Patent attributes
The inventive vehicle behavior control device employs a novel control strategy, suppressing deterioration of a vehicle behavior which would be induced during control processes, and being useful especially for correcting or inhibiting excessive deterioration of a vehicle behavior such as when a risk of rolling-over is detected. The device firstly judges if a possibility of rolling-over of the vehicle is high and calculates a target braking control amount for reducing the possibility of rolling-over in accordance with the result of the judgment of a possibility of rolling-over of the vehicle, where the target control amount when the possibility of rolling-over is high is set higher than when the possibility is low. Then, under control of the inventive control device, wheel braking force is controlled based upon the target braking control amount. After the starting of control of the wheel braking force, however, increasing and decreasing gradients of wheel braking force is restricted when a high possibility of rolling-over is judged.
