Patent ID: 8155843
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: B60R,B60W,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control apparatus comprising: a mode setting unit provided independently from a plurality of control units that control behavior of systems to be controlled which are mounted on a vehicle, every one of functional domains of the vehicle realized by the systems, and formed to set a vehicle mode depending on a vehicle environment in which the vehicle is present; and a control adjusting unit provided independently from the control units, wherein: the mode setting unit and the control adjusting unit are provided independently from a coordination control unit that controls coordination dependent on the behavior controls performed by the plurality of control units, the control adjusting unit adjusts the coordinated control performed by the coordination control units based on the vehicle mode, and includes a resource managing unit that manages resources used by the control units and the coordination control unit based on the vehicle mode and a resource distribution instruction given by the coordination control unit, the resource distribution instruction giving an instruction to distribute the resources among the control units based on the vehicle mode, and the resource managing unit manages the resources based on remaining amounts of the resources, in which the remaining amounts are predicted every one of a plurality of types of time spans which are different from each other.