Control system for automotive vehicle for controlling vehicle driving behavior with feature of harmonization of vehicular driving condition dependent control and driver's driving tendency adapted control

A control system for an automotive vehicle for controlling vehicular component, comprising:

• first means for monitoring preselected vehicle driving parameters for producing a vehicle driving parameter indicative signals;
• second means for deriving a first control signal on the basis of said parameter indicative signals according to a preset common control schedule which defines operating modes of said vehicular component in relation to vehicular driving condition represented by said control parameter;
• third means for accepting manual entry of command for selecting operational mode of said vehicular component and learning vehicular driving conditions at entry of said manually entered command as a personal unique data reflecting driver's preference;
• fourth means for detecting said control parameter indicative signals representing vehicular driving condition coincidence with learnt condition for recollecting manually commanded operational mode and for producing a second control signal;
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• fifth means for selectively supplying one of said first and second control signals to said vehicular component for controlling operation thereof, said control signal supplying means outputting said first control signal while absence of said second control signal and outputs said second control signal while said second control signal present.

A shift control system for an automotive automatic power transmission comprising:

• an automatic power transmission unit having electrically operably shift control means for selectingly estabilishing one of a plurality of transmission speed ratio;
• a sensor means for monitoring vehicle driving parameter associated with transmission speed ratio selection for producing a vehicle driving condition indicatvie parameter signal;
• a shift pattern storage means storing a plurality of preset shift patterns which are set in terms of the vehicle driving parameter;
• a manual selector means for manual entry of a pattern selector command for manually selecting one of a plurality of shift patterns in said shift pattern storage means;
• a neural network responsive to said manually entered pattern selector command for learning condition of said vehicle driving conditions based on said vehicle driving condition indicative parameter signal and updating storage therein;
• a controller means for detecting vehicle driving condition based on the vehicle driving condition indicative parameter signal, comparing the detected vehicle driving condition with learnt vehicle driving conditions, recollecting one of commands stored in said neural network when the detected vehicle driving condition coincidence with the learnt vehicle driving condition, and otherwise selecting one of a plurality of shift pattern according to a predetermined shift pattern selecting schedule, and performing shift control by controlling operation of said shift control means according to the selected shift pattern.