ROUTE PROVIDING DEVICE AND ROUTE PROVIDING METHOD

• Main Author: MATSUMOTO SANETOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 20.08.2020
• 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

To provide a route providing device capable of allowing parking/stopping as well as existence of an obstacle on a lane where an automatic driving vehicle travels, according to the present invention.SOLUTION: A route providing device installed in an own vehicle 12 comprises: a GPS device for acquiring location information of the own vehicle 12; a sensor for sensing surrounding environmental information; a route preparation part for preparing an avoidance route utilized by a succeeding vehicle 14 approaching the own vehicle 12, based on at least the location information and the environmental information; and a communication device for transmitting the prepared avoidance route to the succeeding vehicle 14. The succeeding vehicle 14 executes automatic driving for avoiding the own vehicle 12 along the received avoidance route.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】本発明は、自動運転車両が走行する車線上の駐停車や障害物の存在を許容可能な経路提供装置を提供する。【解決手段】経路提供装置は自車両１２に設けられており、自車両１２の位置情報を取得するＧＰＳ装置と、周囲の環境情報を検知するセンサと、少なくとも位置情報と環境情報とを基に、自車両１２に接近する後続車両１４が利用する回避経路を作成する経路作成部と、作成された回避経路を後続車両１４に送信する通信装置と、を備えている。後続車両１４では、受信した回避経路に沿って自車両１２を回避する自動運転が実行される。【選択図】図１