A control device of a motor driven vehicle, comprising:
- an inverter that extracts a direct current from a battery of a vehicle configured to travel by rotational driving of a motor, generates a phase current, and drives the motor,
- a vehicle control module that generates a torque command signal to drive the motor in accordance with a driver's operation, and
- a control unit that controls an extraction of the direct current from the battery by the inverter, based on a temperature of the battery, wherein
- the vehicle control module sends the torque command signal to the control unit,
- the control unit controls the inverter to extract a pulse-like direct current from the battery, in case where the temperature of the battery is below a predetermined temperature at which a motor drivable power is continuously extractable,
- the control unit controls the inverter in the extraction of the pulse-like direct current to cyclically repeat an on-period to extract the motor drivable direct current from the battery and an off-period in which, after the on-period, the power is not extracted from the battery until the motor drivable direct current becomes extractable from the battery again, and the control unit calculates a maximum torque that the motor is capable of outputting in case where the pulse-like direct current is extracted from the battery, compares the maximum torque with the torque command signal, sets a smaller one of the maximum torque and the torque command signal as a torque target value to drive the motor, and controls the extraction of the pulse-like direct current by the inverter to drive the motor at the torque target value, and
- the inverter converts, to the phase current, the pulse-like direct current extracted from the battery in the on-period.