Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100021011 | PERIMETER MONITOR - When vehicle group constituent vehicles V | 01-28-2010 |
20110106391 | FOLLOW-UP RUN CONTROL DEVICE - A follow-up run control device controlling a running state of a vehicle in a state where peripheral vehicles running before or behind the vehicle exist includes: deviation acquiring means for acquiring information regarding a deviation between a relative positional relation and a target relative positional relation of the vehicle and the peripheral vehicles with respect to preceding vehicles running just before; and follow-up control amount calculating means for calculating a follow-up control amount of the vehicle to control the running state of the vehicle on the basis of the information regarding the deviations of a plurality of vehicles acquired by the deviation acquiring means. | 05-05-2011 |
20110270513 | ROW RUNNING CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE - A row running control system is a system that controls the running state of each vehicle by optimum control (LQ control) so that five vehicles, for example, run in a row. Acceleration instruction values for the succeeding four vehicles among the five vehicles are determined as values minimizing predetermined evaluation functions, and the evaluation functions are calculated based on the errors of the distances between the respective vehicles, relative speeds between the respective vehicles and the acceleration instruction values for the respective vehicles. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270514 | ROW-RUNNING CONTROL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE - A vehicle platooning control system is a vehicle platooning control system that controls a relative relationship between vehicles so that a plurality of vehicles runs in a row. In this system, each target value of a relative relationship between vehicles continuous in the longitudinal direction of a row is determined on the basis of a relative relationship error propagation ratio which is a ratio of an error of the relative relationship propagated to the rear vehicles running in the row. | 11-03-2011 |
20110288754 | VEHICLE GROUP CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE - The invention provides a vehicle group control method that controls the traveling of a vehicle group including a plurality of vehicles. The vehicle group control method includes: a process of controlling vehicles in each of a plurality of small vehicle groups which are divided from the vehicle group and controlling the relative relationship between the vehicles in each small vehicle group using communication between the vehicles in the same small vehicle group; and a small vehicle group control process of controlling the relative relationship between the small vehicle groups using communication between representative vehicles in the small vehicle groups. | 11-24-2011 |
20110301779 | VEHICLE RELATIVE POSITION ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND VEHICLE RELATIVE POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD - A vehicle relative position estimation apparatus includes: a motional state acquiring unit that acquires vehicle control information for controlling the motional state of a vehicle or the motional state of the vehicle detected by an in-vehicle apparatus of the vehicle, and vehicle control information for controlling the motional state of another vehicle or the motional state of another vehicle detected by an in-vehicle apparatus of another vehicle; a relative position acquiring unit that acquires the relative position detected by the in-vehicle apparatus provided in the vehicle or another vehicle; an estimation unit that receives the vehicle control information or the motional state of the vehicle, and the vehicle control information or the motional state of another vehicle acquired by the motional state acquiring unit and estimates the relative position with a Kalman filter using the relative position acquired by the relative position acquiring unit as the amount of observation. | 12-08-2011 |
20120072089 | VEHICLE GROUP CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE - Disclosed is a vehicle group control method which controls traveling of a vehicle group having n vehicles (where n=2, 3, . . . ). In extending the inter-vehicle distance between a (j−1)th vehicle from the front and a j-th vehicle (where j=2, 3, . . . , n) within the vehicle group, the relative speed of the j-th vehicle with respect to the (j−1)th vehicle during the changing of the inter-vehicle distance is changed as indicated by a graph with a minimum value on a time axis. | 03-22-2012 |
20130030687 | ON-VEHICLE APPARATUS, PRECEDING VEHICLE POSITION DETERMINING APPARATUS, AND PRECEDING VEHICLE POSITION DETERMINING METHOD - An ECU acquires relative position information related to a relative position between a host vehicle and another vehicle (A, B, C) traveling ahead of the host vehicle, and error information related to an error in the relative position, detects the position of a preceding vehicle (A) traveling in front of the host vehicle, identifies the position of the preceding vehicle (A) by comparing the relative position based on the acquired relative position information with the detected position, and if relative position information oh a plurality of other vehicles (A, B, C) is acquired, identifies the position of the preceding vehicle (A) by comparing the relative position based on the acquired relative position information with the detected position, by using a threshold that is varied in accordance with the error information. | 01-31-2013 |
