JPH07306053A - Control device for vehicle-mounted equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a control device for a vehicle-mounted equipment which can correctly detect the entry of the vehicle to a road facility having a ceiling, e.g. a tunnel or a tollgate. CONSTITUTION:The device is provided with a current position-operating means 1 for operating a current position of its own vehicle, a map data memory means 2 for storing road map data, an approach-detecting means 3 for detect.ing an approach to a road facility with a ceiling from the road map dat,a based on the operated current position of the vehicle, and a ceiling-detecting means 4 for detecting the ceiling of the road facility and outputting a detection signal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted device control device for controlling a device mounted on a vehicle according to a road facility.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a control device of this type, information such as the slope of a road on which a vehicle travels, the road surface condition, the radius of a curve, etc. has been stored in advance, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-15799. Road information storage means, a sensor for detecting the current position and traveling direction of this vehicle, and road information in the traveling direction from the current position of this vehicle, read from the storage means, and a basic operation amount for controlling each part of the vehicle. There is known a vehicle control device including a control unit that adds a correction according to the road information.

Further, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-52579, a driving support device mounted on a vehicle, a current position calculation means for calculating the current position of the vehicle, and a map information storage means for storing road map information. And a detection means for detecting whether or not the vehicle is traveling on an automobile exclusive road from the road map information based on the calculated vehicle present location, and the detection means detects that the vehicle is traveling on a vehicle other than the automobile exclusive road. In this case, there is known a vehicle driving support control device including an operation prohibiting unit that prohibits the operation of the driving support device.

[0004]

As described above, the conventional control device compares the current position of the vehicle calculated by the current position calculation means with the road map information of the map information storage means to drive the vehicle. Since it is configured to determine the shape of the road being operated and perform control according to the road shape, the accuracy of the current position of the vehicle calculated by the current position calculating means and the precision of the road map information are If it is bad, there is a difference between the road form determined by collating the road map information and the actual road form, and optimal vehicle control cannot be performed. The position error of the vehicle caused by such a difference is 30 m to 15 m
It is about 0 m, and cannot be applied to in-vehicle device control devices that require the window opening and closing position to be 10 m or less with respect to the position of the toll gate, such as a device that automatically controls opening and closing of windows at road toll gates. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and can accurately detect entry into a road facility having a ceiling such as a tunnel or a tollgate.
An object of the present invention is to obtain an in-vehicle device control device capable of performing optimum control suitable for an actual road form.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an in-vehicle device control device, a current position calculating means for calculating a current vehicle position, a map information storing means for storing road map information, and the calculated vehicle. Based on the present location, from the road map information, an approach detection means for detecting an approach to a road facility having a ceiling, and a ceiling detection means for detecting the ceiling of the road facility and outputting a detection signal. is there.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an on-vehicle equipment control device according to the first aspect, wherein the vehicle window is opened / closed based on the output signals of the approach detection means and the ceiling detection means. To control.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an in-vehicle device control device according to the first aspect, wherein the vehicle lighting device is turned on based on the output signals of the approach detection means and the ceiling detection means. Is to control.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an in-vehicle device control device according to the first aspect, wherein the ceiling detecting means is a laser radar device.

Further, an on-vehicle equipment control device according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is the on-vehicle equipment control device according to the first aspect,
The braking control device for the vehicle is controlled based on the output signals of the approach detection means and the ceiling detection means.

[0011]

According to the on-vehicle device control apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, the approach detection means calculates the tunnel from road map information based on the vehicle current position calculated by the current position calculation means.
When the ceiling is detected by the ceiling detection means after detecting the approach to the road facility with a ceiling such as a tollgate, it is determined that the tunnel or the road facility with a ceiling such as a tollgate has entered.

According to the on-vehicle device control apparatus of the second aspect of the present invention, when the approach detecting means and the ceiling detecting means determine entry into, for example, a toll gate as a road facility having a ceiling, the vehicle Window opening / closing control is performed.

According to the on-vehicle device control apparatus of the third aspect of the present invention, when the approach detecting means and the ceiling detecting means judge entry into, for example, a tunnel as a road facility having a ceiling, the illumination of the vehicle. The lighting of the device is controlled.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a vehicle-mounted device control apparatus, wherein the ceiling detecting means is a laser radar.
Detect the ceiling.

According to the on-vehicle device control apparatus of the fifth aspect of the present invention, when the approach detecting means and the ceiling detecting means determine entry into, for example, a toll gate as a road facility having a ceiling, the vehicle The braking control device is controlled.

[0016]

【Example】

Example 1. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a radio navigation device including a GPS receiver or the like, or a dead reckoning device including a gyro sensor, a vehicle speed sensor, and the like. The map information storage means 3 stores the national major road map, and the reference numeral 3 is a road such as a tunnel or a toll gate based on the vehicle current location calculated by the current location calculation means 1 based on the road map information from the map information storage means 2. It is an approach detection means for detecting whether or not the facility is approaching. The present location calculation means 1, the map information storage means 2, the approach detection means 3, and 3 can also be configured by a known on-vehicle navigation device.

