VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM

To provide a vehicle control device and a vehicle control system for preventing a platoon from being disturbed during platoon traveling.SOLUTION: An ECU 10 is a vehicle control device controlling platoon traveling while a plurality of vehicles M1 to M4 travel in a platoon Co, and comprises: an acquisition section 11 for acquiring a condition of a vehicle surrounding the plurality of vehicles M1 to M4 based on an image result with a camera 101 of a drone 100 flying surroundings of the plurality of vehicles M1 to M4; a determination section 12 for determining whether or not the surrounding vehicle can cut in between two vehicles M included in the plurality of vehicles M1 to M4 in accordance with a condition of the surrounding vehicle acquired by the acquisition section 11; and a vehicle control section 13 for shortening each of distances between the plurality of vehicles M1 to M4 when the determination section 12 determines that the surrounding vehicle can cut in.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】隊列走行時において隊列が乱れることを回避すること。【解決手段】ＥＣＵ１０は、複数の車両Ｍ１〜Ｍ４が隊列Ｃｏを組みながら走行する隊列走行を制御する車両制御装置であって、複数の車両Ｍ１〜Ｍ４の周囲を飛行するドローン１００のカメラ１０１による撮像結果に基づき、複数の車両Ｍ１〜Ｍ４の周囲の車両の状況を取得する取得部１１と、取得部１１によって取得された周囲の車両の状況に応じて、複数の車両Ｍ１〜Ｍ４に含まれる２台の車両Ｍ間に周囲の車両が進入し得るか否かを判定する判定部１２と、判定部１２によって周囲の車両が進入し得ると判定された場合に、複数の車両Ｍ１〜Ｍ４間の距離を縮める車両制御部１３と、を備える。【選択図】図２