Control apparatus for vehicle

Abstract

A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes (i) right and left front wheels, (ii) a front-wheel drive apparatus which is configured to drive the front wheels, (iii) right and left rear wheels and (iv) a rear-wheel drive apparatus which is provided independently of the front-wheel drive apparatus and which is configured to drive the rear wheels. The control apparatus includes (a) a pitch-angular-speed calculator configured to calculate an angular speed of a vehicle body that is a body of the vehicle, in a pitch direction of the vehicle body; and (b) a drive controller configured to change a driving force of the front wheels and a driving force of the rear wheels, based on the angular speed of the vehicle body in the pitch direction, for suppressing a posture change of the vehicle body in the pitch direction while keeping a total driving force of the vehicle unchanged.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.