20130060443 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS, TARGET LEAD-VEHICLE DESIGNATING APPARATUS, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - In a target lead-vehicle designating apparatus, a vehicle tracking ECU compares surrounding vehicle information acquired through an inter-vehicle communication unit and vehicle information on preceding vehicles detected by a radar device to designate a target lead-vehicle. The communicated speed of the other vehicles and the detected speed of the preceding vehicles are compared in terms of velocity component in the travel direction of a host vehicle to identify the target lead-vehicle. Accordingly, the target lead-vehicle may be accurately identified even if the target lead-vehicle is close to other vehicles. | 03-07-2013 |
20130096773 | VEHICLE DRIVING-SUPPORT APPARATUS - In a vehicle travel support device | 04-18-2013 |
20130116909 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A vehicle control system includes a controller that is provided in a host vehicle and that controls an acceleration of the host vehicle with the smallest acceleration, from among a first required acceleration that is required based on information related to a running state of a vehicle on a road and a second required acceleration that is required based on a relative relationship between the host vehicle and at least one of a leading vehicle traveling right in front of the host vehicle and an obstacle ahead of the host vehicle, as a target acceleration. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124012 | TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM, VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM, TRAFFIC REGULATION SYSTEM, AND TRAFFIC CONTROL METHOD - A traffic control system sets a target value related to a travel state based on a correlation between a vehicle travel speed and a traffic volume, and controls multiple vehicles (CS) on a road in accordance with the target value as a common target value. The target value can be set based on a predicted traffic volume at a region ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130131949 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE - In control over a vehicle, inter-vehicle communication information of a preceding vehicle that runs ahead of the vehicle is acquired, follow-up running control for causing the vehicle to follow the preceding vehicle is executed on the basis of the inter-vehicle communication information, and, during the follow-up running control, a parameter used in the follow-up running control is determined on the basis of a condition in which the inter-vehicle communication information is acquired. | 05-23-2013 |
20130144465 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE - A vehicle control device capable of more appropriately carrying out travel control of an own vehicle carried out while acquiring travel information of a leading vehicle by an inter-vehicle communication is provided. Provided is a vehicle control device for carrying out vehicle control of acquiring inter-vehicle communication information of a leading vehicle travelling in front of an own vehicle, and controlling a travel state of the own vehicle based on the acquired inter-vehicle communication information of the leading vehicle, wherein control of the inter-vehicle communication is changed according to a parameter at the time of the vehicle control. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144502 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - Vehicle control includes: acquiring running information of a preceding vehicle that runs ahead of a host vehicle; controlling a running state of the host vehicle on the basis of the acquired running information; acquiring deceleration jerk information of the preceding vehicle; and changing a deceleration start timing, at which the host vehicle is decelerated in response to deceleration of the preceding vehicle, on the basis of the deceleration jerk information of the preceding vehicle. Alternatively, vehicle control includes: acquiring deceleration jerk information of a preceding vehicle that runs ahead of a host vehicle; and changing an inter-vehicle time or inter-vehicle distance between the preceding vehicle and the host vehicle on the basis of the deceleration jerk information of the preceding vehicle. | 06-06-2013 |
20130297196 | VEHICULAR DRIVING ASSIST APPARATUS, METHOD, AND VEHICLE - A driving assist apparatus for a vehicle includes an obtaining portion that obtains a speed of each of a plurality of vehicles, and a target speed calculating portion that calculates a target speed based on a plurality of speeds obtained by the obtaining portion and respective degrees of influence of the plurality of speeds on the target speed. The target speed calculation portion sets the degree of influence of a lower speed to be larger than the degree of influence of a higher speed. | 11-07-2013 |
20140297063 | VEHICLE SPECIFYING APPARATUS - A vehicle specifying apparatus ( | 10-02-2014 |