Patent ID: 6928361

Claim:
A control apparatus for a motor vehicle, in which each of a plurality of output values of the vehicle varies depending upon a plurality of input control parameters for controlling the vehicle, comprising: an adaptive control unit that changes the plurality of input control parameters so that each of the plurality of output values becomes substantially equal to a corresponding target output value; an adapted value setting unit that determines adapted values of the input control parameters, based on values of the input control parameters obtained when each of the output values becomes substantially equal to the corresponding target output value or falls within a permissible adaptation range of the target output value, an output value acquiring unit that acquires the output values of the vehicle, and a vehicle model that receives the input control parameters and generates estimated output values of an actual vehicle, wherein the output value acquiring unit acquires the estimated output values from the vehicle model, as the output values of the vehicle and wherein the vehicle is controlled based on the adapted values of the input control parameters that are determined by the adapted value setting unit, a combination of each of the output values and at least one of the input control parameters suitable for adaptive control with respect to the each output value is established, and the at least one of the input control parameters that is in combination with the each output value is changed so that the each output value becomes substantially equal to the corresponding target output value or falls within the permissible adaptation range of the target output value, wherein the output values of the vehicle comprise output values of an internal combustion engine, the output values of the internal combustion engine include at least two of output torque, fuel economy and amounts of exhaust emissions of the engine, and the input control parameters comprise input control parameters for the internal combustion engine.