Perimeter monitor

Abstract

The invention relates to a perimeter monitor. When vehicle group constituting vehicles (V1 to V4) form a vehicle group, each vehicle perimeter monitoring area allocation logic section (40a) controls so as to change monitoring areas (s) of various sensors (23) of each of the vehicles compared to those during the sole running. With this, even if the monitoring around the vehicle group cannot be fully performed in the monitoring areas (s) during the sole running, the ability of the monitoring around the vehicle group can be improved by changing the monitoring areas (s) of the various sensors (23) of each of the vehicles during the running of the vehicle group.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a peripheral monitoring device, and more particularly to a peripheral monitoring device that controls each of peripheral monitoring units of a plurality of vehicles equipped with peripheral monitoring units for monitoring the surroundings. Background technique [0002] Conventionally, there has been proposed a technique in which vehicles equipped with a surrounding monitoring device that monitors the surroundings form a platoon and travel. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a platoon driving control device as follows: when the platoon is running, the side vehicle detection data provided by each car is sent to the leading vehicle, and the objects traveling in the adjacent lanes within the platoon length are constantly monitored. Vehicles, when it is detected that there is an obstacle in front of the driving road and the collision cannot be avoided by taking a braking operation, the leading vehicle performs avoidanc...

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[0004] However, in the above-mentioned technology, although a plurality of vehicles form a convoy to travel, there is a problem that the ability to monitor the surroundings is lower than when each vehicle travels alone.

For example, among the leading vehicles in the convoy, the rear recognition sensors such as cameras and radars can only identify the following vehicles and do not perform any special functions, and are in an idle state; while among the following vehicles in the convoy, because the white line is blocked by the leading vehicle, the white line The recognition camera is also in a state where it does not function well

In addition, peripheral recognition sensors such as radars of following vehicles can only recognize the rear of the leading vehicle, and cannot fully monitor the surroundings of the convoy.

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