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Driving control device for a vehicle

  • US 20050125115A1
  • Filed: 12/06/2004
  • Published: 06/09/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A driving control device for a vehicle comprising:

  • a base station which has been set to a position that has been measured beforehand, for transmitting correction information to each point within a predetermined area based upon the information received from satellites orbiting the Earth;

    a moving station included in said vehicle for calculating the position of the vehicle based upon the information received from said base station and the information received from said satellites;

    driving-route storage means for storing the driving route along which said vehicle has moved; and

    control means wherein at the time of establishment of communication between said base station and said moving station, in the event that determination is made that the current position of said vehicle calculated by said moving station has been judged as generally match with any driving route which has been stored in said driving-route storage means in the past, said control means set the target driving route to said driving route stored in the past, and perform automatic driving control of said vehicle such that said vehicle reaches the destination according to said target driving route thus set, and on the other hand, in the event that determination is made that the current position of said vehicle calculated by said moving station has been judged as different from any driving routes which have been stored in said driving-route storage means in the past, said control means continuously store the driving route including the current position, along which said vehicle is moving, in said driving-route storage means.

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