32 results about "Hardpoint" patented technology

The invention provides a stabilizer bar modeling method, device and equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of vehicle chassis design and development. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a digital-analog file of the stabilizer bar, and analyzing the digital-analog file to obtain geometric information of the stabilizer bar; performing curve fitting according to the geometric information to generate a parameterized curve representing the center line of the stabilizer bar; according to a preset number of hard points, carrying out equipartition sampling on a parameter domain of the parameterized curve to generate a hard point coordinate set; and based on the hard point coordinate set, constructing a multi-body dynamic model of the stabilizer bar in a simulation environment. According to the method, automatic and high-precision extraction of the hard point coordinates is realized, so that a traditional low-efficiency mode of manual identification and measurement depending on artificial experience is effectively improved; and the hard point coordinate set is generated according to the preset number of hard points, and the multi-body dynamic model of the stabilizer bar is automatically constructed in a simulation environment, so that the problems of low modeling efficiency, large error and complex flow of the stabilizer bar are effectively improved.

The application relates to a shock absorber road load acquisition method, an analysis method and system and a storage medium, which comprise the following steps: determining hard points connected with other components in a shock absorber assembly in a suspension design state; establishing a shock absorber assembly dynamics model, and establishing a local load coordinate system of each hard point related to the dynamic load of a shock absorber piston rod on the shock absorber piston rod; establishing a local load coordinate system of each hard point related to the dynamic load of a shock absorber cylinder on the shock absorber cylinder; setting displacement output between an upper point of the shock absorber piston rod and a lower fixed center point of the shock absorber, force and torque output borne by the shock absorber piston rod, and force and torque output borne by the shock absorber cylinder; establishing a whole vehicle multi-body dynamics model; and simulating the response of each system of the vehicle under various virtual road surface excitations. The application can truly simulate the change condition of the shock absorber road load.

The invention provides a hard point data processing method and device, equipment, a medium and a product, and relates to the technical field of data processing. The method comprises the steps that a first hard point data list comprising at least one piece of to-be-modeled vehicle part hard point data and a second hard point data list which is stored in a database and comprises multiple pieces of vehicle part template hard point data are obtained, and the hard point data comprise hard point names and hard point coordinate values; based on the first hard point data list and the second hard point data list, hard point coordinate values, matched with hard point names in the second hard point data list, in the first hard point data list are replaced into the second hard point data through an editing distance algorithm, and the processed second hard point data list is obtained and output. By means of the method, errors caused by manual intervention are reduced, the efficiency and accuracy of hard point data processing are improved, and then the efficiency and accuracy of vehicle part modeling are improved.

The present disclosure provides a virtual detection method and system for a steering column with intermediate shaft assembly, and relates to the technical field of automobile design. The method comprises: building a parameterized model of the steering column with intermediate shaft assembly; sequentially performing intermediate shaft torque fluctuation detection, intermediate shaft envelope detection, and model motion envelope detection on the built parameterized model of the steering column with intermediate shaft assembly; wherein building the parameterized model of the steering column with intermediate shaft assembly comprises: determining the initial positions of each hard point in the steering column with intermediate shaft assembly, and obtaining the coordinates of each hard point; generating a hard point design table based on parameterized design, building a simplified boundary model of the steering column with intermediate shaft assembly, and associating the simplified boundary model with the hard point design table; establishing a motion command of a moving part, and a motion trajectory and an envelope type of each motion, and completing the building of the parameterized model of the steering column with intermediate shaft assembly. The present disclosure can improve the development and design efficiency of the steering column with intermediate shaft assembly.

The embodiment of the invention provides a modeling and analysis method for suspension four-wheel positioning angle tolerance sensitivity analysis, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the structural information of a suspension system and the geometric data of system parts, and building a multi-body dynamic model based on the structural information and the geometric data; replacing a rigid kinematic pair in the multi-body dynamic model with a bushing pair, and setting a rigidity parameter of the corresponding bushing pair according to the type of the replaced rigid kinematic pair; collecting process information of system parts, designing a hard point tolerance range based on the process information and an error range of the suspension system, and adjusting a pre-offset value of a bushing pair according to the hard point tolerance range; the rigidity parameters and the pre-offset values of different lining pairs are modified for simulation, simulation results of each time are recorded, and the simulation results are compared to determine the sensitivity influence factors of the four-wheel positioning angle.

The invention provides a 3D automatic modeling method and system for an automobile control arm, and relates to the technical field of vehicle chassis, and the method comprises the steps: taking three key hard point coordinates and reference lines required by whole vehicle assembly as input, and automatically constructing a local working coordinate system consistent with the whole vehicle arrangement; comprehensive parameterization definition is carried out on the control arm body and key structure characteristics such as a weight reduction groove, a weight reduction hole and a bolt boss, and deep coupling of the modeling process and the whole vehicle space relation is achieved; geometric features are generated from top to bottom according to an object tree structure in a CATIA environment, and dynamic association between parameters and sketch sizes is established, so that automatic updating of the model can be triggered by adjustment of any design parameter, and a control arm 3D model completely matched with a current whole vehicle arrangement scheme is efficiently and accurately generated. According to the method, the modeling efficiency and the design flexibility are remarkably improved, and the technical bottlenecks that traditional manual modeling is slow in response, large in repeated labor and difficult to adapt to variable arrangement requirements are effectively solved.

