To provide an inter-vehicular distance determination device and an inter-vehicular distance determination method capable of curbing energy consumption when follow-up travel is executed.SOLUTION: An inter-vehicular distance determination device, which is mounted on a vehicle which performs follow-up travel to follow a preceding vehicle while keeping a set inter-vehicular distance on the basis of a set vehicle speed, comprises: a calculation section which calculates energy consumption amounts that a vehicle consumes on the basis of the set vehicle speed and a travel air volume that a vehicle receives for respective cases of a plurality inter-vehicular distances preset for follow-up travel; and a selection section which selects the inter-vehicular distance, among the plurality of inter-vehicular distances, which corresponds to the least energy consumption amount among the calculated plurality of energy consumption amount as the set inter-vehicular distance.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
【課題】追従走行が行われる場合において消費エネルギ量を抑制することができる車間距離判定装置および車間距離判定方法を提供すること。【解決手段】車間距離判定装置は、設定された車速に基づいて、設定された車間距離を保ちながら先行車両に追従走行する車両に搭載され、追従走行用として予め定められた複数の車間距離のそれぞれが取られた場合毎に、前記設定された車速および前記車両が受ける走行風量に基づいて、前記車両で消費される消費エネルギ量を算出する算出部と、前記複数の車間距離のうち、算出された複数の前記消費エネルギ量の中で最も小さい消費エネルギ量に相当する車間距離を、前記設定された車間距離として選択する選択部と、を有する。【選択図】図1
INTER-VEHICULAR DISTANCE DETERMINATION DEVICE AND INTER-VEHICULAR DISTANCE DETERMINATION METHOD
車間距離判定装置および車間距離判定方法
2022-10-03
Patent
Electronic Resource
Japanese
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 |
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