Vehicle group control device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkihide TACHIBANA
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Abstract
A vehicle group control device includes: a first vehicle-to-vehicle distance estimation unit configured to estimate a first vehicle-to-vehicle distance which is a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle; a second vehicle-to-vehicle distance recognition unit configured to recognize a second vehicle-to-vehicle distance which is a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between a reference interruption vehicle and the first vehicle; and the number of interruption vehicles estimation unit configured to estimate the number of interruption vehicles between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on the first vehicle-to-vehicle distance and the second vehicle-to-vehicle distance.
Claims6
A vehicle group control device configured to control traveling of a vehicle group including at least a first vehicle and a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle, the device comprising:
- a first vehicle-to-vehicle distance estimation unit configured to estimate a first vehicle-to-vehicle distance which is a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle;
- a second vehicle-to-vehicle distance recognition unit configured to recognize a second vehicle-to-vehicle distance which is a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between a reference interruption vehicle and the first vehicle, the reference interruption vehicle being from among the interruption vehicles and traveling immediately in front of the first vehicle, based on a result of measurement performed by a vehicle-mounted sensor of the first vehicle, when at least one interruption vehicle not included in the vehicle group is present between the first vehicle and the second vehicle;
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- a number-of-interruption-vehicles estimation unit configured to estimate the number of interruption vehicles between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on the first vehicle-to-vehicle distance and the second vehicle-to-vehicle distance.
A vehicle group control device configured to control traveling of a vehicle group including at least a first vehicle and a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle, the device comprising:
- a first vehicle-to-vehicle distance estimation unit configured to estimate a first vehicle-to-vehicle distance which is a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle;
- a third vehicle-to-vehicle distance recognition unit configured to recognize a third vehicle-to-vehicle distance which is a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between a leading interruption vehicle and the second vehicle, the leading interruption vehicle being from among the interruption vehicles and traveling immediately behind the second vehicle, based on a result of measurement performed by a vehicle-mounted sensor of the second vehicle, when at least one interruption vehicle not included in the vehicle group is present between the first vehicle and the second vehicle;
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- the number of interruption vehicles estimation unit configured to estimate the number of interruption vehicles between the first vehicle and the second vehicle based on the first vehicle-to-vehicle distance and the third vehicle-to-vehicle distance.
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