The application provides a method, device, equipment and storage medium for improving simulation accuracy of a lower control arm. The method comprises the following steps: 1, importing a geometric model and dividing a grid; 2, establishing a Connector unit; 3, defining a direction of the Connector unit and correcting stiffness; 4, defining contact on the control arm; 5, restricting inner point and outer point degrees of freedom of the control arm; 6, defining different materials and properties according to an analysis working condition; 7, applying a decomposition load; 8, submitting finite element software analysis; 9, checking a result; 10, post-processing and evaluating the result. The application eliminates rigid body displacement through the restriction of the inner point and the outer point, thereby avoiding various restrictions caused by an inertia release algorithm; and through inner point and outer point bush stiffness correction and loading of all hard points, the application reduces load loss caused by bush stiffness to an acceptable range of accuracy, so that actual load of the control arm approaches the decomposition load, and the application can realize combined loading analysis of control arms in different spatial positions of multiple vehicle models in the same platform.

The transmission shaft included angle optimization method, device, equipment and computer readable storage medium, transmission shaft included angle optimization method includes: based on meeting the power assembly and chassis system model of transmission shaft included angle theoretical design requirement, draw the tolerance-transmission shaft included angle change curve diagram of power assembly relative to wheel center point in X, Y, Z three directions, and identify the tolerance direction with the most sensitive degree of transmission shaft included angle;According to the tolerance-transmission shaft included angle change curve diagram of X, Y, Z three directions and the tolerance range of power assembly relative to wheel center point in X, Y, Z three directions, determine the distribution range of transmission shaft included angle in the tolerance range, and judge whether the distribution range of transmission shaft included angle exceeds the theoretical design requirement;If yes, adjust the arrangement hard point of power assembly model in the tolerance direction with the most sensitive degree of transmission shaft included angle until the distribution range of transmission shaft included angle meets the theoretical design requirement. For sensitive direction optimization, effectively solve the problem and improve the optimization efficiency.

This invention discloses a virtual kingpin optimization and control method for a steerable chassis angle module. The method includes: applying design conditions to trigger the virtual kingpin to generate coupled motion; analyzing the hardpoint architecture to obtain the kinematic and elastic kinematic characteristics of the kingpin; measuring wheel alignment parameters; establishing differential equations to solve the virtual kingpin positioning parameters; optimizing the hardpoint structure to select the optimal value; inputting the control target; calculating the steering feedback torque; and executing closed-loop control to output the drive current. This invention improves the accuracy of kingpin kinematic calculation through multi-condition coupled analysis, establishes a quantitative mapping relationship between wheel attitude and kingpin parameters, applies instantaneous axis theory to achieve accurate calculation of kingpin positioning parameters, uses sensitivity analysis and weighted optimization to improve hardpoint optimization efficiency, introduces kingpin dynamic characteristics to improve the accuracy of return torque calculation, and constructs a dual closed-loop control system to enhance response speed and robustness. This effectively improves the ease of operation, driving stability, and steering control accuracy of the steerable chassis angle module.

This application discloses a DMU model design method, system, and storage medium for a single-wishbone rear suspension. Based on the structural characteristics of the single-wishbone rear suspension, the method establishes a database containing physical hardpoints and derived geometric features. By defining derived geometric features, the kinematic logic of the suspension is embedded in the database, giving the model not only geometric shape but also kinematic semantics. The suspension is divided into multiple sub-models such as the body, control arms, and springs, and these are bound to the database to achieve linked updates of geometric positions. In a virtual assembly environment, motion simulation is performed by configuring kinematic pairs based on hardpoints and applying wheel hop drive. This design method achieves data-driven parametric modeling, enabling rapid response to design changes, automatic generation of wheel camber angle and drive shaft length variation curves, effective evaluation of suspension kinematic performance, and significantly improved suspension development efficiency and design rationality.

The invention discloses a parametric modeling method and system for a double-wishbone suspension, a medium and equipment, and relates to the technical field of automobile digital software design. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a hard point coordinate of a to-be-constructed double-wishbone suspension structure, and preprocessing the hard point coordinate; establishing a parameterized model of the double-wishbone suspension in the modeling platform based on the spatial position, the connection relationship and the motion constraint of each part; working condition simulation is carried out on the parameterized model of the double-wishbone suspension according to task requirements, a kinematic pair gap error is calculated according to a simulation result, and parameters of the parameterized model of the double-wishbone suspension are optimized based on gradient reverse optimization. According to the method, efficient and accurate parametric modeling of the double-wishbone suspension can be realized.

