US 11,798,413 B2
Vehicle communication system and vehicle control device
Satoshi Uno, Numazu (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/106,668.
Application 17/106,668 is a continuation of application No. 15/890,638, filed on Feb. 7, 2018, granted, now 10,884,408.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-026883 (JP), filed on Feb. 16, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0080951 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); B60W 10/04 (2006.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 10/20 (2006.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0061 (2013.01) [B60W 10/04 (2013.01); B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 10/20 (2013.01); B60W 50/082 (2013.01); G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0276 (2013.01); G05D 1/0297 (2013.01); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02); B60W 2710/0605 (2013.01); B60W 2710/08 (2013.01); B60W 2710/18 (2013.01); B60W 2710/20 (2013.01); B60W 2720/106 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A vehicle communication system comprising:
a communication server configured to communicate with a plurality of communication vehicles, the communication vehicles being vehicles configured to communicate with the communication server, the communication server including at least one processor programmed to:
recognize positions of communicating communication vehicles on a map via communication with the communication vehicles, the communicating communication vehicles being included in the plurality of communication vehicles and being in communication with the communication server,
set a communication established section and a communication interrupted section on the map, based on the positions of the communicating communication vehicles on the map;
a vehicle control device configured to communicate with the communication server and configured to perform vehicle control of a host vehicle using an actuator mounted on the host vehicle; and
an electronic control unit, provided in the vehicle control device or the communication server, programmed to:
recognize a position of the host vehicle on the map,
acquire section information on the communication established section and the communication interrupted section,
determine in which section, either the communication established section or the communication interrupted section, the host vehicle is traveling or is to travel, based on the position of the host vehicle on the map and the section information, and
perform system driven control of the host vehicle when the host vehicle travels in the determined communication established section, and
perform driver driven control of the host vehicle when the host vehicle travels in the determined communication interrupted section.