Vehicle movement control system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9598077-B2
Application number	US-201415028296-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 3, 2014
Priority date	Oct 10, 2013
Publication date	Mar 21, 2017
Grant date	Mar 21, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a vehicle movement control system which does not cause a discomfort feeling at a normal time and securely assists a driver at the time of emergency avoidance steering. The vehicle movement control system includes: a risk potential estimation unit which estimates a risk potential of a vehicle based on input environmental information and vehicle information; a vehicle longitudinal movement control unit which generates a longitudinal movement control command of the vehicle based on a lateral jerk of the vehicle and a predetermined gain; a vehicle yawing movement control unit which generates a yawing movement control command of the vehicle based on the lateral jerk of the vehicle and the predetermined gain; and a ratio adjustment unit which adjusts a ratio between the longitudinal movement control command of the vehicle and the yawing movement control command of the vehicle, wherein the ratio adjustment unit adjusts the ratio based on the risk potential estimated by the risk potential estimation unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle movement control system, comprising:
a risk potential estimation unit which estimates a risk potential of a vehicle based on input environmental information and vehicle information;
a vehicle longitudinal movement control unit which generates a longitudinal movement control command of the vehicle based on a lateral jerk of the vehicle and a predetermined gain;
a vehicle yawing movement control unit which generates a yawing movement control command of the vehicle based on the lateral jerk of the vehicle and the predetermined gain; and
a ratio adjustment unit which adjusts a ratio between the longitudinal movement control command of the vehicle and the yawing movement control command of the vehicle,
wherein the ratio adjustment unit adjusts the ratio based on the risk potential estimated by the risk potential estimation unit.

2. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a case where the risk potential is detected by the risk potential estimation unit, the ratio adjustment unit adjusts the ratio of the longitudinal movement control command to be larger than the ratio of the yawing movement control command compared to a case where the risk potential is not detected.

3. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a case where the risk potential is detected by the risk potential estimation unit, the ratio adjustment unit adjusts the longitudinal movement control command to be large and the yawing movement control command to be small compared to a case where the risk potential is not detected.

4. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vehicle longitudinal movement control unit calculates a longitudinal acceleration command value of the vehicle based on the lateral jerk of the vehicle and a predetermined first gain, and outputs the longitudinal acceleration command value,
wherein the vehicle yawing movement control unit calculates a yaw moment command value of the vehicle based on the lateral jerk of the vehicle and a predetermined second gain, and
wherein the ratio adjustment unit adjusts a ratio of deceleration to yaw moment based on the risk potential estimated by the risk potential estimation unit.

5. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 4 ,
wherein the ratio adjustment unit calculates the ratio of deceleration to yaw moment based on the risk potential estimated by the risk potential estimation unit, adjusts a value obtained by multiplying the ratio to the longitudinal acceleration command value as a new longitudinal acceleration command value, and adjusts a value obtained by multiplying the ratio subjected from 1 to the yaw moment command value as a yaw moment command value.

6. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 5 ,
wherein, in a case where the risk potential estimated by the risk potential estimation unit is higher than a predetermined value, the ratio adjustment unit adjusts the ratio (RGM) of deceleration to yaw moment to be large compared to a case where the risk potential is lower than the value.

7. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 2 ,
wherein, in a case where the risk potential is not detected, the ratio adjustment unit adjusts the ratio of deceleration to yaw moment to be zero.

8. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 4 ,
wherein, in a case where the risk potential estimated by the risk potential estimation unit is higher than a predetermined value, the ratio adjustment unit adjusts the first gain or/and the second gain to be large compared to a case where the risk potential is lower than the value.

9. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 8 ,
wherein, in a case where the risk potential estimated by the risk potential estimation unit is zero, the ratio adjustment unit adjusts the first gain or/and the second gain to be zero.

10. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the environmental information is environmental information of a front side of a subject vehicle obtained from a camera or a radar, and
wherein the vehicle information is at least one of a vehicle speed, a steering angle, an acceleration, a yaw rate, a pedal operation speed, and a brake operation speed.

11. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the risk potential estimation unit estimates a quantitatively evaluated value of the risk potential of the vehicle.

12. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the risk potential of the vehicle is quantitatively evaluated based on time-to-collision, a steering angular speed, a difference between a lateral movement of the vehicle of which the model is estimated and a measured actual movement.

13. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the ratio adjustment unit outputs the ratio of deceleration to yaw moment corresponding to the estimated risk potential using a map storing the ratio of deceleration to yaw moment according to the risk potential stored in advance.

14. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 8 ,
wherein the ratio adjustment unit outputs the gain corresponding to the estimated risk potential using a map storing the value of the gain according to the risk potential stored in advance.

15. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vehicle longitudinal movement control unit generates the longitudinal movement control command of the vehicle such that the vehicle is decelerated at the time when an absolute value of a lateral acceleration of the vehicle is increased, and the vehicle is accelerated at the time when the absolute value of the lateral acceleration of the vehicle is decreased.

16. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vehicle longitudinal movement control unit generates the longitudinal movement control command of the vehicle such that the vehicle is decelerated at the time when an absolute value of a steering angle of the vehicle is increased, and the vehicle is accelerated at the time when the absolute value of the steering angle of the vehicle is decreased.

17. The vehicle movement control system according to claim 4 ,
wherein the longitudinal acceleration command value Gxc is generated as follows:

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Assignees

• Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Yamakado Makoto
• Nagatsuka Keiichiro
• Sasaki Mitsuhide
• Ueyama Mikio

Classifications

• B60W2510/20

  Steering systems · CPC title

• B60W2520/00

  Input parameters relating to overall vehicle dynamics · CPC title

• B60T8/17558

  specially adapted for collision avoidance or collision mitigation (road vehicle drive control systems for collision avoidance otherwise than by controlling a particular sub-unit B60W30/09) · CPC title

• B60T2230/04

  Jerk, soft-stop; Anti-jerk, reduction of pitch or nose-dive when braking · CPC title

• B60Y2300/82

  Torque vectoring · CPC title