A travel controller autonomously controlling a travel of a vehicle, detecting a departure preventer preventing the vehicle from running off a road at an edge of the road under autonomous control from surrounding data representing surroundings of the vehicle, when no departure preventer is detected, determining a possibility of the vehicle reaching the edge of the road based on an expected movement amount of the vehicle in the lateral direction until stopping and a distance from the vehicle to the road edge, and, when there is a possibility of the vehicle reaching the road edge, notifying the driver of a transition demand demanding transition from the autonomous control to manual control of a travel of the vehicle based on driving operations of the driver of the vehicle, and when there is no possibility of the vehicle reaching the road edge, not notifying the driver of the transition demand.
TRAVEL CONTROLLER AND TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD
2024-02-29
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B60W CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION , Gemeinsame Steuerung oder Regelung von Fahrzeug-Unteraggregaten verschiedenen Typs oder verschiedener Funktion |
TRAVEL CONTROLLER, TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD, AND TRAVEL CONTROL PROGRAM
Europäisches Patentamt | 2020
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