AUTOMATIC PARKING SYSTEM

• US 20150353080A1
• Filed: 04/22/2015
• Published: 12/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: MUKAIYAMA, Yoshio
• Granted Patent: US 9,308,913 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/00 Input parameters relating to objects
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/06 Automatic manoeuvring for parking
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/08 Active safety systems predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision or attempting to minimise its consequences
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/09 Taking automatic action to avoid collision, e.g. braking and steering
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/025 Active steering aids, e.g. helping the driver by actively influencing the steering system after environment evaluation B62D1/28 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0285 Parking performed automatically
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 77/54 Automatic securing or unlocking of bolts triggered by certain vehicle parameters, e.g. exceeding a speed threshold triggered by vehicle collision E05B77/12

Abstract

An automatic parking system is disclosed. The automatic parking system includes: a monitoring device configured to monitor a parking space and a traveling path in a parking lot; an automatic drive unit configured to perform an automatic drive control for a vehicle in the parking lot to move from a current position to a predetermined target position in the parking lot based on a monitoring result of the monitoring device; and a contact determination unit configured to perform a contact determination between the vehicle in the automatic drive control and an obstacle, based on the monitoring result, or the like. In a case where the contact determination is performed by the contact determination unit, the automatic drive unit causes the vehicle to stop, and then, causes the vehicle to move to a removal position and to be parked using the automatic drive control.

Claims

1. An automatic parking system comprising:

a monitoring device configured to monitor a parking space and a path in a parking lot;

an automatic drive unit configured to perform an automatic drive control for a vehicle in the parking lot to move from a current position to a predetermined target position in the parking lot based on a monitoring result of the monitoring device; and

a contact determination unit configured to perform a contact determination between the vehicle in the automatic drive control and an obstacle, based on the monitoring result or a detection result of a sensor mounted in the vehicle,

wherein, in a case where the contact determination is performed by the contact determination unit, the automatic drive unit causes the vehicle to stop, and

wherein, after the vehicle stops, the automatic drive unit causes the vehicle to move to a removal position and to be parked using the automatic drive control, and the removal position is determined based on the monitoring result or the detection result.

2. The automatic parking system according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where the contact determination is performed by the contact determination unit during the automatic drive control of the vehicle from the parking space in which the vehicle was parked to the target position, and in the case where a predetermined removal position indeterminable condition is satisfied, the automatic drive unit causes the vehicle to move to the parking space in which the vehicle was parked or to the target position and to be parked using the automatic drive control.

3. The automatic parking system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a door lock control unit configured to control a door lock state of the vehicle,

wherein the automatic drive unit makes the door lock state of the vehicle be in a locked state via the door lock control unit in a case where the automatic drive control is performed on the vehicle, and makes the door lock state of the vehicle be in an unlocked state via the door lock control unit in a case where the vehicle is parked after the contact determination is performed by the contact determination unit.

4. The automatic parking system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a door lock control unit configured to control a door lock state of the vehicle,

wherein the automatic drive unit makes the door lock state of the vehicle be in a locked state via the door lock control unit in a case where the automatic drive control is performed on the vehicle, and makes the door lock state of the vehicle be in an unlocked state via the door lock control unit in a case where the vehicle is parked after the contact determination is performed by the contact determination unit.