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US 8,948,968 B2Granted
Surface vehicle vertical trajectory planning
AssigneeBose Corporation
InventorsLawrence D. Knox, Neal M. Lackritz, James A. Parison, William R. Short
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Abstract
An active suspension system for a vehicle including elements for developing and executing a trajectory plan responsive to the path on which the vehicle is traveling. The system may include a location system for locating the vehicle, and a system for retrieving a road profile corresponding to the vehicle location.
Claims10
Apparatus for use in a surface vehicle operating on a path, said path comprising vertical disturbances, said apparatus comprising:
- a controllable suspension for actively suspending a payload with respect to a vertical disturbance input, and;
- a trajectory developing system operatively coupled to said controllable suspension, said
- trajectory developing system for developing a trajectory plan responsive to data specifically representative of said vertical disturbances.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.