Vehicle control device

A vehicle control device comprising:

• a carrier member that is mounted in a vehicle so as to be movable relative to a vehicle body and on which an occupant sits or lies;
• an active suspension disposed between the carrier member and the vehicle body and configured to change a carrier attitude that is a relative attitude of the carrier member with respect to the vehicle body;
• a state detection device configured to detect state information that is information on current or future acceleration applied to the carrier member;
• a controller configured to control the active suspension based on the state information to change the carrier attitude;
• and
• an occupant information acquisition device configured to acquire occupant information that is information on an affected area that is an abnormal part of the body of the occupant on the carrier member, wherein;
• the controller is configured to calculate a controlled variable in at least one of following directions for the active suspension based on the state information:
• a vertical direction, a roll direction, and a pitch direction;
• the controlled variable includes in an arithmetic expression a plurality of control terms each including a gain;
• and
• the controller is configured to correct the gain of at least one of the control terms based on the affected area when there is the abnormality in the body of the occupant.