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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2021
Subaru Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Chihiro Oguro, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus for an electric vehicle includes a requested torque calculator, a command torque calculator, and a driving controller. The requested torque calculator is configured to calculate requested torque. The command torque calculator includes a change rate adjuster configured to adjust respective upper limit change rates of left command torque and right command torque that follow the requested torque. The change rate adjuster is configured to, on the basis of a predetermined operation of turning back a steering angle performed on a steering unit of the electric vehicle, lower the upper limit change rate of a driving wheel, serving as an inner wheel among left and right driving wheels of the electric vehicle before turning back the steering angle, than the upper limit change rate of the driving wheel, serving as an outer wheel among the left and the right driving wheels before turning back the steering angle.