A control unit of a vehicular headlamp apparatus can selectively perform
steering angle control and navigation-cooperative control. The steering
angle control operates a drive mechanism based on a steering angle and a
speed of a vehicle to control a headlamp's swivel angle. The
navigation-cooperative control operates the drive mechanism using a
navigation unit to control the swivel angle. When a current position of
the vehicle reaches an entry control start point, the control unit starts
navigation-cooperative control at the entry into a curved road. The
control unit finds a target swivel angle based on a curvature radius and
curved road direction information about the curved road. While the
vehicle moves from the entry control start point to a curved road start
point, the control unit operates the drive mechanism to gradually change
the headlamp's swivel angle to the target swivel angle.