Adaptive cruise control system for vehicle
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsKenta Kubota, Masanori Kubota, Kenichi Watanabe
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Abstract
An adaptive cruise control system for a host vehicle is arranged to calculate a target vehicle speed, to calculate a target driving force based on the target vehicle speed, to limit a rate of increase of the target driving force when a direction of a wheel driving torque applied to driving wheels is changed from a decelerating direction to an accelerating direction, and to control a throttle opening of an engine based on the limited target driving force.
Claims16
An adaptive cruise control system for a host vehicle, comprising:
- a controller configured
- to set a target vehicle speed,
- to set a target driving force on the basis of the target vehicle speed,
- to control a driving force on the basis of the target driving force, and
- to limit a magnitude of a rate of change of the target driving force within a first predetermined value.
An adaptive cruise control system for a host vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle speed detector for detecting a host-vehicle speed;
- an inter-vehicle distance detector for detecting an inter-vehicle distance between the host vehicle and a preceding vehicle ahead of the host vehicle;
- and
- a controller coupled to the inter-vehicle distance detector and the vehicle speed detector, the controller being configured,
- to calculate a target vehicle speed on the basis of the host vehicle speed and the inter-vehicle distance,
- to calculate a target driving force on the basis of the target vehicle speed,
- to control a driving force on the basis of the target driving force, and
- to limit a magnitude of a rate of change of the target driving force within a first predetermined value.
A method of executing an adaptive cruise control system for a host vehicle, the method comprising:
- setting a target vehicle speed;
- setting a target driving force on the basis of the target vehicle speed;
- controlling a driving force on the basis of the target driving force;
- and
- limiting a magnitude of a rate of change of the target driving force within a first predetermined value.
An adaptive cruise control system for a host vehicle, comprising:
- target vehicle speed setting means for setting a target vehicle speed;
- target driving force setting means for setting a target driving force on the basis of the target vehicle speed;
- driving force controlling means for control a driving force on the basis of the target driving force, and
- limit means for limiting a magnitude of a rate of change of the target driving force within a first predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.