Patent ID: 7317978

Claim:
A driving force control apparatus for a vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises at least one power source, a drive mechanism connected to the one power source, and a driving wheel to which a torque to be outputted from the one power source is transmitted through the drive mechanism, the apparatus comprising: a first sensor that detects an output command supplied to the one power source; a second sensor that detects an operating condition amount of the vehicle; and a controller programmed to: calculate a basic command value of an output of the one power source based upon the output command to the one power source for the vehicle from the first sensor; calculate a reference model command value based upon the basic command value and a transmission characteristic of a response of reference model; calculate a correction value based upon a deviation between the reference model command value and a predetermined frequency component corresponding to a vibration of a vehicle driving system extracted out of the operating condition amount of the vehicle from the second sensor; calculate a target command value based upon the basic command value and the correction value; and control the output of the one power source based upon the target command value.