Automatic driving apparatus

Details Automatic driving apparatus Automatic driving apparatus

1996-08-27

1998-06-09

Ip, Paul

Electricity: motive power systems

Positional servo systems

Vehicular guidance systems with single axis control

3185681, 318139, 180 791, 180142, B62D 100, B62D 504, G06F 1550

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ABSTRACT:
In an automatic driving apparatus, a storage unit is responsive to a storing mode signal for storing as model driving data steering and running states of the vehicle corresponding to elapsed time in a storing mode. In response to an automatic driving mode signal, a setting unit compares the steering and running states stored in the storage unit and steering and running states of the vehicle detected in an automatic driving mode so as to set at least one automatic steering state data. In the automatic driving mode, the model driving data stored in the storage unit can be reproduced with the vehicle's steering system set to an automatically operating state, and the vehicle can be steered automatically in accordance with the model driving data, so that highly convenient, efficient and reliable automatic driving are achieved in automatic garaging of the vehicle etc. with a simple structure that would otherwise require high-level skill of the vehicle driver. The apparatus further includes an electric power steering apparatus that is used for controlling steering of the vehicle on the basis of the automatic steering state data supplied by the setting unit. The use of the electric power steering apparatus substantially simplifies the structure of the automatic driving apparatus.

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