Adaptive automatic climate control method for a motor vehicle

An improved motor vehicle automatic climate control methodology individually develops climate control commands in response to ambient environmental conditions and a transient state estimator, and individually and adaptively adjusts the commands to improve driver comfort in response to driver override of respective automatic control settings (12). The adaptive adjustment of the climate control commands is carried by CMAC neural networks (58, 76, 92) that take into account the environmental conditions and the dynamic state of the system (10) when the respective overrides occur so as to minimize or eliminate the environmental state ambiguity and steady-state/transient coupling that occur in currently known control methodologies.