A vehicle travel control device includes a surrounding environment recognition device that acquires surrounding environment information on a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a vehicle state recognition device that acquires state information on a state of the vehicle; and a travel control unit that performs travel control of the vehicle, based on the surrounding environment information or the state information. When the vehicle state recognition device detects a slip of at least one drive wheel of the vehicle, the vehicle travel control device executes brake LSD control for braking the at least one drive wheel. When the surrounding environment recognition device recognizes snow on a traveling road of the vehicle and a snow melting area and a snow non-melting area ahead, the travel control unit switches an operation mode of the brake LSD control from a first mode to a second mode.

Method and apparatus are disclosed for traction control based on friction coefficient estimation. An example vehicle includes a plurality of sensors to measure qualities of a surface of a road and an anti-lock brake system module. The anti-lock brake system module (a) estimates confidence values for different road surface types based on the qualities of the surface of the road, (b) estimates a coefficient of friction between the road and tires of the vehicle based on the confidence values, and (c) adapt a traction control system by altering a target slip based on the coefficient of friction.

A method for automatically adapting a traction control of a vehicle. The method includes: receiving current state variables of the vehicle, each of which indicates a current state of the vehicle; determining a control action using a traction controller based on the received current state variables, wherein the control action includes increasing, maintaining, or decreasing a control variable including a torque of a motor and/or a pressure of a brake cylinder; determining a control gradient of the control variable using a value matrix which includes a plurality of parameters each assigned to current value matrix state variables of the vehicle, wherein the control gradient is selected from the plurality of parameters as a function of the current value matrix state variables which include the current value matrix state variables; carrying out the traction control of the vehicle.