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Granted Patent B2
US 12,479,468 · App. 18/506,832 · Granted Nov 25, 2025

Vehicle control apparatus

Inventors: Takahiro Yokota (Susono, JP); Atsushi Kodama (Shizuoka, JP); Hiroki Fukuda (Shizuoka, JP); Taichi Kawanai (Susono, JP); Daichi Hotta (Tokyo, JP); Nobuhide Kamata (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60W60/001B60W10/18B60W30/02B60W2552/10B60W2552/15B60W2556/40B60W2710/18B60W2720/10
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Patent No.
US 12,479,468
App. No.
18/506,832
Granted
Nov 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle control apparatus for performing autonomous driving of a host vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus includes an operating section information acquisition unit configured to acquire operating section information that is information of an operating section in which vehicle stability control by brake control has been operated in a vehicle in autonomous driving in the past; an operation plan generation unit configured to generate an operation plan of autonomous driving of the host vehicle based on a preset target route and map information; and a vehicle controller configured to perform autonomous driving along the operation plan, wherein the operation plan generation unit generates the operation plan so that the host vehicle does not stop in the operating section.

Claims (26)

1 . A vehicle control apparatus for performing autonomous driving of a host vehicle, the vehicle control apparatus comprising:

at least one electronic control unit, which includes a processor and a memory that stores a program to be executed by the processor, configured to:

acquire operating section information which is information of an operating section in which vehicle stability control by brake control is operated in a vehicle during autonomous driving in the past; and

generate an operation plan of autonomous driving of the host vehicle based on a preset target route, map information, and the operating section information;

perform the autonomous driving according to the operation plan; and

wherein the at least one electronic control unit is configured to:

generate the operation plan so that the host vehicle does not stop in the operating section on the target route,

generate the operation plan in which the host vehicle passes through the operating section without acceleration or deceleration in the operating section due to acceleration until the host vehicle enters the operating section when the operating section is an uphill slope, and

generate the operation plan in which the host vehicle passes through the operating section without acceleration or deceleration in the operating section when the operating section is a downhill slope.

2 . The vehicle control apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one electronic control unit is further configured to generate the operation plan such that the host vehicle passes through the operating section at a constant speed.

3 . The vehicle control apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the at least one electronic control unit is further configured to

stop the host vehicle at a position offset to the left or right in a travelling lane with respect to a center of the travelling lane when the host vehicle is stopped within the operating section based on an external environment detected by an external sensor of the host vehicle during autonomous driving.

4 . The vehicle control apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one electronic control unit is further configured to stop the host vehicle at a position offset to the left or right in a travelling lane with respect to a center of the travelling lane when the vehicle is stopped within the operating section based on an external environment detected by an external sensor of the host vehicle during autonomous driving.

5 . The vehicle control apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the operating section information is associated with weather information when the vehicle stability control is activated, and wherein the at least one electronic control unit is further configured to narrow down the operating section information according to current weather information and uses the narrowed down operating section information to generate the operation plan.

6 . The vehicle control apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the operating section information is associated with weather information when the vehicle stability control is activated, and wherein the at least one electronic control unit narrows down the operating section information according to current weather information and uses the narrowed down operating section information to generate the operation plan.

7 . A vehicle control apparatus according for performing autonomous driving of a host vehicle, the vehicle control apparatus comprising:

at least one electronic control unit, which includes a processor and a memory that stores a program to be executed by the processor, configured to:

acquire operating section information which is information of an operating section in which vehicle stability control by brake control is operated in a vehicle during autonomous driving in the past; and

generate an operation plan of autonomous driving of the host vehicle based on a preset target route, map information, and the operating section information; and

perform the autonomous driving according to the operation plan,

wherein the at least one electronic control unit is further configured to stop the host vehicle at a position offset to the left or right in a travelling lane with respect to a center of the travelling lane when the host vehicle is stopped within the operating section based on an external environment detected by an external sensor of the host vehicle during autonomous driving.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 16, 2023
From: YOKOTA, TAKAHIRO; KODAMA, ATSUSHI; FUKUDA, HIROKI; KAWANAI, TAICHI; HOTTA, DAICHI; KAMATA, NOBUHIDE
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-182460 · Nov 15, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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