Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsTakuya Kume, Kazuki Izumi
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Abstract
A vehicle control device specifies a travel location of a subject vehicle; and executes a location target speed control, which is a speed control with respect to a location as a control target for automatically changing a speed of the vehicle when a travel location of the vehicle is a specific location where a speed change of the vehicle is required due to a structure of a road. The vehicle control device executes the location target speed control differently depending on whether the subject vehicle is in the autonomous driving with monitoring obligation or in the autonomous driving with no monitoring obligation.
Claims30
A vehicle control device for a vehicle capable of switching between an autonomous driving with no monitoring obligation, which is an autonomous driving operation with no obligation to monitor a periphery of the vehicle, and an autonomous driving with monitoring obligation, which is an autonomous driving operation with obligation to monitor the periphery of the vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising:
- a location specifying unit that specifies a travel location of the vehicle;
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- a speed control unit that executes a location target speed control, which is a speed control with respect to a location as a control target for automatically changing a speed of the vehicle when a travel location of the vehicle specified by the location specifying unit is a specific location where a speed change of the vehicle is required due to a structure of a road, wherein:
- the speed control unit executes the location target speed control such that the location target speed control in the autonomous driving with monitoring obligation is different from the location target speed control in the autonomous driving with no monitoring obligation.
A vehicle control method for a vehicle capable of switching between an autonomous driving with no monitoring obligation, which is an autonomous driving operation with no obligation to monitor a periphery of the vehicle, and an autonomous driving with monitoring obligation, which is an autonomous driving operation with obligation to monitor the periphery of the vehicle, the vehicle control method, executed by at least one processor, comprising:
- a location specifying step for specifying a travel location of the vehicle;
- a speed control step for executing a location target speed control, which is a speed control with respect to a location as a control target for automatically changing a speed of the vehicle when a travel location of the vehicle specified in the location specifying step is a specific location where a speed change of the vehicle is required due to a structure of a road, wherein:
- in the speed control step, the location target speed control is executed such that the location target speed control in the autonomous driving with monitoring obligation is different from the location target speed control in the autonomous driving with no monitoring obligation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.