Vehicle control system

Abstract

To achieve shock reduction and acceleration or deceleration response improvement during backlash elimination in gears of a power transmission mechanism when a vehicle transitions from deceleration to acceleration or from acceleration to deceleration, a vehicle control system includes a motor that generates torque for driving the vehicle, a power transmission mechanism configured to transmit the torque of the motor to a driving wheel of the vehicle through a plurality of gears, and a control device configured to control the torque of the motor. The control device is configured to control the motor to increase the torque of the motor in a stepwise manner within a range less than a predetermined value greater than zero when backlash elimination in the plurality of gears of the power transmission mechanism starts when the vehicle transitions from a deceleration state to an acceleration state.

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