Methods and apparatus to adjust vehicle suspension damping
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsChris Paiva, Tom Sawarynski, Steven Thompson, Daniel Collins, Geoffrey Bossio, Jason Wallace Michener
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to adjust vehicle suspension damping are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to determine a terrain condition based on first wheel position data of a vehicle and second wheel position data of the vehicle, determine a damping command based on the terrain condition, and adjust a suspension of the vehicle based on the damping command.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- interface circuitry;
- machine readable instructions;
- and
- programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to:
- determine a terrain condition based on first wheel position data of a vehicle and second wheel position data of the vehicle, the determination of the terrain condition including:
- generating filtered wheel position data by filtering the first wheel position data and the second wheel position data via a high-pass filter;
- and
- calculating a power spectral density of the filtered wheel position data;
- determine a damping command based on the terrain condition;
- and
- adjust a suspension of the vehicle based on the damping command.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions to cause programmable circuitry to at least:
- determine a terrain condition based on first wheel position data of a vehicle and second wheel position data of the vehicle, the determination of the terrain condition including:
- generating filtered wheel position data by filtering the first wheel position data and the second wheel position data via high-pass filter;
- and
- calculating a power spectral density of the filtered wheel position data;
- determine a damping command based on the terrain condition;
- and
- adjust a suspension of the vehicle based on the damping command.
A method comprising:
- determining a terrain condition based on first wheel position data of a vehicle and second wheel position data of the vehicle, the determining of the terrain condition including;
- generating filtered wheel position data by filtering the first wheel position data and the second wheel position data via high-pass filter;
- and
- calculating a power spectral density of the filtered wheel position data;
- determining a damping command based on the terrain condition;
- and
- adjusting a suspension of the vehicle based on the damping command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.