For decades, Mercedes-Benz has been trying to create the ultimate fully active suspension that would allow the perfect control of the car while cornering, accelerating, braking and off-roading. Over ...
Air ride suspensions have several advantages over typical arrangements, but retrofitting a system to a vehicle that didn’t come with it can get pricey fast, especially if you want to go beyond the ...
Porsche had a mic-drop moment when it launched Active Ride suspension technology on the Panamera and later the Taycan. But the Stuttgart-based automaker isn’t the only one that gets to use this tech.
Previous work by the authors on fully active control systems is extended to model semi-active systems which (a) can only dissipate energy and (b) involve some restrictions in their response ...
Active suspensions are almost a holy grail for cars, adding so much performance gain that certain types have even been banned from Formula 1 racing. That doesn’t stop them from being used on a wide ...
Chinese automaker BYD has developed an active suspension system that can allow a vehicle to jump in the air and safely drive if a wheel or tire is damaged or missing. BYD said the system, dubbed DiSus ...
Bose may be synonymous with home and vehicle audio systems, but did you know that the Framingham-based company developed one of the most intriguing active suspension designs of all time? It all ...
Link’s ROI Cabmate Semi-Active Cab Suspension with the company’s intelligent Road Optimized Innovation technology now is available as an aftermarket kit for the Freightliner Cascadia, Kenworth T680, ...
Porsche’s $7,000-plus Active Ride system is transformative. And it isn’t. Allow us to explain. Like a lot of people interested in vehicle dynamics, I’m fascinated by active suspension. That is, an ...
Automotive suspension design has traditionally had to strike a difficult balance between three conflicting needs: road holding or handling, load carrying and passenger comfort. At its most basic level ...