Further, in FIG. 1, reference numeral 4 is a ceiling detecting means for detecting the ceiling of a road facility having a ceiling such as a tunnel or a toll gate, and is composed of a laser radar device for detecting the distance to the ceiling. Reference numeral 5 is an entry determination means for inputting the output signal of the approach detection means 3 and the detection signal of the ceiling detection means 4 to determine the entry of the vehicle into a tunnel, a tollgate, or the like, and 6 is a well-known in-vehicle device control device. It is composed of a window opening / closing control device 7, a braking control device 8, a lighting control device 9, and the like.

In the above configuration, as shown in FIG. 2, for example, after the approach detection means 3 detects that the vehicle 10 is approaching the toll gate 11 on the road, the ceiling mounted on the vehicle 10 is detected. When the means 4 detects the ceiling 12 of the tollgate 11, the approach determination means 5 determines that the vehicle 10 is the tollgate 11.
When it is judged that the driver has entered, the window opening / closing control device 7 is operated to open the window so that the driver can pay the fare. At the same time, the braking control device 8 is operated to reduce the speed of the host vehicle 10 to a predetermined value or less, thereby facilitating the driver's stop operation at the tollgate 11.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, after the approach detecting means 3 detects that the vehicle 10 is approaching the tunnel 13, the ceiling detecting means 4 detects the entrance end 14 of the ceiling of the tunnel 13. Then, the approach determining means 5 determines that the own vehicle 1
It is determined that 0 has entered the tunnel 13, and the lighting control device 9
To turn on the headlamp. And own vehicle 1
When 0 approaches the exit of the tunnel 13 and reaches the exit end 15 of the ceiling where the ceiling detection unit 4 does not detect the ceiling of the tunnel 13, the entry determination unit 5 turns off the headlamp via the illumination control device 9. In this way, the headlamps are turned on automatically just before entering the tunnel 13,
Further, the headlamp can be automatically turned off at the exit of the tunnel 13, and the troublesomeness of the driver to turn on and off can be eliminated.

[0020]

The on-vehicle device control apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention is based on the present position calculating means for calculating the present position of the vehicle, the map information storing means for storing road map information, and the calculated present position of the vehicle. Since the vehicle includes the approach detection means for detecting the approach to the road facility having a ceiling from the road map information and the ceiling detection means for detecting the ceiling of the road facility and outputting a detection signal, It is possible to accurately detect entry into a road facility with a ceiling, such as a toll booth, or an entrance into a road facility with a ceiling. The effect that it can control is produced.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an in-vehicle device control apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the vehicle window is opened / closed based on the output signals of the approach detection means and the ceiling detection means. Since the control is performed, there is an effect that the driver does not need to open the window at a tollgate or the like.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided an in-vehicle device control device according to the first aspect, wherein the vehicle lighting device is turned on based on the output signals of the approach detection means and the ceiling detection means. Since it is controlled, there is an effect that the driver does not need to turn on the illumination lamp in a tunnel or the like.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an in-vehicle device control device according to the first aspect, wherein the ceiling detecting means is a laser radar device, so that the ceiling can be easily detected. Done.

Further, an on-vehicle equipment control device according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is the on-vehicle equipment control device according to the first aspect,
Since the braking control device of the vehicle is controlled based on the output signals of the approach detection means and the ceiling detection means, it is easy to stop the vehicle at a tollgate, for example.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an in-vehicle device control device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a state in which a vehicle equipped with the in-vehicle device control device of the present invention has entered a tollgate.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a state in which a vehicle equipped with the in-vehicle device control device of the present invention enters a tunnel.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 present location calculation means, 2 map information storage means, 3 approach detection means, 4 ceiling detection means, 5 entry determination means, 6
In-vehicle equipment control device, 10 own vehicle, 11 tollgate, 12
Ceiling, 13 tunnels.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A current position calculating means for calculating the current vehicle position, a map information storage means for storing road map information, and a road facility having a ceiling from the road map information based on the calculated current vehicle position. An in-vehicle device control device comprising: an approach detection unit that detects an approach; and a ceiling detection unit that detects the ceiling of the road facility and outputs a detection signal. 2. The in-vehicle device control device according to claim 1, wherein opening and closing of a window of the vehicle is controlled based on output signals of the approach detecting means and the ceiling detecting means. 3. The in-vehicle device control device according to claim 1, wherein lighting of a lighting device of the vehicle is controlled based on output signals of the approach detection means and the ceiling detection means. 4. The vehicle-mounted device control device according to claim 1, wherein the ceiling detection means is constituted by a laser radar device. 5. The in-vehicle device control device according to claim 1, wherein the braking control device for the vehicle is controlled based on the output signals of the approach detection means and the ceiling detection means.