Patent ID: 7099764
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: B60T

Abstract:
1. A braking control device comprising: a forward object detecting section configured to detect an object in front of a vehicle in which the braking control device is installed; an avoidance possibility determining section configured to determine if the object detected in the front of the vehicle by the forward object detecting section can be avoided by at least one of steering and braking; an automatic braking section configured to execute automatic braking when the avoidance possibility determining section determines that the object cannot be avoided by the at least one of steering and braking; and a vehicle behavior response characteristic determining section configured to determine a vehicle behavior response characteristic that includes at least one of a suspension characteristic of the vehicle based on a suspension characteristic setting, a steering avoidance direction force that will be generated in the steering avoidance direction should the object detected in the front of the vehicle by the forward object detecting section be avoided by steering with the steering avoidance direction force being calculated based on a longitudinal force and a load acting on wheels of the vehicle, an accelerator pedal release deceleration that will result should an accelerator pedal be released, and a vehicle-object relationship between the vehicle and the object that is corrected using a non-linear traveling speed based correction coefficient, the avoidance possibility determining section being further configured to set a control operation to determine whether the object that is determined to be in the front of the vehicle can be avoided by the at least one of steering and braking based on the vehicle behavior response characteristic determined by the vehicle behavior response characteristic determining section.