OPERATION SWITCHING DEVICE

• Main Author: FUJIE TETSUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 26.04.2018
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MOTOR VEHICLES; NAVIGATION; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SURVEYING; TESTING; TRAILERS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation switching device capable of reducing a burden of a driver.SOLUTION: A next section passing prediction time calculation part 2 acquires a next section distance D, and calculates a passing prediction time T1 based on the next section distance D and a travel speed S. An operation mode switching determination part 4 controls so as not to execute switching in an operation mode switching part 5 for switching an automatic operation mode of making a vehicle automatically travel and a manual operation mode of manually traveling when the passing prediction time T1 on an automatic operation recommendation section or a manual operation recommendation section calculated by the next section passing prediction time calculation part 2, is less than time of adding an allowance value α to two times of an operation mode switching time T2.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】ドライバーの負担を軽減することができる運転切替装置を提供する。【解決手段】次区間通過予測時間算出部２が次区間距離Ｄを取得して、その次区間距離Ｄと走行速度Ｓとに基づいて通過予測時間Ｔ１を算出する。そして、運転モード切替判定部４は、次区間通過予測時間算出部２が算出した自動運転推奨区間又は手動運転推奨区間についての通過予測時間Ｔ１が運転モード切替時間Ｔ２の２倍に余裕値αを加算した時間未満の場合、車両を自動走行させる自動運転モードと手動で走行させる手動運転モードとを切り替える運転モード切替部５における切り替えを行わないように制御する。【選択図】図１