Apparatus for controlling vehicle, system having same and method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsDae Young Kim, Young Min Han
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Abstract
An apparatus for controlling a host vehicle may include: a processor configured to calculate a cut-in possibility in which a nearby vehicle cuts into a lane on which the host vehicle travels ahead of the host vehicle, to determine a plurality of cut-in steps of the calculated cut-in possibility, and to control operation of the host vehicle so as to perform an inter-vehicle distance control operation or to provide a warning to a user of the host vehicle based on a state of the user in each of the plurality of cut-in steps; and storage configured to store the calculated cut-in possibility.
Claims16
An apparatus for controlling a host vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
- a processor configured to calculate a cut-in possibility in which a nearby vehicle cuts into a lane on which the host vehicle travels ahead of the host vehicle, to determine a plurality of cut-in steps of the calculated cut-in possibility, and to control operation of the host vehicle so as to perform an inter-vehicle distance control operation or to provide a warning to a user of the host vehicle based on a state of the user in each of the plurality of cut-in steps;
- and storage configured to store the calculated cut-in possibility, wherein the plurality of cut-in steps include:
- a first cut-in step in which the cut-in possibility is greater than a first reference value and less than a second reference value and the inter-vehicle distance control is not performed after the nearby vehicle cuts into the lane on which the host vehicle travels ahead of the host vehicle;
- and a second cut-in step in which the cut-in possibility is greater than the second reference value and the inter-vehicle distance control is performed after the nearby vehicle cuts into the lane on which the host vehicle travels ahead of the host vehicle.
A method of controlling a host vehicle, the method comprising:
- calculating, by a processor, a cut-in possibility in which a nearby vehicle cuts into a lane on which the host vehicle travels ahead of the host vehicle;
- determining, by the processor, a plurality of cut-in steps of the calculated cut-in possibility;
- controlling, by the processor, operation of the host vehicle so as to perform an inter-vehicle distance control operation or to provide a warning to a user of the host vehicle based on a state of the user in each of the plurality of cut-in steps, wherein the plurality of cut-in steps include:
- a first cut-in step in which the cut-in possibility is greater than a first reference value and less than a second reference value and the inter-vehicle distance control is not performed after the nearby vehicle cuts into the lane on which the host vehicle travels ahead of the host vehicle;
- and a second cut-in step in which the cut-in possibility is greater than the second reference value and the inter-vehicle control is performed after the nearby vehicle cuts into the lane on which the host vehicle travels ahead of the host vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.