Patent ID: 8068965

Claim:
A control apparatus for a shift-position changing mechanism that changes shift positions of an automatic transmission mounted in a vehicle using a rotational force of an actuator based on a signal corresponding to a state of an operation member, comprising: a mechanism that generates a rotational force for moving the actuator toward a rotation stop positional-range corresponding to the shift position, based on a rotation stop position of the actuator; a detection unit that detects a rotation amount of the actuator, which is an amount by which the actuator is rotated by the rotational force of the actuator and the rotational force for moving the actuator toward the rotation stop positional-range corresponding to the shift position; a control unit that controls the actuator based on the signal and the detected rotation amount; and a learning unit that learns the rotation stop positional-range corresponding to the shift position, based on an amount by which the actuator has been rotated after a control over the actuator executed by the control unit is stopped.