Patent ID: 8239105

Claim:
A control device of an automatic transmission, comprising: an automatic transmission coupled to an engine and having a gear-change mechanism portion and a clutch to transmit motive power from the engine to the gear-change mechanism portion; a clutch control portion to engage and disengage the clutch; and a motor control portion to control an output of a motor that executes a control operation on the clutch control portion by a processor wherein the motor control portion includes: a target motor current computation portion that computes a target motor current according to a desired driving state; a motor current detection portion that detects plural motor currents respectively corresponding to plural detection timings; a selection portion that selects a motor current corresponding to the desired driving state among the plural motor currents that have been detected; and a motor driving portion that applies feedback control on the output of the motor according to a difference between the target motor current and the motor current that has been selected.