US 12,441,305 B2
Vehicle control device
Ryota Mita, Hitachinaka (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka (JP)
Appl. No. 18/249,090
Filed by Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 27, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/035457
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 14, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/097387, PCT Pub. Date May 12, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-185024 (JP), filed on Nov. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0391320 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/09 (2013.01) [B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising one or more processors configured to:
detect an object around the vehicle based on external environment information output from an external sensor mounted on the vehicle to generate three-dimensional object information;
generate information on a plurality of split regions, which are obtained by splitting a target region including the object in a longitudinal direction and a height direction based on the external environment information, and set a damage degree to each of the plurality of split regions depending on an estimated magnitude of damage at an estimated time of collision of the vehicle;
record information on a plurality of host vehicle split regions, which are obtained by splitting a host vehicle region including the vehicle, and a host vehicle damage degree set to each of the plurality of host vehicle split regions depending on an estimated magnitude of damage at an estimated time of collision of the object; and
control travel of the vehicle to minimize a collision damage degree corresponding to the damage degree and a product of the damage degree and the host vehicle damage degree.