Vehicle behavior control device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMitsutaka Tanimoto
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Abstract
A vehicle including a vehicle behavior control device in an ECU. The vehicle behavior control device obtains a line of sight direction of the driver of the vehicle by a line of sight detecting sensor for detecting the line of sight of the driver from an eye movement of the driver. The vehicle behavior control device decides a targeted traveling direction of the vehicle based on the obtained line of sight direction of the driver. Then, the vehicle behavior control device controls a rear wheel steering device such that a front-rear direction of the vehicle faces the targeted traveling direction of the vehicle.
Claims11
A vehicle behavior control device, comprising:
- a traveling direction setting unit that estimates a target traveling direction, which is a targeted traveling direction of a vehicle, based on a movement of a driver different from a movement performed by the driver for controlling motion of the vehicle;
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- a vehicle behavior control unit that changes a control mode of a vehicle behavior control to the vehicle, based on the target traveling direction set by the traveling direction setting unit, wherein
- the traveling direction setting unit estimates the target traveling direction based on at least one of a line of sight direction of a driver who operates the vehicle and a direction of a face of the driver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.