Suspension based active force damping for a vehicle

An active damping system for an electric motor driven vehicle having front wheels spaced apart in a cross-car direction and coupled to the vehicle by suspension components, and rear wheels spaced from the front wheel in a fore-aft direction, the system comprising:

• a first sensor coupled to one or both of a first front wheel or a suspension assembly for the first front wheel, the first sensor providing an output indicative of a force on a component to which the first sensor is coupled;
• a first actuator having a housing rigidly coupled to a vehicle frame at a location spaced in one or both of the fore-aft direction and the cross-car direction from the first front wheel and the suspension assembly for the first front wheel, the first actuator having a movable mass driven by the first actuator, the movable mass includes a magnet and a ferromagnetic component coupled to the magnet, and the first actuator includes a wire coil;
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• a controller configured to receive the output from the first sensor and the controller is configured, in response to at least an output from the first sensor that is beyond a threshold, to provide electricity to the wire coil of the first actuator to displace the movable mass and apply forces directly to the vehicle frame at the location to at least partially damp vibrations in the vehicle due to force provided to the vehicle frame by the movement of the movable mass relative to the vehicle frame.