TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

• Main Authors: KOBAYASHI HIROMITSU, WADA YOSUKE, ASO KAZUAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 17.08.2017
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; MOTOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAILERS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology that prevents a situation in which unpleasant feeling is imparted to a driver in a travel control device for a vehicle, which is able to perform both inter-vehicle distance control with acceleration function and traffic lane change assistance.SOLUTION: A travel control device 100 for a vehicle comprises an inter-vehicle distance control part 21 and a traffic lane change assisting part 22. An inter-vehicle distance control part 21 exerts inter-vehicle distance control such that the inter-vehicle distance between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle becomes equal to a set inter-vehicle distance. When a winker operation is performed during inter-vehicle distance control, the inter-vehicle distance control part 21 performs passing acceleration control to pass the preceding vehicle when a predetermined standby time has elapsed. When a winker operation is performed, the vehicle lane change assisting part 22 assists steering for a vehicle lane change when the standby time has elapsed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】加速機能付き車間距離制御と車線変更支援の両方を実行しうる車両用走行制御装置において、ドライバーに不快感を与えないようにできる技術を提供する。【解決手段】車両用走行制御装置１００は、車間距離制御部２１と、車線変更支援部２２と、を備える。車間距離制御部２１は、自車両と先行車両との車間距離が設定車間距離になるように車間距離制御を行う。車間距離制御部２１は、車間距離制御中にウィンカ操作された場合、所定の待機時間が経過した時に先行車両の追い越しのための追い越し加速制御を行う。車線変更支援部２２は、ウィンカ操作された場合、待機時間が経過した時に車線変更のための操舵支援を行う。【選択図】図１