Abstract:
A suspension controller for controlling, based on a value detected by at least one sensor which is provided in a vehicle and which is configured to detect a detected portion, a suspension provided for a wheel of the vehicle which is located on a rear side of the detected portion and which is distant from the detected portion by a longitudinal distance in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, such that the suspension works in accordance with a control command value that is prepared based on the value detected by the at least one sensor. The suspension controller includes a gain determiner configured to determine a gain, for controlling the suspension based on the determined gain. The gain determiner is configured to determine the gain such that the determined gain is smaller when a previewable time is shorter than a threshold length of time, than when the previewable time is not shorter than the threshold length of time.
Abstract:
A suspension system for a vehicle, including: (a) a suspension spring; (52) (b) a hydraulic damper; (56) (c) a displacement force generator (120) disposed in parallel with the suspension spring and the damper; and (d) a controller including (d-1) a damping-force controlling portion (172) for controlling a damping force of the damper and (d-2) a displacement-force controlling portion (170) for controlling a displacement force of the displacement force generator. The displacement-force controlling portion is configured to execute a sprung-portion vibration damping control for controlling the displacement force, such that the generated displacement force acts as a damping force against sprung-portion vibration. The damping-force controlling portion is configured, upon execution of the sprung-portion vibration damping control, to execute a damping force reducing control for reducing the damping force that is to be generated by the damper, depending on an intensity of unsprung-portion resonance frequency vibration, which occurs in the vehicle and which has a resonance frequency of the unsprung portion.
Abstract:
A suspension controller for controlling a suspension provided for a rear wheel of the vehicle, based on at least one value detected by at least one sensor which is provided in a front-wheel side portion of the vehicle and which is configured to detect a vertical behavior of the front-wheel side portion that is located on a side of a front wheel of the vehicle. The suspension controller includes a gain determiner configured to determine a gain, for controlling the suspension based on the determined gain. The gain determiner is configured to predict an overlap between a first portion of a road surface over which a tire of the front wheel has passed and a second portion of the road surface over which a tire of the rear wheel is supposed to pass, and to determine the gain such that the determined gain is smaller when the predicted overlap is small, than when the predicted overlap is large.
Abstract:
A suspension system for a vehicle, including (a) four displacement force generators (152) each configured to generate a displacement force forcing sprung and unsprung portions of the vehicle toward or away from each other; and (b) a control unit (200) configured to control the displacement force that is to be generated by each displacement force generator. The control unit is capable of executing a plurality of vibration damping controls concurrently with each other, by controlling the displacement force, so as to damp a composite vibration containing a plurality of different vehicle-body vibrations which are to be damped by the respective vibration damping controls. The control unit is configured to refrain from executing at least one of the vibration damping controls for damping one of the vehicle-body vibrations that is not required to be damped, in a low vibration intensity situation in which intensities of sprung-portion resonance-frequency vibration components in respective four sprung portions of the vehicle are lower than a threshold intensity degree.
Abstract:
A suspension system including: (a) a vibration obtaining device configured to obtain vertical vibration of each of at least one of a sprung portion and an unsprung portion of a vehicle; (b) a processing device configured to subject the obtained vibration to a phase advance processing, and having a plurality of characteristics different from each other with respect to a degree by which a phase of the obtained vibration is advanced; (c) a characteristic selector configured to select one of the plurality of characteristics, based on frequency of the obtained vibration of each of at least one of the sprung and unsprung portions, whereby the obtained vibration is subjected to the phase advance processing that is performed in accordance with the selected one of the plurality of characteristics of the processing device; and (d) a suspension controller configured to control a suspension disposed between the sprung and unsprung portions, based on the vibration subjected to the phase advance processing.