Patent ID: 8155879
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: B60T,B60W,B62D

Abstract:
1. A vehicle driving assistance apparatus comprising: a brake operation sensing device configured to sense a driver's brake operation of a vehicle; a steering operation sensing device configured to sense a driver's steering operation of the vehicle; a forward sensing device configured to sense an obstacle ahead of the vehicle; and a controller configured to determine whether there is a need for avoiding the obstacle, by examining a possibility of contact of the vehicle with the obstacle sensed by the forward sensing device, wherein the controller is also configured to produce a yaw moment of the vehicle to turn the vehicle toward an obstacle avoiding direction advantageous for avoiding the obstacle, during a time interval from a time of detection of the driver's brake operation by the brake operation sensing device, to a time of detection of the driver's steering operation by the steering operation sensing device, by adjusting a wheel brake/drive force distribution due to the driver's brake operation when the need for avoiding the obstacle is confirmed.