US 12,466,401 B2
Controller and control method for controlling operation of motorcycle
Lars Pfau, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/599,183
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/052189
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 28, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/201861, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-066838 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0185275 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/17 (2020.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B62J 50/21 (2020.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 30/143 (2013.01) [B62J 50/21 (2020.02); G08G 1/096783 (2013.01); B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2300/36 (2013.01); B60W 2552/35 (2020.02); B60W 2554/406 (2020.02); B60W 2555/20 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A controller (50) that controls operation of a motorcycle (100), to which a surrounding environment detector (10) is mounted, the controller (50) comprising:
an acquisition section (51) that acquires information on a surrounding environment of the motorcycle (100) based on output of the surrounding environment detector (10) during travel of the motorcycle (100); and
an adaptive cruise operation performing section (52) that makes the motorcycle (100) perform adaptive cruise operation based on the surrounding environment information acquired by the acquisition section (51), wherein
the acquisition section (51) acquires road traffic information acquired by a road facility (20) via wireless communication,
the controller (50) further comprising a safety operation performing section (53) that makes the motorcycle (100) currently performing the adaptive cruise operation perform safety operation based on the road traffic information acquired by the acquisition section (51), wherein the safety operation is an operation to urge the rider of the motorcycle (100) to travel between lanes.