Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsAya Sasaki, Tomoaki Ohashi, Nariaki Kuriyama
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes an environment detection unit that detects environment information about an interior and an exterior of a target vehicle, an emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a driver based on the environment information, a driving error behavior prediction unit that predicts driving error behavior of the driver when the estimated emotion is a strong emotion, a driving risk prediction unit that predicts a driving risk based on the predicted driving error behavior, and a risk suppression unit that performs predetermined control in accordance with the predicted driving risk.
Claims8
A vehicle control apparatus, comprising:
- an environment detection unit that detects environment information about at least one of an interior and an exterior of a target vehicle;
- an emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a driver, based on the environment information;
- a driving error behavior prediction unit that predicts driving error behavior of the driver, when the estimated emotion is a strong emotion;
- a driving risk prediction unit that predicts a driving risk, based on the predicted driving error behavior;
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- a risk suppression unit that performs predetermined control in accordance with the predicted driving risk.
A vehicle control method executed by a computer, the vehicle control method comprising:
- an environment detection step of detecting environment information about at least one of an interior and an exterior of a target vehicle;
- an emotion estimation step of estimating an emotion of a driver, based on the environment information;
- a driving error behavior prediction step of predicting driving error behavior of the driver, when the estimated emotion is a strong emotion;
- a driving risk prediction step of predicting a driving risk, based on the predicted driving error behavior;
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- a risk suppression step of performing predetermined control in accordance with the predicted driving risk.
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