| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To attain optimum automatic follow-up traveling considering also a change in the weight of a vehicle due to the increment/decrement of the number of passengers or the number of baggages and coincident with operator's practical operation sense by controlling the traveling of the vehicle in accordance with its weight, speed and steering angle. CONSTITUTION:An inter-vehicle distance, a relative speed, a relative position, a self-vehicle speed, and a steering angle respectively detected by a laser radar device 20, a vehicle speed sensor 22 and a steering angle sensor 24 are sent to a hazard calculating means 26. Hazard calculated by the means 26 is sent to a proper inter-vehicle distance calculating means 28 to calculate a proper inter-vehicle distance. A proper vehicle speed manipulated variable control means 30 calculates a corrected manipulated variable by using vehicle weight detected by a vehicle height sensor 25 to be a weight sensor based upon the sent proper inter-vehicle distance. Since the hazard coincident with driver's practical operation sense is evaluated and a proper vehicle speed is controlled in consideration of the vehicle weight, optimum follow-up traveling with high responsiveness can be attained.
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