A vehicle control device includes an engine stop/start determination unit and an engine controller and a re-acceleration scene predicting unit. The engine stop/start determination unit determines stopping and starting of the engine based on a magnitude of the accelerator position opening amount unit. The engine controller carries out the stopping/starting of the engine in accordance with the determination of the engine stop/start determination unit. The re-acceleration scene predicting unit predicts a re-acceleration scene in which an accelerator is depressed after the accelerator has been released based on the accelerator position opening amount. When the re-acceleration scene predicting unit predicts a re-acceleration scene of the engine, the engine stop/start determination unit prohibits the stopping of the engine while the engine is running, and the starting of the engine is carried out by the accelerator being depressed while the engine is stopped.

The present invention provides a universal control device for controlling sensors and controllers incorporated in a separate room. The universal control device includes a control logic analyzer adapted to receive a control logic, decompose the control logic into at least one condition and at least one instruction, and identify at least one sensor for the condition(s) and at least one controller for the instruction(s) correspondingly; a control center adapted to retrieve data from the at least one identified sensor, determine whether the at least one condition is met or not based on the retrieved data, and send the at least one instruction to the at least one identified controller for execution when the at least one condition is met; and a uniform interface adapted to couple the sensors and the controllers to the universal control device, and implement communications between the universal control device and the sensors, and the controllers.

Example intelligent vehicle control methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, an intelligent vehicle control system obtains a driving mode, a driving style model, and a target speed of an intelligent vehicle at a current moment, then determines a speed control instruction based on the driving mode and the driving style model. The intelligent vehicle control system sends the speed control instruction to an execution system of the intelligent vehicle.

Example intelligent vehicle control methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, an intelligent vehicle control system obtains a driving mode, a driving style model, and a target speed of an intelligent vehicle at a current moment, then determines a speed control instruction based on the driving mode and the driving style model. The intelligent vehicle control system sends the speed control instruction to an execution system of the intelligent vehicle.

An overshoot of actual acceleration relative to target acceleration is suppressed in controlling acceleration of a vehicle by performing integral control. A vehicle control device includes: an actual acceleration recognition unit that recognizes actual acceleration of a vehicle; an integrated value calculation unit that calculates a time integrated value of a difference between predetermined target acceleration and the actual acceleration; a control instruction value setting unit that sets a control instruction value for a drive apparatus of the vehicle based on the time integrated value; and an integration processing limiting unit that limits calculation of the time integrated value performed by the integrated value calculation unit so that the time integrated value when a predetermined limiting condition is satisfied is smaller than that when the limiting condition is not satisfied.