Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and program

The vehicle control device addresses the inefficiencies of existing technologies by recognizing the surrounding situation and dynamically adjusting the search area to quickly and flexibly generate target vehicle trajectories, enhancing both speed and adaptability in vehicle control.

JP7650665B2Active Publication Date: 2025-03-25HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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Patent Information

Application Number
JP2021001410
Authority / Receiving Office
JP · JP
Patent Type
Patents
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2021-01-07
Publication Date
2025-03-25
Estimated Expiration
2041-01-07

AI Technical Summary

Technical Problem

Existing vehicle control technologies require significant time and computational resources to find optimal traveling tracks, and they do not adapt flexibly to changing driving situations such as cruising control or risk aversion control.

Method used

A vehicle control device that includes a recognition unit, a target track candidate generation unit, a decision unit, and a driving control unit. This device recognizes the surrounding situation, generates target track candidates within a set search area, determines if these candidates meet predetermined conditions, and adjusts the search area width based on the driving situation to ensure quick and flexible target trajectory generation.

Benefits of technology

The solution enables faster and more flexible generation of target vehicle trajectories, improving computational efficiency and adapting to varying driving risks and situations.

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Abstract

To generate a target trajectory of a vehicle more speedily and flexibly.SOLUTION: There is provided a vehicle control device that comprises: a recognition part which recognizes a circumferential state of a vehicle; a target trajectory candidate generation part which generates one or more target trajectory candidates as candidates for a target trajectory where the vehicle is to travel in future in a search region set on a side in a direction of traveling of the vehicle on the basis of, at least the circumferential state; a determination part which determines whether there is a target trajectory candidate meeting predetermined conditions among the one or more target trajectory candidates; and a driving control part which allows the vehicle to travel according to the target trajectory based upon a target trajectory candidate determined to meet the predetermined conditions when it is determined that there is the target trajectory candidate meeting the predetermined conditions, wherein the target trajectory candidate generation part which generates the one or more target trajectory candidates in a wider search region when it is determined that there is no target trajectory candidates meeting the predetermined conditions.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
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