AUTOMATIC DRIVING DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC DRIVING METHOD

• Main Authors: WATANABE JUNYA, MATSUI HIDEYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 16.08.2018
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce cases where an occupant feels a nuisance on changeover of a vehicle driving state from an automatic driving state into a manual driving state.SOLUTION: An automatic driving device 100 includes: an interruption section estimation unit 18 for estimating presence/absence of an automatic driving interruption section having a possibility to interrupt execution of automatic driving control on a route to a destination; an intention confirmation unit 20 for confirming presence/absence of an intention of an occupant of a vehicle V to get off the vehicle when presence of the automatic driving interruption section is estimated; a reward provision unit 22 for providing a reward with respect to getting-off when presence of the intention of getting-off is confirmed; and a travel control unit 23 for stopping the vehicle V before arrival at the automatic driving interruption section when presence of the intention of getting-off is confirmed during execution of the automatic driving control.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】車両の運転状態が自動運転状態から手動運転状態へ切り替えられることに対して乗員が煩わしく感じることを低減する。【解決手段】自動運転装置１００は、目的地までの経路上において、自動運転制御の実行が中断される可能性がある自動運転中断区間の有無を推定する中断区間推定部１８と、自動運転中断区間が有りと推定されている場合に、車両Ｖの乗員の降車意思の有無を確認する意思確認部２０と、降車意思が有りと確認された場合に、降車に対する報酬を提供する報酬提供部２２と、自動運転制御の実行中に降車意思が有りと確認された場合には自動運転中断区間に到達する前に車両Ｖを停止させる走行制御部２３とを備えている。【選択図】図１