Patent ID: 6957138
Filing Date: 2005-10-18
Classification: B60G,B60K,B60T,B60W,H04L

Abstract:
1. A vehicle travel control apparatus for proxying or assisting driving of a driver by automatically controlling a control object without reference to driving operations of a driver during vehicle travel, the apparatus comprising: detecting means for detecting three or more types of travel data, one of the three or more types of travel data including a behavior of a vehicle during vehicle travel, and another one of the three or more types of travel data including at least one of a driving operation of a driver and a travel environment of the vehicle; sampling means for sampling all the travel data detected by the detecting means during non-control of the control object by the travel control apparatus; digitization means for digitizing as preference data a plurality of preferences during vehicle travel of the driver by performing multiple regression analysis with one travel data expressing a behavior of the vehicle as a target variable and the other travel data as explanatory variables among the travel data sampled by the sampling means; control target computing means for, during control of the control object by the travel control apparatus, computing a control target of the behavior of the vehicle that is the target variable on the basis of, among the travel data detected by the detecting means, the travel data excluding the behavior of the vehicle that is the target variable, and the preference data digitized by the digitization means; and control means for controlling the control object so that the behavior of the vehicle that is the target variable during vehicle travel becomes the control target computed by the control target computing means.