DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE

• US 20150073620A1
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: MATSUMURA, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US14/478,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20150073620A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/00 Purposes of road vehicle drive control systems not related to the control of a particular sub-unit, e.g. of systems using conjoint control of vehicle sub-units
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/143 Speed control B60W30/16 takes precedence

Abstract

A driving assistance device including: a storage portion, configured to store a vehicle speed, an acceleration and deceleration tendency at the same place on a travel route respectively for a plurality of times during a time in which a driver performs acceleration and deceleration operations; a learning portion, configured to distinguish a plurality of object vehicle speeds from a plurality of vehicle speeds at the same place stored in the storage portion, and learn the vehicle speeds at the same place based on the plurality of vehicle speeds with small dispersion when the dispersion of the plurality of vehicle speeds identified as object is small; and a driving assistance portion, configured to perform driving assistance based on the vehicle speed learned by the learning portion, when the vehicle travels at a place where the vehicle speed is learned after learning of the learning portion.

Claims

1. A driving assistance device that learns travel data during a time in which a driver performs driving operations to make a vehicle travel, and performs driving assistance based on a learned result, comprising:

a storage portion configured to store respectively a vehicle speed and an acceleration and deceleration tendency at a same place-on a travel route, for a plurality of times, during a time in which the driver performs acceleration and deceleration operations;

a learning portion configured to identify a plurality of object vehicle speeds used for learning from the plurality of vehicle speeds at the same place stored in the storage portion based on the acceleration and deceleration tendency, and when a dispersion of the plurality of vehicle speeds identified as object is small, learns the vehicle speed at the same place based on the plurality of vehicle speeds having the small dispersion; and

a driving assistance portion configured to perform driving assistance, based on the vehicle speed learned by the learning portion, when the vehicle travels at a place where the vehicle speed is learned after learning of the learning portion.

2. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the learning portion is configured to identify the vehicle speeds having a same acceleration and deceleration tendency from the plurality of vehicle speeds at the same place stored in the storage portion as the plurality of object vehicle speeds.

3. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the learning portion is configured to identify a plurality of vehicle speeds having a small dispersion of degrees of acceleration and deceleration from the plurality of vehicle speeds at the same place stored in the storage portion as the plurality of object vehicle speeds.

4. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the driving assistance portion does not perform the driving assistance at the learned place based on the learned vehicle speed, when the vehicle speed learned by the learning portion is of acceleration tendency and a current vehicle speed of the vehicle is higher than the learned vehicle speed by a predetermined amount or above, or when the vehicle speed learned by the learning portion is of deceleration tendency and the current vehicle speed of the vehicle is lower than the learned vehicle speed by a predetermined amount or above.

5. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a separating portion that analyses frequencies of the plurality of vehicle speeds at the same place stored in the storage portion, and when the frequencies of the plurality of vehicle speeds are determined to have a multiple peaks by the analysis, separates the plurality of vehicle speeds into a plurality of vehicle speeds corresponding to a travel pattern at each peak of the multiple peaks,

wherein the learning portion identifies the plurality of object vehicle speeds from the plurality of vehicle speeds corresponding to the travel pattern of a peak at each separated peak based on the acceleration and deceleration tendency, when the separating portion separates the plurality of vehicle speeds at each peak of the multiple peaks, and learns the vehicle speed at the same place based on the plurality of vehicle speeds having the small dispersion, when the dispersion of the plurality of vehicle speeds identified as object is determined to be small,

wherein the driving assistance portion performs the driving assistance based on the vehicle speed learned by the learning portion using the plurality of vehicle speeds corresponding to a travel pattern which is the same with the travelling travel pattern, when the separating portion separates the plurality of vehicle speeds at each peak of the multiple peaks and the vehicle travels at a place where the vehicle speed is learned after learning of the learning portion.

6. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a surrounding environment detecting portion configured to detect surrounding environments of the vehicle;

a classifying portion configured to classify the surrounding environments into a plurality of surrounding environment patterns, when the surrounding environment detected by the surrounding environment detecting portion changes over time and becomes a reason for changing a behavior of the vehicle; and

a separating portion configured to separate the plurality of vehicle speeds at the same place stored in the storage portion into a plurality of vehicle speeds corresponding to a surrounding environment pattern at each surrounding environment pattern, when the classifying portion classifies the surrounding environments into a plurality of surrounding environment patterns,

wherein the learning portion identifies a plurality of object vehicle speeds from the plurality of vehicle speeds corresponding to the surrounding environment pattern based on the acceleration and deceleration tendency, when the separating portion separates the plurality of vehicle speeds at each surrounding environment pattern, and learns the vehicle speed at the same place based on the plurality of vehicle speeds identified as object having the small dispersion, when the dispersion of the plurality of vehicle speeds identified as object is determined to be small,

wherein the driving assistance portion performs the driving assistance based on the vehicle speed learned by the learning portion using the plurality of vehicle speeds corresponding to a surrounding environment pattern which is the same with the travelling surrounding environment pattern, when the separating portion separates the plurality of vehicle speeds at each surrounding environment pattern and the vehicle travels at the place where the vehicle speed is learned after learning of the learning portion.

7. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a preceding vehicle detecting portion configured to detect a preceding vehicle travelling in front of the vehicle; and

a correcting portion configured to correct the vehicle speeds stored during a time in which the preceding vehicle is detected by the preceding vehicle detecting portion among the plurality of vehicle speeds at the same place stored in the storage portion to the side of the vehicle speeds stored during a time in which the preceding vehicle is not detected, by using the vehicle speeds stored during the time in which the preceding vehicle is not detected by the preceding vehicle detecting portion, and stores corrected vehicle speeds in the storage portion,

wherein the learning portion, when the correcting portion performs the correction, identifies the plurality of object vehicle speeds from the corrected vehicle speeds at the same place stored in the storage portion and the vehicle speeds stored during the time in which the preceding vehicle is not detected by the preceding vehicle detecting portion based on the acceleration and deceleration tendency, and learns the vehicle speed at the same place based on the plurality of vehicle speeds having the small dispersion, when the dispersion of the plurality of vehicle speeds identified as object is small.

8. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the storage portion is configured to store respectively the vehicle speeds at a plurality of places on the travel route at each first period, and calculates a dispersion of vehicle speeds within a predetermined range based on the stored vehicle speeds at the plurality of places, and when the calculated dispersion of the vehicle speeds within the predetermined range is small, stores the vehicle speed concerning a place included within the predetermined range at each second period which is shorter than the first period.

9. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the driving assistance portion is configured to provide the learned vehicle speed at the learned place and information of the acceleration and deceleration control performed based on the learned vehicle speed, when the vehicle travels at a place where the vehicle speed is learned after learning of the learning portion.