TRAVEL CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE

摘要

In a travel control apparatus for a vehicle, a travel environment information acquisition unit acquires travel environment information, and a travel information detector detects travel information relating to the vehicle. The apparatus executes automatic driving control based on such information pieces. A vehicle peripheral object detector detects an object around the vehicle, separately to the travel environment information acquisition unit. An environment information acquisition failure detector detects an acquisition failure in the travel environment information acquisition unit. Upon an acquisition failure of the travel environment information, an evacuation controller executes evacuation control by evacuating the vehicle to the roadside through automatic driving based on the travel environment information detected most recently before the acquisition failure and the travel information, and activates the vehicle peripheral object detector and, when an object is detected on the periphery around the vehicle, executes the evacuation control.

主权项

1. A travel control apparatus for a vehicle, the travel control apparatus having a travel environment information acquisition unit that acquires travel environment information relating to a travel environment in which the vehicle travels, and a travel information detector that detects travel information relating to the vehicle, whereby the travel control apparatus executes automatic driving control on the basis of the travel environment information and the travel information relating to the vehicle, the travel control apparatus comprising:
a vehicle peripheral object detector that detects an object on a periphery of the vehicle, separately to the travel environment information acquisition unit; an environment information acquisition failure detector that detects an acquisition failure in the travel environment information acquisition unit; and an evacuation controller that executes evacuation control, when an acquisition failure of the travel environment information is detected, by setting a travel path on which to evacuate the vehicle to a roadside as a target travel path on the basis of the travel environment information detected most recently before the acquisition failure of the travel environment information and the travel information and then evacuating the vehicle to the roadside through automatic driving, and that activates the vehicle peripheral object detector and, when the vehicle peripheral object detector detects an object on the periphery of the vehicle, executes the evacuation control on the basis of information relating to the object on the periphery of the vehicle, the travel information, and the travel environment information detected most recently before the acquisition failure of the travel environment information.