Patent ID: 11884322
Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A drive assist apparatus to be applied to a vehicle, the drive assist apparatus comprising:
a surrounding situation recognition device configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a first vehicle that is the vehicle to be applied with the drive assist apparatus;
a surrounding situation determination processor configured to determine the surrounding situation of the first vehicle on a basis of a result of recognition performed by the surrounding situation recognition device;
a steering-wheel holding state recognizer configured to recognize a steering-wheel holding state that is a state in which a driver who drives the first vehicle is holding a steering wheel of the first vehicle;
a steering-wheel holding state determination processor configured to determine the steering-wheel holding state on a basis of a result of recognition performed by the steering-wheel holding state recognizer; and
a traveling control device configured to perform a traveling control of the first vehicle on a basis of a result of determination performed by the surrounding situation determination processor or the steering-wheel holding state determination processor,
the traveling control device being configured to execute a traveling control for emergency in a case where the result of the determination performed by the surrounding situation determination processor or the steering-wheel holding state determination processor indicates that the first vehicle or the driver of the first vehicle is unable to maintain normal traveling,
wherein the traveling control device includes:
a traveling lane setting processor configured to set a set traveling lane on which the first vehicle is to travel, on a basis of information of the surrounding situation of the first vehicle recognized by the surrounding situation recognition device; and
a steering assist control processor including
a target traveling position setting section configured to set a target traveling position at which the first vehicle is to travel within the set traveling lane set by the traveling lane setting processor, and
a lane departure determination section configured to determine, when the first vehicle is traveling on the set traveling lane, whether the first vehicle is to depart from the set traveling lane,

wherein the steering assist control processor is configured to selectively execute each of:
a lane departure prevention control including a steering assist control to be executed in a case where the first vehicle is determined, by the lane departure determination section, as being to depart from the set traveling lane; and
an emergency lane keeping control including a steering assist control to be executed in a case where a second vehicle is recognized by the surrounding situation recognition device and where the first vehicle is determined, by the lane departure determination section, as being to depart from the set traveling lane, the second vehicle being a vehicle opposing the first vehicle or traveling in a rear-side region of the first vehicle in a direction same as a traveling direction of the first vehicle, and

wherein the steering assist control processor is configured to:
in a case where both the lane departure prevention control and the emergency lane keeping control are in an activated state, perform switching from the emergency lane keeping control to the lane departure prevention control at a timing when the second vehicle becomes no longer detected in a period in which the first vehicle is caused to travel along a lane line of the set traveling lane without crossing the lane line, and execute a first emergency lane keeping control, the first emergency lane keeping control being a control of performing a traveling control that causes a traveling position of the first vehicle to return from a position at which the first vehicle is prevented from crossing the lane line of the set traveling lane to the target traveling position; and
in a case where the lane departure prevention control is in a non-activated state and the emergency lane keeping control is in the activated state, execute a second emergency lane keeping control of ending the emergency lane keeping control, at a timing when the second vehicle becomes no longer detected in a period in which the first vehicle is caused to travel along the lane line of the set traveling lane without crossing the lane line and is thereafter caused to travel along a lane end within the set traveling lane.