Patent ID: 11900806
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle comprising:
a GPS receiver configured to receive signals from GPS satellites;
an actuator including a throttle actuator, a brake actuator, and a steering actuator; and
an electronic control unit (ECU) including processors configured to:
recognize a position of the vehicle on a map based on the signals received by the GPS receiver;
acquire section information on a communication established section and a communication interrupted section via communication with 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 established section and the communication interrupted section being set on the map by the communication server based on a status of communication with the communication vehicles;
determine in which section, either the communication established section or the communication interrupted section, the vehicle is traveling, based on the position of the vehicle on the map and the section information;
perform vehicle control of the vehicle using the actuator, in such a way that system driven control of the vehicle is performed, when the vehicle travels in the determined communication established section; and
perform driver driven control of the vehicle when the vehicle travels in the determined communication interrupted section; and

perform the system driven control of the vehicle based on road condition information acquired from the communication server, when the vehicle travels in the determined communication established section.