Patent ID: 8065066

Claim:
A running control device for a vehicle having wheels in order to move the vehicle from a stopped state, the running control device comprising: a first calculation unit that calculates a driving force to be applied to the vehicle wheels in a traveling direction of the vehicle and calculates a first braking force, which is a vehicle stop keeping braking force and which is applied to the vehicle wheels in order to keep the vehicle stopped by negating the driving force; a detection unit that detects a vehicle speed; and a second calculation unit that calculates a first control torque, which corresponds to the first braking force; a torque application unit that applies a second control torque, which is calculated by adding a third control torque that oscillates every predetermined cycle to the first control torque, such that the driving force becomes relatively greater than a second braking force applied to the vehicle wheels and the vehicle moves in the traveling direction, wherein the second calculation unit varies the second control torque when the vehicle is moved by an application of the second control torque, by varying at least one of the first control torque and the third control torque based upon the vehicle speed calculated by the detection unit, such that the vehicle speed is within a predetermined speed range in the absence of any braking operation performed by a driver.