Methods for creating clearance beneath vehicle wheels
AssigneeJaguar Land Rover Limited
InventorsSyed Asad Ali, Luke Birch, Sam Brown, Dennis Lausecker, Anesh Mistry, William Burdock, James Kelly
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Abstract
A control system (300) for controlling an active suspension system (104) of a vehicle (100), the control system comprising one or more controller (301), wherein the control system is configured to: determine (804) that an entry condition is satisfied; in dependence on satisfaction of the entry condition, transmit (806) a request to the active suspension system to create clearance beneath a first wheel (FL, RR) of the vehicle but not create clearance beneath a plurality of other wheels (FR, RL) of the vehicle.
Claims18
A control system for controlling an active suspension system of a vehicle, the control system comprising one or more controller, wherein the control system is configured to:
- determine that an entry condition is satisfied;
- in dependence on satisfaction of the entry condition, transmit a request to the active suspension system to create clearance beneath a first wheel of the vehicle but not create clearance beneath a plurality of other wheels of the vehicle, wherein the first wheel is at a first lateral side of the vehicle and at a first longitudinal end of the vehicle, and the plurality of other wheels comprise at least a second wheel at a second lateral side of the vehicle and at the first longitudinal end of the vehicle, and a third wheel at the first lateral side of the vehicle and at a second longitudinal end of the vehicle;
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- transmit a second request to the active suspension system to create clearance beneath the second wheel but not create clearance beneath at least the first wheel and a fourth wheel, wherein the fourth wheel is at the second lateral side of the vehicle and at the second longitudinal end of the vehicle, diagonally opposite the first wheel.
A method of controlling an active suspension system of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- determining that an entry condition is satisfied;
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- in dependence on satisfaction of the entry condition, transmitting a request to the active suspension system to create clearance beneath a first wheel of the vehicle but not create clearance beneath a plurality of other wheels of the vehicle, wherein the first wheel is at a first lateral-side of the vehicle and at a first longitudinal end of the vehicle, and the plurality of other wheels comprise at least a second wheel at a second lateral side of the vehicle and at the first longitudinal end of the vehicle, and a third wheel at the first lateral side of the vehicle and at a second longitudinal end of the vehicle;
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- transmitting a second request to the active suspension system to create clearance beneath the second wheel but not create clearance beneath at least the first wheel and a fourth wheel, wherein the fourth wheel is at the second lateral side of the vehicle and at the second longitudinal end of the vehicle, diagonally opposite the first wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.