Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method
AssigneesDenso Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMototsugu Sawada, Motonari Ohbayashi, Akihiro Kida, Hironobu Ishijima
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus detects an object in a travel direction of a vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus restrains a drive force of the vehicle when an object is detected. The vehicle control apparatus acquires a jerk in a travel direction on the basis of a behavior of the vehicle. When an accelerator of the vehicle is actuated while the vehicle is in a state in which the drive force of the vehicle is restrained, and a speed of the vehicle is lower than a predetermined value. The vehicle control apparatus increases the drive force, and decreases a post-increase drive force on the basis of the acquired jerk.
Claims6
A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
- an object detecting means, using at least one processor, to detect an object in a travel direction of a vehicle;
- a restraining means, using the at least one processor, to restrain a drive force of the vehicle when the object detecting means detects the object;
- and
- a jerk acquiring means, using the at least one processor, to acquire a jerk in a travel direction, on the basis of a behavior of the vehicle, wherein
- when an accelerator of the vehicle is actuated while the vehicle is in a state in which the drive force of the vehicle is restrained, and a speed of the vehicle is lower than a predetermined value, the restraining means increases the drive force and decreases a post-increase drive force on the basis of the jerk acquired by the jerk acquiring means.
A vehicle control method for a vehicle control apparatus, the vehicle control apparatus utilizing at least one processor, the method comprising:
- an object detecting step of detecting an object in a travel direction of a vehicle;
- a restraining step of restraining a drive force of the vehicle when the object is detected in the object detecting step;
- and
- a jerk acquiring step of acquiring a jerk value in the travel direction, the jerk being detected based on a behavior of the vehicle, wherein the jerk detecting step is performed using the at least one processor, wherein
- in the restraining step, when an accelerator of the vehicle is actuated while the vehicle is in a state in which the drive force of the vehicle is restrained, and a speed of the vehicle is lower than a predetermined value, the drive force of the vehicle is increased, and a post-increase drive force is decreased on the basis of the jerk value acquired in the jerk acquiring step.
A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- a processor communicable to the memory;
- and
- a set of computer-executable instructions stored on the memory that cause the processor to implement:
- detecting an object in a travel direction of a vehicle;
- restraining a drive force of the vehicle when the object is detected;
- and
- acquiring a jerk in a travel direction, on the basis of a behavior of the vehicle, wherein
- when an accelerator of the vehicle is actuated while the vehicle is in a state in which the drive force of the vehicle is restrained, and a speed of the vehicle is lower than a predetermined value, the processor increases the drive force and decreases a post-increase drive force on the basis of the jerk acquired.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.