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Title:
ROUTE PREPARATION DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2011112627
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a route preparation device capable of reducing the preparation time of a running route.

The route preparation device 1 is a device for preparing a vehicle-running route from a starting point, up to a target point by sequentially connecting node-connecting segments. The route preparation device 1 includes a preparation part 16b for preparing a running route, by repeatedly implementing processing for setting a new node based on a point extracted from above a space at random until a node is set within a predetermined range from the target point and sequentially connecting the segments for connecting the set nodes; a means of detecting a vehicle status or a status around the vehicle, such as, an obstacle detector 11 and a white-line detector 12; and a probability determination part 16a for determining the probability with a target point as a point extracted at random.


Inventors:
NAGATA SHINICHI
Application Number:
JP2009272207A
Publication Date:
June 09, 2011
Filing Date:
November 30, 2009
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Assignee:
TOYOTA MOTOR CORP
International Classes:
G01C21/34; G08G1/16; B60R21/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2008023630A2008-02-07
JP2000020117A2000-01-21
JP2007531110A2007-11-01
JPH06131593A1994-05-13
JP2007237334A2007-09-20
JP2008105132A2008-05-08
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshiki Hasegawa
Yoshiki Kuroki
Hikaru Suzuki