IP Library Granted Patent US 10,106,161
Granted Patent B2
US 10,106,161 · App. 15/416,214 · Granted Oct 23, 2018

Vehicle travel control device

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Patent No.
US 10,106,161
App. No.
15/416,214
Granted
Oct 23, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle travel control device includes a preceding vehicle offset calculation unit and a control target point setting unit. The preceding vehicle offset calculation unit calculates a lateral offset amount of a center position of a preceding vehicle with respect to a center position of a travel lane, in a first state where a host vehicle recognizes the travel lane. The control target point setting unit sets the center position of the travel lane as a control target point of travel control to follow the travel lane, when the host vehicle is in the first state, and that sets a position shifted as much as the offset amount from the center position of the preceding vehicle as a control target point of travel control to follow the preceding vehicle, when the host vehicle shifts from the first state to a second state where the host vehicle does not recognize the travel lane.

Claims (11)

1. A vehicle travel control device that switches travel control between travel control for traveling to follow a travel lane of a host vehicle and travel control for traveling to follow a preceding vehicle by recognizing the travel lane and the preceding vehicle, the vehicle travel control device comprising a controller programmed to:

calculate a lateral offset amount of a center position of the preceding vehicle with respect to a center position of the travel lane, in a first state where the host vehicle recognizes the travel lane; and

set the center position of the travel lane as a control target point of the travel control to follow the travel lane, when the host vehicle is in the first state, and set a position shifted as much as the offset amount from the center position of the preceding vehicle as a control target point of the travel control to follow the preceding vehicle, when the host vehicle shifts from the first state to a second state where the host vehicle does not recognize the travel lane.

2. The vehicle travel control device according to claim 1 , wherein in a case the second state continues for a predetermined time or longer, the controller is further programmed to clear the offset amount, and set the control target point to the center position of the preceding vehicle.

3. The vehicle travel control device according to claim 2 , wherein when the host vehicle returns to the first after the control target point is set to the center position of the preceding vehicle in the second state, the controller is further programmed gradually to move the control target point to the center position of the travel lane.

4. The vehicle travel control device according to claim 2 , wherein in a case where the travel lane is intermittent at every fixed distance, the controller is further programmed to determine whether the fixed distance exceeds a distance of a lane-broken section of the travel lane, on a basis of a vehicle speed of the host vehicle, thereby determining whether the second state continues for a predetermined time or longer.

5. The vehicle travel control device according to claim 3 , wherein in a case where the travel lane is intermittent at every fixed distance, the controller is further programmed to determine whether the fixed distance exceeds a distance of a lane-broken section of the travel lane, on a basis of a vehicle speed of the host vehicle, thereby determining whether the second state continues for a predetermined time or longer.

6. A vehicle travel control device that switches travel control between travel control for traveling to follow a travel lane of a host vehicle and travel control for traveling to follow a preceding vehicle by recognizing the travel lane and the preceding vehicle, the vehicle travel control device comprising:

circuitry configured to

calculate a lateral offset amount of a center position of the preceding vehicle with respect to a center position of the travel lane, in a first state where the host vehicle recognizes the travel lane; and

set the center position of the travel lane as a control target point of the travel control to follow the travel lane, when the host vehicle is in the first state, and set a position shifted as much as the offset amount from the center position of the preceding vehicle as a control target point of the travel control to follow the preceding vehicle, when the host vehicle shifts from the first state to a second state where the host vehicle does not recognize the travel lane.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 12, 2017
From: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: SUBARU CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 042624/0886 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 26, 2017
From: OYAMA, HAJIME
To: FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 041092/0478 →