Patent ID: 8370025

Claim:
A steering apparatus for realizing a relationship between a steering wheel angle and a yaw angular velocity occurring in a vehicle, predetermined such that the direction as seen from the view point of a driver of a target destination point on a target course for vehicle travel at a predetermined time after a forward gaze and the direction as seen from the view point of the driver of a reference position on the steering wheel are corresponded with each other, wherein the steering apparatus comprises: a physical turn amount acquisition section that acquires a physical turn amount of a vehicle; a steering wheel angle detection section that detects the steering wheel angle existing due to driver steering; a target setting section that, based on a predetermined relationship between the physical turn amount and a resistance-feel level, sets a target value of steering wheel torque to correspond to the detected steering wheel angle and the acquired physical turn amount such that the resistance-feel level of the driver derived from a perceived amount of proportional change in steering wheel torque to a change in steering wheel angle and a perceived amount of the steering wheel torque monotonically increase with increase in physical turn amount; and a steering wheel torque controller that controls so as to realize the steering wheel torque target value set by the target setting section.