Patent ID: 11887479
Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 5:
6. A vehicle control device for automatically driving a vehicle according to a guidance route generated based on map information of a parking lot, the vehicle control device comprising:
a vehicle specification database that records a size and a minimum turning radius of an own vehicle;
a target parking position determination unit that determines a target parking position based on the size of each parking block and the position of an empty vehicle space acquired from a parking lot map database and the size of the own vehicle acquired from the vehicle specification database;
a route candidate generation unit that generates a candidate for the guidance route based on the map information and specification information of the vehicle; and
a turning point generation unit that sets a turning point on the guidance route generated by the route candidate generation unit.