Vehicle travelling control device and method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYusuke Fukui
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Abstract
A vehicle traveling control device includes a sensor for detecting a steering operation, an object information acquisition device for acquiring object information around a vehicle, an automatic braking device for automatically braking the vehicle, and a driving support ECU for controlling the automatic braking device, in which the driving support ECU activates the automatic braking device to perform automatic braking for automatically braking the vehicle in a case where it is determined based on the object information acquired by the object information acquisition device that there is a risk of off-road departure of the vehicle and also it is determined based on the steering operation detected by a sensor that a steering operation has been performed in a direction of the off-road departure of the vehicle.
Claims5
A vehicle traveling control device comprising:
- a steering operation detection device that detects a steering operation by a driver;
- an object information acquisition device that acquires information on an object around a vehicle;
- an automatic braking device that automatically brakes the vehicle;
- and
- a control unit that controls the automatic braking device, wherein the control unit is configured to activate the automatic braking device to perform automatic braking for automatically braking the vehicle in a case where it is determined based on the information on the object acquired by the object information acquisition device that there is a risk that the vehicle may depart off a road and also it is determined based on the steering operation detected by the steering operation detection device that a steering operation in a direction in which the vehicle departs off the road has been performed.
A vehicle traveling control method comprising:
- acquiring information on an object around a vehicle and determining, based on the acquired information on the object, a risk of departure that the vehicle departs off a road;
- and
- activating an automatic braking device to perform automatic braking for automatically braking the vehicle when it is determined that there is a risk of departure, wherein the method detects a driver's steering operation, performs no automatic braking when it is determined that the steering operation has been performed in a direction other than a direction in which the vehicle departs off a road even in a case where it is determined that there is a risk of departure, and performs automatic braking when it is determined that there is a risk of departure and also it is determined that the steering operation has been performed in the direction in which the vehicle departs off the road.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.