VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS: abstract simplified (18158817)

• This abstract for appeared for patent application number 18158817 Titled 'VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS'

Simplified Explanation

The vehicle control apparatus described in the abstract is designed to improve the comfort and safety of lane changing maneuvers. It calculates a target trajectory for lane changing while avoiding prohibited areas, and then determines whether it is possible to change lanes based on the position of the vehicle in the target trajectory. If it is determined that lane changing is possible, the vehicle is guided to change lanes using the target trajectory.

Original Abstract Submitted

There is provided a vehicle control apparatus that can correctly determine that lane changing is possible in a situation that by accelerating or decelerating, an ego vehicle can perform the lane changing without interfering with an obstacle, and that raises the comfortability for the drier. In the vehicle control apparatus, a target trajectory for performing lane changing under restriction of not entering an entry prohibition region is calculated; a determination section determines whether or not lane changing is possible, based on at least information on a position of the ego vehicle in the target trajectory; in the case where it is determined that lane changing is possible, the ego vehicle is made to change a lane, by use of the target trajectory.