Control system for vehicle

• US 9,828,027 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2015
• Issued: 11/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukukawa, Shogi, Asai, Takatomo, Obayashi, Motonari, Ishijima, Hironobu
• Primary Examiner(s): OLSZEWSKI, JOHN
• Assistant Examiner(s): Worden, Tommy
• Application Number:
  US14/850,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20160075373A1
• Time in Patent Office: 810 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 1/28 non-mechanical , e.g. following a line or other known markers
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/021 Determination of steering angle
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/027 Parking aids, e.g. instruction means
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0285 Parking performed automatically
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 6/002 computing target steering angles for front or rear wheels B62D7/159 takes precedence

Abstract

A control system for a vehicle includes a steering control unit and an electronic control unit. The steering control unit is configured to control a steering angle of a wheel of the vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire a target steering angle set as a target to move the vehicle, adjust the acquired target steering angle such that the target steering angle does not exceed a first guard value determined in order to inhibit a change in the steering angle of the vehicle, larger than or equal to a first reference, output the adjusted target steering angle to the steering control unit in order for the steering control unit to control the steering angle to the adjusted target steering angle, and change the first guard value in response to a situation of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A control system for a vehicle, comprising:

an actuator that adjusts a steering angle of a wheel of the vehicle;

a steering control unit configured to control the actuator to adjust the steering angle of the wheel of the vehicle; and

an electronic control unit configured to acquire a target steering angle set as a target to move the vehicle,

upon a determination that the absolute value of the acquired target steering ankle exceeds a guard value, adjust the acquired target steering angle such that the absolute value of the target steering angle does not exceed the guard value, the guard value being determined to inhibit a change in the steering angle of the vehicle larger than or equal to a first reference, output the adjusted target steering angle to the steering control unit to control the steering angle to the adjusted target steering angle, and change the guard value in response to a situation of the vehicle; and

upon a determination that the absolute value of the acquired target steering angle does not exceed the guard value, output the acquired target steering angle to the steering control unit for the steering control unit to control the steering angle to the acquired target steering angle;

wherein the electronic control unit is configured to set the guard value for a current time period by adding together the guard value at a most recent previous time period with a predetermined guard value width and with a value representing an amount of increase in an actual steering angle of the vehicle from the most recent previous time period to the current time period.

2. The control system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to adjust the target steering angle such that the absolute value of the target steering angle does not exceed the guard value determined to inhibit a change in the steering angle of the vehicle in a first direction, and

then, at the time when a direction in which the target steering angle is changed and switches from the first direction to a second direction that is a direction opposite to the first direction, adjust the target steering angle such that the absolute value of the target steering angle is not lower than another guard value determined to inhibit a change in the steering angle of the vehicle in the second direction, larger than or equal to a second reference.