Patent ID: 7734418

Claim:
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 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 being 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, the standard yaw rate correcting device correcting the standard yaw rate to be larger as an amount of difficulty for the vehicle to avoid the obstacle becomes larger; 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 deviation between the corrected standard yaw rate and an actual yaw rate; and a target assist electrical current restricting device configured to restrict an upper limit value of the target assist electrical current which is calculated by the target assist electrical current calculating device in accordance with steering torque inputted into a steering wheel by the driver, and in accordance with the collision avoidance operation by the driver determined by the collision avoidance operation determining device.