Control system for an automotive vehicle having apparatus for predicting the driving environment of the vehicle

摘要

A total control system for an automotive vehicle assures vehicular behavior precisely following to a driver's demand for variation of driving environment and provide smooth transition in variation of the driving environment. The system includes a driving environment index predicting section predicting vehicular driving environment on the basis of a driving operation indicative amount, such as an accelerator depression magnitude, a brake depression magnitude, a steering angular position and so forth and a vehicular condition indicative amount, such as an engine speed, a vehicle speed, a longitudinal acceleration and so forth. Based on the driving environment index derived by the predicting section, local control channels of the automotive vehicle are controlled. The driving environment index predicting section predicts the driving environment index by neural network or so forth to transfer to the local control channels though a vehicular local area network or a common memory. Accordingly, variable control corresponding to the driving environment in the local control channels can be realized.