical (traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968) · CPC title

• G01C21/3691

  Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions (arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09) · CPC title

• G01C21/3461

  Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types or segments such as motorways, toll roads or ferries · CPC title

• G01C21/3423 Primary

  Multimodal routing · CPC title

• B60W30/06

  Automatic manoeuvring for parking · CPC title