PURPOSE:To contrive a driving force control matching the characteristic of the driver at all times regardless of his condition of awareness or driving circumstances and make such control a continuous one covering all operating range such as accelerator pedal. CONSTITUTION:A neuro-computer 22 learns the relation between the operating amount (accelerator stroke) of an accelerator pedal 10 and acceleration against the vehicle speed as 'requested acceleration model', which a driver DR is requesting, using the acceleration of a vehicle 1 obtained from an acceleration sensor 12 as an educator to be compared with. Taking the deviation between the output of the 'requested acceleration model' and the acceleration as an erroneous signal, the relation between the accelerator stroke and the throttle opening against the vehicle speed is learnt as a 'throttle sensitivity model'. A throttle computer 21 controls the output of an engine 2 and thereby controls the driving force of the vehicle 1 by driving a DC motor 8 and opening and closing a throttle valve 7 in response to the operation of the accelerator pedal 10 using output of the 'throttle sensitivity model' as its reference data.
VEHICLE DRIVING FORCE CONTROL DEVICE