Drive assist control device

• US 9,428,221 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2012
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Hanita, Kiyoto
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIEU, VAN THANH
• Application Number:
  US14/402,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20150109119A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,560 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 28/066 actuating a signalling device B60K28/063 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/18 Steering angle
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0245 Means or methods for determination of the central position of the steering system, e.g. straight ahead position
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/029 Steering assistants using warnings or proposing actions to the driver without influencing the steering system

Abstract

A drive assist control device includes a steering determination unit 21 that determines a steering state of a vehicle, a curved state estimation unit 22 that estimates a curved state of a traveling road where the vehicle is traveling, a threshold value setting unit 23 that, in a case where it is determined by the steering determination unit 21 that a steering occurs after a steering wheel stationary state, sets a determination threshold value at the time of steering ts based on the curved state estimated during a period ts to ts+Tc from the time of steering ts to the set time Tc after the time of steering ts or a period ts−Tc to ts from the set time Tc before the time of steering ts to the time of steering ts and which is sharper than the curved state estimated at the time of steering ts, and a warning control unit 25 that actuates a warning in a case where the steering speed at the time of steering ts exceeds the determination threshold value.

Claims

1. A drive assist control device, comprising:

a steering determination unit that determines a steering state of a vehicle;

a curved state estimation unit that estimates a curved state of a traveling road where the vehicle is traveling;

a threshold value determination unit that, in a case where it is determined by the steering determination unit that a steering occurs after a steering wheel stationary state, sets a determination threshold value at a time of steering to be a value larger than a determination threshold value set based on a curved state estimated at the time of steering, based on the curved state estimated during a period from the time of steering to the set time after the time of steering or a period from the set time before the time of steering to the time of steering, the estimated curved state being sharper than the curved state estimated at the time of steering; and

a warning control unit that actuates a warning in a case where the steering speed at the time of steering exceeds the determination threshold value.

2. The drive assist control device according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where it is determined that the steering occurs, the threshold value determination unit sets the determination threshold value at the time of steering based on the curved state estimated during a period from the set time before the time of steering to the set time after the time of steering and which is sharper than the curved state estimated at the time of steering.

3. The drive assist control device according to claim 2,

wherein the threshold value determination unit sets the determination threshold value at the time of steering based on the sharpest curved state estimated during the period.

4. The drive assist control device according to claim 1,

wherein the threshold value determination unit estimates a radius of curvature or curvature of the traveling road as the curved state of the traveling road.