VEHICLE PLATOON SUPPORT METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, AND VEHICLE PLATOON SUPPORT SYSTEM

• Main Authors: ENOMOTO TARO, SAITO YUJI, ITO ATSUSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 01.10.2020
• 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 vehicle platoon support method capable of supporting a vehicle platoon of multiple vehicles through simple processing, a vehicle control device and a vehicle platoon support system.SOLUTION: A vehicle platoon support method includes: a preceding vehicle course information acquisition step of enabling a second vehicle 60 following a first vehicle 40 to acquire preceding vehicle course information from an image captured by a front camera 61; and an overlapped course determination step of enabling the second vehicle 60 to recognize a predetermined course of the first vehicle 40 from the preceding vehicle course information and determining whether a course of the second vehicle 60 to a destination is overlapped at least partially with the predetermined course of the first vehicle 40.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】簡易な処理によって複数車両の隊列走行を支援することができる隊列走行支援方法、車両制御装置、及び隊列走行支援システムを提供する。【解決手段】第１車両４０に後続する第２車両６０が、前方カメラ６１による撮影画像から、先行車両経路情報を取得する先行車両経路情報取得ステップと、第２車両６０が、先行車両経路情報から第１車両４０の予定経路を認識し、第２車両６０の目的地への経路が第１車両４０の予定経路の少なくとも一部と重複するか否かを判断する重複経路判断ステップとを含む。【選択図】図１