Individual pressure zone controlled cushion and support

A cushion system comprising:

• a cushion component including a plurality of bladders;
• a control component including a pneumatic subsystem and an electrical subsystem, the pneumatic subsystem being pneumatically coupled to the plurality of bladders and including a bladder-specific pressure transducer for each bladder of the plurality of bladders;
• and
• pneumatic lines including, a bladder-specific pneumatic line that pneumatically couples a bladder of the plurality of bladders to a corresponding bladder-specific pressure transducer;
• wherein the electrical subsystem is configured to predict an actual pressure within the bladder from a measured pressure that is generated in response to a signal received from the bladder-specific pressure transducer that corresponds to the bladder.

A method comprising:

• receiving a signal from a bladder-specific pressure transducer that is pneumatically coupled to a bladder of a cushion system that includes a plurality of bladders and a plurality of bladder-specific pressure transducers, wherein the bladder-specific pressure transducer is pneumatically coupled to the bladder via a bladder-specific pneumatic line;
• generating a measured pressure from the received signal;
• and
• predicting an actual pressure within the bladder in response to the measured pressure.

A control component for a cushion system, the control component comprising:

• a pneumatic subsystem;
• and
• an electrical subsystem;
• the pneumatic subsystem including couplers configured to provide a connection to pneumatic lines that pneumatically connect a plurality of bladders of a cushion component of the cushion system to the pneumatic subsystem, and including a bladder-specific pressure transducer for each bladder of the plurality of bladders;
• wherein the electrical subsystem is configured to predict an actual pressure within a bladder from a measured pressure that is generated in response to a signal received from a bladder-specific pressure transducer that corresponds to the bladder.