Vehicle suspension control system and method

Details Vehicle suspension control system and method Vehicle suspension control system and method

1998-06-12

2000-08-01

Zanelli, Michael J.

Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location

Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication

Vehicle subsystem or accessory control

280 5506, 280 551, B60G 17015

Patent

active

060979992

ABSTRACT:
In a vehicle with four corner suspensions, wherein during a transient turning maneuver, a body of the vehicle tends to compress two of the corner suspensions on a first side of the vehicle and expand two of the corner suspensions on a second side of the vehicle, wherein road inputs cause random compression and rebound of the four corner suspensions, a suspension control method comprising the steps of: sensing vehicle speed; monitoring steering wheel velocity; responsive to the vehicle speed and the steering wheel velocity, determining a signal indicative of a transient turning maneuver of the vehicle; responsive to the signal, determining compression damping commands for the two corner suspensions on the first side of the vehicle; responsive to the signal, determining rebound damping commands for the two corner suspensions on the second side of the vehicle; monitoring relative velocity of each corner suspension; applying the compression damping commands for the two corner suspensions on the first side of the vehicle when the relative velocities for those two corner suspensions indicate that they are in compression and terminating the compression damping commands for the two corner suspensions on the first side of the vehicle during the random rebounds of those two corner suspensions caused by the road inputs; and applying the rebound damping commands for the two corner suspensions on the second side of the vehicle when the relative velocities for those two corner suspensions indicate that they are in rebound and terminating the rebound damping commands for the two corner suspensions on the first side of the vehicle during the random compressions of those two corner suspensions caused by the road inputs.

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