Vehicle control device
The vehicle control device uses a camera to detect pedestrians and control deceleration to ensure pedestrians understand the vehicle is yielding, addressing the issue of increased crossing time in autonomous vehicles by allowing safe and efficient pedestrian crossing.
JP2025183638APending Publication Date: 2025-12-17MAZDA MOTOR CORP
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Patent Information
- Application Number
- JP2024091344
- Authority / Receiving Office
- JP · JP
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-06-05
- Publication Date
- 2025-12-17
AI Technical Summary
Technical Problem
Pedestrians may not recognize when an autonomously driven vehicle is slowing down to allow them to cross a crosswalk, leading to increased time for pedestrians to cross and for the vehicle to pass, compared to manual driving.
Method used
A vehicle control device that uses a camera to detect pedestrians and control the vehicle's driving force and braking to apply a yielding deceleration, allowing pedestrians to recognize the vehicle's intention to yield, by predicting a safety confirmation timing and setting deceleration to ensure the pedestrian can cross safely.
Benefits of technology
The device enables pedestrians to easily recognize the vehicle's intention to yield, reducing the time required for both pedestrian crossing and vehicle passage through the crosswalk.
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Abstract
To control a vehicle such that a pedestrian can easily recognize that the vehicle has detected the presence of the pedestrian attempting to cross a road and decelerates, thereby preventing an increase in time required for the pedestrian to cross the road and for the vehicle to pass a crossing position.SOLUTION: A vehicle control device includes a camera (21) that images a front area of a vehicle (1), and a controller (10) configured to be capable of controlling a driving force source (31) and / or a brake (32) of the vehicle. The controller determines whether or not a pedestrian has an intention to cross a road at a crossing position on the basis of a position and a speed of the pedestrian, predicts a safety confirmation timing at which the pedestrian performs safety confirmation before crossing the road on the basis of the crossing position and the position and speed of the pedestrian when it is determined that the pedestrian has the intention to cross the road, and controls the driving force source and / or the brake so as to cause the vehicle to generate a yielding deceleration set such that the pedestrian can recognize that the vehicle prioritizes the pedestrian's crossing at the safety confirmation timing.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
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