Vehicle acceleration suppression device and vehicle acceleration suppression method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9493070-B2
Application number	US-201314646916-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2013
Priority date	Nov 27, 2012
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

Abstract

A total certainty factor indicating a total degree of certainty of the parking frame certainty degree and the parking frame entering certainty degree is calculated based on a parking frame certainty degree indicating the degree of certainty that a parking frame is present in a travel direction of a vehicle, and a parking frame entering certainty degree indicating the degree of certainty that the vehicle enters the parking frame. When the total certainty factor is low, acceleration of the vehicle controlled according to an operation amount of an accelerator pedal for instructing a driving force by operation of a driver is suppressed with a low suppression degree, as compared with a case where the total certainty factor is high. Further, the acceleration of the vehicle is suppressed at a low suppression degree according to the travel direction of the vehicle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle acceleration suppression device that suppresses acceleration of a vehicle depending on an operation amount of a driving force instruction element that instructs a driving force by operation of a driver to perform a suppression control of the driving force, the vehicle acceleration suppression device comprising:
an accelerator operation detection sensor configured to detect an opening degree of an accelerator pedal;
an acceleration controller configured to control acceleration of the vehicle depending on the opening degree detected by the accelerator operation detection sensor;
a peripheral environment recognizer configured to recognize a peripheral environment of the vehicle based on detection information of a peripheral environment recognition sensor provided in the vehicle;
a vehicle travel state detector configured to detect a travel state of the vehicle;
a vehicle travel direction detector configured to detect a travel direction of the vehicle;
a parking frame entering certainty degree calculation unit configured to set a parking frame entering certainty degree indicating a degree of certainty that the vehicle enters a parking frame based on the environment recognized by the peripheral environment recognizer and the travel state detected by the vehicle travel state detector; and
an acceleration suppression unit configured to suppress the acceleration controlled by the acceleration controller based on the parking frame entering certainty degree set by the parking frame entering certainty degree calculation unit and the travel direction detected by the travel direction detector,
wherein when the travel direction detected by the vehicle travel direction detector is forward, the acceleration suppression unit is configured to set a suppression degree of the acceleration of the vehicle to be lower than when the travel direction detected by the vehicle travel direction detector is backward.

2. The vehicle acceleration suppression device according to claim 1 , wherein the acceleration suppression unit delays an acceleration suppression control start timing which is a timing when the suppression of the acceleration controlled by the acceleration controller starts to decrease the suppression degree of the acceleration.

3. The vehicle acceleration suppression device according to claim 2 , wherein the acceleration suppression unit decreases an acceleration suppression control amount which is a control amount for suppressing the acceleration controlled by the acceleration controller to decrease the suppression degree of the acceleration.

4. The vehicle acceleration suppression device according to claim 1 , wherein the acceleration suppression unit decreases an acceleration suppression control amount which is a control amount for suppressing the acceleration controlled by the acceleration controller to decrease the suppression degree of the acceleration.

5. A vehicle acceleration suppression method for suppressing acceleration of a vehicle depending on an operation amount of a driving force instruction element that instructs a driving force by operation of a driver to perform a suppression control of the driving force, the vehicle acceleration suppression method comprising:
detecting an opening degree of an accelerator pedal, a travel state of the vehicle, and a travel direction of the vehicle;
recognizing a peripheral environment of the vehicle;
setting a parking frame entering certainty degree indicating a degree of certainty that the vehicle enters a parking frame based on the recognized environment and the detected travel state; and
when the travel direction detected by the detecting step is forward, setting a suppression degree of the acceleration of the vehicle to be lower than when the travel direction detected by the detecting step is backward.

6. A vehicle acceleration suppression device comprising:
an accelerator operation detection sensor configured to detect an opening degree of an accelerator pedal to be operated by a driver of a vehicle to instruct a driving force;
a travel controller configured to control acceleration of the vehicle depending on the opening degree of the accelerator pedal detected by the accelerator operation detection sensor;
a peripheral environment recognition sensor configured to capture a peripheral image of the vehicle;
a vehicle wheel speed sensor configured to detect a rotational speed of a wheel of the vehicle; and
a shift position sensor configured to detect a shift position of the vehicle;
wherein the travel controller is configured to set a parking frame entering certainty degree indicating a degree of certainty that the vehicle enters a parking frame based on the peripheral image captured by the peripheral environment recognition sensor and the rotational speed of the wheel detected by the vehicle wheel speed sensor,
wherein the travel controller is configured to suppress the acceleration of the vehicle based on the parking frame entering certainty degree and the a travel direction of the vehicle to be recognized by the shift position of the vehicle detected by the shift position sensor, and
wherein when the travel direction is forward, the travel controller is configured to set a suppression degree of the acceleration of the vehicle to be lower than when the travel direction is backward.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Fukata Osamu
• Hayakawa Yasuhisa
• Tanaka Daisuke
• Oiki Daisuke
• Morimoto Akira

Classifications

• G06K9/00812

  Physics · mapped topic

• B60W2540/18

  Steering angle · CPC title

• B60W2520/06

  Direction of travel · CPC title

• B60W30/06 Primary

  Automatic manoeuvring for parking · CPC title

• B60W50/12 Primary

  Limiting control by the driver depending on vehicle state, e.g. interlocking means for the control input for preventing unsafe operation · CPC title