Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
AssigneeAstemo, Ltd.
InventorsYoshinobu OGASAWARA, Shigenori HAYASE, Tatsuhiko MONJI
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Abstract
A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize external world information of a periphery of an own vehicle and detect an evacuation candidate area for evacuating the own vehicle that passes by an oncoming vehicle, an availability determination unit configured to determine availability of the evacuation candidate area detected by the recognition unit, and an evacuation area setting unit configured to set the evacuation candidate area determined as usable by the availability determination unit as an evacuation area.
Claims12
A vehicle control device comprising:
- a recognition unit configured to recognize external world information of a periphery of an own vehicle and detect an evacuation candidate area for evacuating the own vehicle that passes by an oncoming vehicle;
- an availability determination unit configured to determine availability of the evacuation candidate area detected by the recognition unit;
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- an evacuation area setting unit configured to set the evacuation candidate area determined as usable by the availability determination unit as an evacuation area.
A vehicle control method comprising:
- recognizing external world information of a periphery of an own vehicle and detecting an evacuation candidate area for evacuating the own vehicle when passing by an oncoming vehicle;
- determining availability of the detected evacuation candidate area;
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- setting the evacuation candidate area determined as usable as an evacuation area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.