VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD

A vehicle control device is provided. The vehicle control device may identify, based on object recognition information received from a sensor of a host vehicle: target vehicle information describing a target vehicle within a threshold distance from the host vehicle; and a shape of a road that the host vehicle is traveling; generate, based on the target vehicle information and the shape of the road, a first route and a second route for the host vehicle; determine, based on the target vehicle information, a probability score of a successful lane change of the host vehicle; generate, based on the probability score of the successful lane change, a vehicle control signal for controlling an operation of the host vehicle for each of the first route and the second route; and control, based on the vehicle control signal, the operation of the host vehicle.