Travel Assistance Method and Travel Assistance Device
AssigneesNissan Motor Co., Ltd., RENAULT s.a.s.
InventorsMachiko Hiramatsu, Yuji Takada
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Abstract
A travel assistance method assists the traveling of a host vehicle using a determined route and vehicle speed. The method includes: detecting an obstacle in an adjacent lane of a travel lane in which the host vehicle travels; setting a travel range on a side of the obstacle on the host vehicle side when the obstacle is detected; setting at least one of the route and the vehicle speed such that the host vehicle does not obstruct advancing of another vehicle traveling in the adjacent lane toward the obstacle in the travel range; and executing travel assistance using the set route and/or vehicle speed.
Claims11
A travel assistance method including:
- detecting an obstacle in an adjacent lane of a travel lane in which ahost vehicle travels;
- setting a travel range on a side of the obstacle on a host vehicle side when the obstacle is detected;
- setting at least one of a route and a vehicle speed such that the host vehicle does not obstruct advancing of another vehicle traveling in the adjacent lane toward the obstacle in the travel range;
- executing travel assistance using one or both of the route and the vehicle speed;
- determining whether the host vehicle performs stop control toward the travel range;
- and
- setting one or both of the route and the vehicle speed such that the host vehicle stops on a side of the travel range, or such that the host vehicle stops before or in front of the travel range, when the host vehicle performs the stop control.
A travel assistance device comprising:
- a controller configured to :
- detect an obstacle in an adjacent lane of a travel lane in which a host vehicle travels;
- set a travel range on a side of the obstacle on a host vehicle side when the obstacle is detected;
- set at least one of a route and a vehicle speed such that the host vehicle does not obstruct advancing of another vehicle travelling in the adjacent lane toward the obstacle in the travel range;
- execute travel assistance using one or both of the route and the vehicle speed;
- determine whether the host vehicle performs stop control toward the travel range;
- and
- set one or both of the route and the vehicle speed such that the host vehicle stops on a side of the travel range, or such that the host vehicle stops before or in front of the travel range, when the host vehicle performs the stop control.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.