Damping control apparatus for vehicle

A damping control apparatus for a vehicle having an acceleration detection device for detecting an acceleration of a vehicle body for a vibration mode of the vehicle body to be damped, actuators for generating forces acting between the vehicle body and wheels, and a control unit for controlling the actuators, and the control unit stores an equivalent mass of an inerter, a damping coefficient of a damper and a spring constant of a spring of a skyhook device that skyhooks a sprung mass of a single wheel vehicle model for the vibration mode via the inerter, the damper and the spring, wherein

• the control unit is configured to:
• calculate, as a target damping force to be applied to the sprung mass with respect to the vibration mode, a value obtained by multiplying by a control gain a sum of a product of an acceleration detected by the acceleration detection device and the equivalent mass of the inerter, a product of a once integrated value of the acceleration and the damping coefficient of the damper, a product of a twice integrated value of the acceleration and the spring constant of the spring;
• calculate a target generative force of each actuator based on the target damping force;
• and control each, actuator so that a force generated by the actuator becomes the corresponding target generative force.