| 摘要 |
An apparatus for controlling an automotive vehicle including an engine, and an automatic transmission including frictional coupling devices and having a plurality of operating positions having respective different speed ratios, which are selectively established by selective engaging and releasing actions of the frictional coupling devices, to transmit a rotary motion of the engine to drive wheels of the vehicle. The apparatus is operable upon generation of an engine-output control command requiring an output of the engine during a shift-up action of the transmission by the engaging action of a selected one of the frictional coupling devices initiated in the absence of the engine-output control command, and includes (a) a shifting-progress calculating portion operable to calculate a degree of progress of the shift-up action of the transmission after a moment of generation of the engine-output control command, on the basis of a change of a rotating speed of a rotary element ( 22 ) which changes with the progress of the shift-up action, and (b) a gradual-engine-torque-increase control portion operable to control the engine on the basis of the degree of progress of the shift-up action calculated by the shifting-progress calculating portion, so as to gradually increase an output torque of the engine with the progress of the shift-up action. |
