IP Library Granted Patent US 12662118
Granted Patent B2
US 12662118 · App. 18/964,152 · Granted Jun 23, 2026

Control method and control apparatus for vehicle traveling, and vehicle

Inventor: Shujun Wei (Suzhou, CN)
Assignee: Momenta (Suzhou) Technology Co., Ltd.
B60W30/12B60W30/18163B60W2552/10B60W2554/4041B60W2554/802
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Patent No.
US 12662118
App. No.
18/964,152
Granted
Jun 23, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A control method and a control apparatus for vehicle travelling, and a vehicle. The method includes: recognizing whether an adjacent front vehicle exists in an adjacent lane when a spacing distance between a target vehicle and a front vehicle in a same lane is less than or equal to a blockage distance; obtaining a farthest forward-sensing distance recognized by the target vehicle from the adjacent lane when it is recognized that that an adjacent front vehicle does not exist in the adjacent lane; and controlling the target vehicle to execute a lane change suppression strategy when the farthest forward-sensing distance is less than an observation distance, the lane change suppression strategy representing a strategy that prevents the target vehicle from making a lane change.

Claims (30)

1 . A control method for vehicle travelling, comprising:

recognizing whether an adjacent front vehicle exists in an adjacent lane when a spacing distance between a target vehicle and a front vehicle in a same lane is less than or equal to a blockage distance;

obtaining a farthest forward-sensing distance recognized by the target vehicle from the adjacent lane when it is recognized that an adjacent front vehicle does not exists in the adjacent lane; and

controlling the target vehicle to execute a lane change suppression strategy when the farthest forward-sensing distance is less than an observation distance, the lane change suppression strategy representing a strategy that prevents the target vehicle from making a lane change.

2 . The control method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining a first traveling velocity of the adjacent front vehicle when it is recognized that an adjacent front vehicle exists in the adjacent lane;

determining lane traffic efficiency of the adjacent lane based on the first traveling velocity; and

controlling the target vehicle to make a lane change to the adjacent lane when the lane traffic efficiency is greater than lane change traffic efficiency.

3 . The control method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

obtaining vehicle traffic efficiency of the adjacent lane when the farthest forward-sensing distance is greater than or equal to the observation distance; and

controlling the target vehicle to make the lane change to a target lane when the lane traffic efficiency is greater than lane change traffic efficiency.

4 . The control method according to claim 1 , wherein prior to the recognizing whether an adjacent front vehicle exists in an adjacent lane, the control method further comprises:

obtaining a second traveling velocity of the front vehicle; and

obtaining the spacing distance between the target vehicle and the front vehicle when the second traveling velocity is less than a preset lane velocity limit.

5 . The control method according to claim 1 , wherein prior to the recognizing whether an adjacent front vehicle exists in an adjacent lane, the control method further comprises:

configuring an observation distance as a preset observation distance;

obtaining lane width information and vehicle width information of the front vehicle; and

determining a blockage distance in real time based on the lane width information, the vehicle width information, and the preset observation distance.

6 . The control method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

configuring a blockage distance as a preset blockage distance;

obtaining lane width information and vehicle width information of the front vehicle; and

determining the observation distance in real time based on the lane width information, the vehicle width information, and the preset blockage distance.

7 . The control method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling the target vehicle to execute a lane change suppression strategy comprises:

starting a cooling timer in the lane change suppression strategy; and

continuing the control method according to claim 1 when a timing duration of the cooling timer reaches a preset cooling duration.

8 . A control apparatus for vehicle travelling, comprising:

a recognition module configured to recognize whether an adjacent front vehicle exists in an adjacent lane when a spacing distance between a target vehicle and a front vehicle in a same lane is less than or equal to a blockage distance;

an obtaining module configured to obtain a farthest forward-sensing distance recognized by the target vehicle from the adjacent lane when it is recognized that an adjacent front vehicle does not exist in the adjacent lane; and

a control module configured to control the target vehicle to execute a lane change suppression strategy when the farthest forward-sensing distance is less than an observation distance, the lane change suppression strategy representing a strategy that prevents the target vehicle from making a lane change.

9 . A readable storage medium, storing a program or an instruction, wherein, when the program or instruction is executed by a processor, steps in the control method according to claim 1 are implemented.