Patent ID: 11904896
Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle control device comprising:
a sensor that measures a driving environment around a vehicle;
a memory: and
a processor communicatively coupled to the sensor and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
calculate a drivable area, which is a space in which the vehicle is safely drivable, based on information from the sensor and a destination of the vehicle,
calculate a target track including a route and a velocity satisfying a predetermined riding comfort condition in the drivable area and controls the vehicle so as to follow the target track,
regenerate the target track when the target track deviates from the predetermined riding comfort condition while driving the vehicle, and
set a reconnection point on the target track before regeneration based on a current vehicle position and the target track before the target track is regenerated, and
regenerates the target track so as to connect the current vehicle position to the target track before the target track is regenerated at the reconnection point, wherein the reconnection point is set to increase a connection distance between the vehicle and the reconnection point as a product of a separation amount between the vehicle and the target track before the target track is regenerated and the velocity of the vehicle increases.