Patent ID: 8165753
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle operation assisting system that assists a collision avoidance operation which a driver performs to avoid collision with an obstacle during traveling of a vehicle, comprising: a standard yaw rate calculating device configured to calculate a standard yaw rate of the vehicle; a collision avoidance operation determining device configured to determine the collision avoidance operation by the driver; an obstacle detecting device configured to detect an obstacle with which the vehicle has a possibility of colliding; an avoidance momentum calculating device configured to calculate an avoidance momentum necessary for avoiding the obstacle detected by the obstacle detecting device when the collision avoidance operation determining device determines the collision avoidance operation by the driver, the avoidance momentum comprising a target lateral moving distance; a standard yaw rate correcting device configured to correct the standard yaw rate calculated by the standard yaw rate calculating device with the avoidance momentum calculated by the avoidance momentum calculating device; a target assist electrical current calculating device configured to calculate a target assist electrical current, which is supplied to a steering actuator, based on a yaw rate deviation that is a deviation between the corrected standard yaw rate and an actual yaw rate; a correcting device configured to reduce the target assist electrical current when an absolute value of the yaw rate deviation is not more than a threshold, and that, when the collision avoidance operation determining device determines the collision avoidance operation by the driver, sets a reduction amount of the target assist electrical current to be smaller than when it does not determine the collision avoidance operation.