Vehicle controller and control method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSeiji Kuwahara, Masayuki Baba
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Abstract
An ECU executes a program including the steps of: detecting an accelerator position based on a signal transmitted from an accelerator position sensor 8010; calculating current driving force actually output from a vehicle; estimating a driving force expected by the driver, in accordance with the accelerator position and the current driving force actually output from the vehicle; determining a target throttle opening position so that difference between the driving force expected by the driver and the current driving force actually output by the vehicle becomes smaller, and controlling an electronic valve 8016.
Claims9
A vehicle controller, comprising:
- a sensor detecting an amount of operation of an accelerator pedal;
- and
- a control unit;
- said control unit
- calculating a first driving force output from the vehicle,
- estimating a second driving force expected by a driver in accordance with said first driving force and said amount of operation of the accelerator pedal, and
- controlling the driving force of said vehicle in accordance with said second driving force.
A method of controlling a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- detecting an amount of operation of an accelerator pedal;
- calculating a first driving force output from the vehicle;
- estimating a second driving force expected by a driver, in accordance with said first driving force and said amount of operation of said accelerator pedal;
- and
- controlling the driving force of said vehicle in accordance with the second driving force.
A vehicle controller, comprising:
- means for detecting an amount of operation of an accelerator pedal;
- means for calculating a first driving force output by the vehicle;
- estimating means for estimating a second driving force expected by a driver, in accordance with said first driving force and said amount of operation of said accelerator pedal;
- and
- control means for controlling the driving force of said vehicle in accordance with said second driving force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.