A system for controlling torque of a vehicle, such as an eco-friendly vehicle, can improve steering control performance. The system includes a first controller configured to change coast regeneration torque of the vehicle according to whether wheel lock of the vehicle has occurred and whether the vehicle is steerable.

A method of controlling a vehicle is disclosed, the method comprising steps of: determining a saturated reference yaw moment based on an initial reference yaw moment and a total wheel torque demand, taking into account operational limits of the vehicle; determining initial torque allocations for each one of a plurality of wheels of the electric vehicle based on the saturated reference yaw moment; and for each one of the plurality of wheels, checking whether the initial torque allocation for said wheel exceeds a corresponding wheel torque limit for said wheel. In response to a determination that the initial torque allocation for a first wheel exceeds the corresponding wheel torque limit, and that the initial torque allocation for a second wheel on the same side of the vehicle is less than the corresponding wheel torque limit, the initial torque allocations are revised by increasing the torque allocation to the second wheel. The electric vehicle can then be controlled to apply the revised torque allocations to the plurality of wheels. Apparatus for controlling a vehicle is also disclosed.

A method for operating a brake system for a motor vehicle, wherein the brake system comprises an eddy current brake mechanically coupled to at least one wheel of the motor vehicle for providing a braking force acting on the wheel, wherein an electric machine is mechanically coupled or can be coupled to the wheel and is electrically connected to the eddy current brake. In this case, it is provided that, in an emergency braking mode for braking the wheel, the eddy current brake is supplied in parallel with energy provided by means of the electric machine operating as a generator and with electrical energy taken from an energy accumulator. The disclosure furthermore relates to a brake system for a motor vehicle.

A method of controlling the hybrid vehicle in which electric power of the battery and electric power generated by an electric generator are supplied to a drive device, a running load of the drive motor is estimated on the basis of the driver's requirement, and a first distance to empty that allows for running in a state where the estimated running load is fulfilled is calculated on the basis of an amount of charge remaining in the battery and an amount of fuel remaining used to drive the fuel cell. Then, a required running distance is estimated on the basis of the driver's requirement, and, on the basis of the first distance to empty and the required running distance, a necessary energy replenishment operation is notified to the driver.

A control apparatus for a vehicle includes: a decider; and a rotation speed controller. The decider is configured to decide on a basis of a traveling state of the vehicle that a wheel which is spun is coupled to a drive source to increase a number of driving wheels. The rotation speed controller is configured to decide increase a rotation speed of the drive source in advance in accordance with an information of a vehicle behavior unstableness degree which is acquired from an outside of the vehicle before the wheel is coupled to the drive source.

An acceleration slip regulation method includes determining a current control phase of a vehicle in an acceleration slip regulation state, determining a current road surface adhesion coefficient of the vehicle, determining, based on the current control phase and the current road surface adhesion coefficient, maximum torque allowed by a road surface, obtaining demand torque received by a drive motor of the vehicle and a wheel slip rate of the vehicle, and outputting adaptive feedforward torque for acceleration slip regulation based on the maximum torque allowed by the road surface, the demand torque, and the wheel slip rate, where the adaptive feedforward torque is used to perform the acceleration slip regulation on the vehicle.

A method for inertia drive control is provided. The method includes performing advanced inertia drive control by an inertia drive controller. The controller detects a speed reduction event during road driving of a vehicle, lane division together with road type division for a road, and performs inertia drive control guide and the inertia drive control based on drive conditions of lane change and lane maintenance.

A regenerative control device is provided with a host ECU configured to set a required amount of wheel regeneration that is an amount of wheel regeneration required for each wheel of a vehicle based on the required regeneration amount that is an amount of regeneration required in regenerative control that converts kinetic energy into electric energy depending on traveling conditions of a vehicle, and a regeneration controller configured to switch a wheel to be regenerative-controlled in a regeneration performance period shorter than a predicted vehicle behavior-appearance period from the start of regeneration in each wheel of the vehicle to the appearance of the behavior of the vehicle, that is, a period predicted based on the required amount of wheel regeneration and a vehicle speed, and control an actual amount of wheel regeneration for each wheel to the required amount of wheel regeneration.

A drive control apparatus is applied to a drive system that is mounted to a vehicle, drives wheels of the vehicle by a motor, and brakes the wheels by a brake apparatus. The drive control apparatus determines a road-surface state of a travel road of the vehicle. The drive control apparatus suppresses slipping of the vehicle by correcting a drive torque by correcting at least either of a motor torque and a brake torque. When determined that the drive torque is to be corrected, the drive control apparatus adjusts a correction amount of the drive torque by adjusting the motor torque with higher priority than the brake torque in response to be determined that the road-surface state is rough.

Electric trolley includes safety controller that determines whether or not to stop the driving of driving wheel, and driving commander that outputs, to the motor driver, (i) an operation permission signal for permitting motor to be operated and (ii) a control signal for controlling an operation of motor, in which safety controller performs control to stop inputs of the operation permission signal and the control signal to motor driver when the safety controller determines to stop the driving of driving wheel.