The vehicle power-generation control unit includes a voltage detecting
circuit detecting a generation voltage of a vehicle generator driven by a
vehicle engine, a switching device allowing an exciting current to flow
into an exciting winding of the vehicle generator when the switching
device is in an on state, an average duty ratio detecting circuit
detecting a temporal average duty ratio of the switching device on the
basis of the generation voltage, an enhanced duty-cycle signal generating
circuit generating an enhanced duty-cycle signal having a duty ratio
equal to the temporal average duty ratio added with a supplementary duty
ratio determined depending on at least one of vehicle state information
and vehicle generator state information, and a driver circuit driving the
switching device with the duty ratio of the enhanced duty-cycle signal
when the generation voltage detected by the voltage detecting circuit is
lower than a predetermined target voltage.