Automatic driving control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9950740-B2
Application number	US-201615186606-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2016
Priority date	Jul 1, 2015
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

An automatic driving control device performs an automatic driving control for causing a vehicle to travel along a reference travel trajectory set in a lane in advance. The automatic driving control device reflects the steering by the driver during the automatic driving control in the travelling of the vehicle in a case where the steering by the driver is detected during the automatic driving control by the steering detection unit and when a position of the vehicle in the lane width direction is included in an allowance range, and alerts the driver to the travelling of the vehicle in a case where the steering by the driver is detected and in a case where it is determined that the position of the vehicle in the lane width direction is included in the second range.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An automatic driving control device configured to perform an automatic driving control for causing a vehicle to travel along a reference travel trajectory set in a lane in advance, the automatic driving control device comprising:
a steering detection unit configured to detect a steering by a driver of the vehicle during the automatic driving control;
a range setting unit configured to set an allowance range that includes the reference travel trajectory in the lane as a range in a lane width direction of the lane, and to set a first range that includes the reference travel trajectory in the allowance range and a second range at both the right and left sides of the first range;
an automatic driving control unit configured to execute the automatic driving control and to apply the steering by the driver during the automatic driving control in the travelling of the vehicle when the steering by the driver is detected by the steering detection unit and a position of the vehicle in the lane width direction is included in the allowance range;
a position determination unit configured to determine whether or not the position of the vehicle in the lane width direction is included in the second range when the steering by the driver is detected by the steering detection unit;
an alerting unit configured to alert the driver to the travelling of the vehicle when it is determined by the position determination unit that the position of the vehicle in the lane width direction is included in the second range; and
a vehicle speed detection unit configured to detect a vehicle speed of the vehicle,
wherein the range setting unit is configured to set the allowance range, the first range, and the second range based on the vehicle speed of the vehicle, and to set the allowance range, the first range, and the second range to be wider in the lane as the vehicle speed becomes lower.

2. The automatic driving control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a steering determination unit configured to determine whether or not an amount of steering by the driver detected by the steering detection unit decreases to an amount smaller than a steering amount threshold value from an amount equal to or greater than the steering amount threshold value,
wherein the position determination unit is configured to determine whether or not a position of the vehicle in the lane width direction is included in the first range, and
wherein, the automatic driving control unit is configured to execute the automatic driving control such that the position of the vehicle in the lane width direction is maintained when it is determined by the steering determination unit that the amount of steering by the driver decreases to the amount smaller than the steering amount threshold value from the amount equal to or greater than the steering amount threshold value and it is determined by the position determination unit that the position of the vehicle in the lane width direction is included in the first range.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sato Jun
• Matsunaga Masaki
• Kumai Yuichi

Classifications

• B60W60/0053

  from vehicle to occupant · CPC title

• G05D1/0061

  for transition from automatic pilot to manual pilot and vice versa · CPC title

• B60W30/12

  Lane keeping · CPC title

• B60W2710/0616

  Position of fuel or air injector · CPC title

• B60W2520/105

  Longitudinal acceleration · CPC title