A traveling control apparatus for a vehicle that travels by transmitting force of a driving motor to tires is provided, including: a relaxation length calculation unit that calculates a relaxation length of the tires in a longitudinal direction as a moving distance required until a lateral force reaches a steady-state value when a slip angle is present in the tires; and a slip rate calculation unit that divides a deviation length of a deformation of the tires in the longitudinal direction, by the relaxation length calculated at the relaxation length calculation unit, thereby calculating a slip rate indicating a degree of slip between the tires and a road surface.

The invention concerns a method for optimization of the energy consumption of a motor vehicle (2) comprising a fuel or hydrogen tank, a battery and/or super-capacitors (30), a thermal engine (M) or a fuel cell (P), an electrical machine (ME), a plurality of devices, each characterized by at least one variable of state, and a computer (4) configured to control the traction chain of the motor vehicle (2) over a predetermined distance, and being able to control the thermal engine (M) or the fuel cell (P), the electrical machine (ME) and/or the devices by the emission of a series of set-points. The invention also concerns a computer (4) and a computer program product for implementation of such a method, as well as a motor vehicle (2) comprising such a computer (4).

A number of variations are disclosed including a system and method for modifying, in real-time, at least one brake or powertrain application to individual roadwheels of a vehicle to increase lateral maneuver capability in a vehicle having an operational, partially operational, failing, or failed electronic steering system. The system and method may include modifying at least one brake or powertrain command to individual roadwheels where vehicle instability is detected.

A computer system and a computer-implemented method for issuing control data for controlling a power system of a vehicle. The method includes: identifying a driving event and power demand, obtaining power system operating information, comprising operating temperatures, of each one of the first and second electric motors, and determining a temperature difference indicative of a difference between the first and the second electric motors' operating temperatures, in response to the identified power demand being below a power demand threshold level, determining that a condition for the single-motor operating mode is fulfilled, on the basis of the temperature difference, selecting an electric motor amongst the first and second electric motors to be connected to the drive shaft for the single motor operating mode, and issuing the control data to control the power system to be operated under the single-motor operating mode.

[Solution] A vehicle, ship, construction machinery, robot, etc., can conserve fuel and extend its travel distance by repeatedly cutting off energy (gasoline, batteries, etc.) to generate inertia force, running by this inertia force, adding energy again before the running speed reaches zero, and then cutting off energy again.

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.

A control device for a vehicle, includes: a drive force acquisition unit that acquires a drive force which the vehicle is applying to a road surface; an acceleration acquisition unit that acquires an acceleration along a travel direction of the vehicle; an angle calculation unit that calculates a trajectory angle which is an angle between a trajectory of a rotation center axis of a wheel of the vehicle and the road surface, based on the drive force and the acceleration.

A control device of a hybrid vehicle having an engine and an electric motor, being capable of series hybrid driving and engine direct driving using the engine and the electric motor, and having a NOx purification system using an SCR and an LNT in an exhaust passage of the engine, the control device comprising: an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality in the NOx purification system related to the LNT; and a driving state control unit that, when the abnormality is detected, prohibits the engine direct driving of the vehicle and limits to the series hybrid driving, and drives the engine at an approximately constant engine output such that the engine output is equal to or greater than a predetermined value within an output range in which NOx emission from the engine does not exceed NOx purification possible amount of the NOx purification system using the SCR.

A controller of a hybrid vehicle performs an area driving support control that switches to a motor driving mode and performs motor driving when driving in a motor driving area that has been set in advance as an area where the motor should drive. The controller is programmed to stop the area driving support control and to drive in a normal driving mode when a driving mode selection switch is operated while driving in the motor driving area by the area driving support control.

The invention relates to an electrically operable final drive powertrain (1) of a motor vehicle, comprising an electric machine (3) which can be coupled to: at least one vehicle wheel (4) of the motor vehicle; and a transmission assembly (5) arranged in the torque flow between the vehicle w heel (4) and the electric machine (3); and a brake device (6) by means of which the vehicle wheel (4) can be braked; wherein: in the torque flow between the electric machine (3) and the brake device (6), a first clutch device (7) is arranged, by means of which the brake device (6) can be coupled into and coupled out of the torque flow, and, in the torque flow between the electric machine (3) and the transmission assembly (5), a second clutch device (8) is arranged, by means of which the transmission assembly (5) can be coupled into and coupled out of the torque flow; or, in the torque flow between the electric machine (3) and the brake device (6), a first clutchdevice (7) is arranged, by means of which the brake device (6) can be coupled into and coupled out of the torque flow, and, in the torque flow between the brake device (6) and the transmission assembly (5), a second clutch device (8) is arranged, by means of which the transmission assembly (5) can be coupled into and coupled out of the torque flow.