Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and program for vehicles with cargo on uneven roads
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTim Puphal, Vipul Ramtekkar, Kenji Nishimiya
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Abstract
A vehicle control device including a storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable instructions to: acquire cargo information relating to cargo loaded on a vehicle; acquire road surface information relating to a road surface in a travel direction of the vehicle; calculate at least a degree of damage of the cargo, which is predicted to be caused by travel of the vehicle on the road surface, based on the cargo information and the road surface information; and determine a travel profile of the vehicle at least based on the degree of damage.
Claims9
A vehicle control device comprising a storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable instructions to:
- acquire cargo information relating to cargo loaded on a vehicle;
- acquire road surface information relating to a road surface in a travel direction of the vehicle;
- calculate at least a degree of damage of the cargo, which is predicted to be caused by travel of the vehicle on the road surface, based on the cargo information and the road surface information;
- and
- determine a travel profile of the vehicle at least based on the degree of damage.
A vehicle control method to be executed by a computer, the vehicle control method comprising:
- acquiring cargo information relating to cargo loaded on a vehicle;
- acquiring road surface information relating to a road surface in a travel direction of the vehicle;
- calculating at least a degree of damage of the cargo, which is predicted to be caused by travel of the vehicle on the road surface, based on the cargo information and the road surface information;
- and
- determining a travel profile of the vehicle at least based on the degree of damage.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to:
- acquire cargo information relating to cargo loaded on a vehicle;
- acquire road surface information relating to a road surface in a travel direction of the vehicle;
- calculate at least a degree of damage of the cargo, which is predicted to be caused by travel of the vehicle on the road surface, based on the cargo information and the road surface information;
- and
- determine a travel profile of the vehicle at least based on the degree of damage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.