The invention provides a double-front-axle balanced suspension design method, and belongs to the technical field of balanced suspension structural design, and the technical scheme is as follows: S1, determining a target offset frequency, a target axle load sharing requirement and a target average damping ratio of a balanced suspension; s2, calculating rigidity parameters of the first-axle front plate spring and the second-axle front plate spring according to the target offset frequency; s3, the hard point position and the rotating angle of the balance swing arm assembly are designed; s4, the hard point position and the rotating angle of the balance swing arm assembly are verified, if verification is not qualified, the step S3 is repeated, and if verification is qualified, the step S5 is executed; s5, establishing a suspension system model, and performing simulation analysis on strength, rigidity and fatigue life of the model; s6, if simulation is not qualified, the step S5 is repeated, if simulation is qualified, a sample piece is trial-manufactured, and a whole vehicle road test is carried out. The method has the beneficial effects that the fluctuation amplitude of the parallelism of the two front axles can be controlled within an allowable range by optimizing the hard point design.

The application provides an Ackermann rate calculation method and device based on a front axle structure and a computer readable storage medium, and the method comprises the following steps: constructing a geometric model of a front axle steering trapezoid, wherein the geometric model comprises key hard point parameters; in the geometric model, the key hard point parameters are used to construct a relationship model between an inner wheel steering angle and an outer wheel steering angle; the outer wheel steering angle corresponding to the inner wheel steering angle under the current key hard point parameters is calculated based on the relationship model between the inner wheel steering angle and the outer wheel steering angle, and the Ackermann rate of the current front axle structure is calculated. Through the above geometric analysis method, the complex spatial kinematics problem is converted into a plane geometric calculation problem, which not only guarantees the calculation accuracy, but more importantly, realizes instant feedback of the front axle steering trapezoid design and the Ackermann rate evaluation, and greatly improves the early development and optimization efficiency of the chassis steering system.

This invention relates to the field of automotive engineering technology and provides a method for predicting the dynamic dimensions of leaf springs, comprising the following steps: S1, inputting the determined arc length S and arc height H of the leaf spring into a leaf spring parameter calculation model, and outputting leaf spring parameters, including the radius R, central angle α, and chord length L of the leaf spring; S2, applying the corrected leaf spring parameters to the overall vehicle hardpoint design and general layout drawing through two iterative approximations. When setting the arc length and arc height of the leaf spring, the central angle, radius, and chord length of the main leaf spring plate with engineering precision can be analyzed, satisfying the various dimensions required for drawing the characteristic graphics of the main leaf spring plate with engineering precision, and meeting the boundary requirements of the hardpoints of the leaf spring in the overall vehicle design for the general layout design.

The invention discloses a high-precision asynchronous Kalman filtering fusion hard point marking method, device and equipment and a medium. The method comprises the following steps: processing a state transition equation and an observation equation through extended Kalman filtering or unscented Kalman filtering; s12, acquiring an observation value of the target electrified automobile in real time based on a preset sensor; s13, on the basis of an asynchronous data updating mechanism, after the observation value is updated, prediction updating is carried out; s14, outputting optimal state estimation; s15, judging whether the GNSS signal is valid or not; if so, continuing to execute the step S13 by using the GNSS signal; if not, executing S13 based on an inertial navigation mode; and S16, when vibration impact is detected, acquiring a hard point position based on the optimal state estimation and the synchronization time information. The invention belongs to the field of hard point position detection. The position of the hard point can be accurately detected.

This invention discloses a method and apparatus for optimizing engine hood structure, belonging to the technical field of vehicle body structure optimization. First, based on the hard point gap distribution in the engine compartment, the functional zoning of the energy-absorbing core layer is completed, and honeycomb, negative Poisson's ratio, and honeycomb composite sandwich structures are customized. Then, a dual-stream encoder multimodal deep learning proxy model is constructed, introducing uncertainty quantification and active learning closed-loop to ensure accuracy. Finally, the optimal solution is output through dual-objective multi-objective optimization and simulation verification. While meeting regulatory and mass production requirements, it achieves synergistic optimization of pedestrian protection and lightweighting, significantly improving optimization efficiency and result reliability.

This invention discloses a suspension hardpoint connection structure for a chassis, comprising a hanger pin assembly, an anti-rotation steel sleeve, and two composite bushings. The anti-rotation steel sleeve is inserted into the mounting hole of the body hardpoint, with an interference fit between its outer periphery and the hardpoint. One of the composite bushings is also interference-fitted internally, while the other composite bushing is interference-fitted into the mounting hole at the end of the body leaf spring. The hanger pin assembly connects the body hardpoint and the composite bushing within the body leaf spring, ensuring a stable connection. The elastic deformation capability of the composite bushings in this invention can compensate for assembly eccentricity or non-uniform contact, eliminating abnormal wear and vibration noise during the use of new energy vehicles. By reducing abnormal wear, the service life of the connection parts is increased, reducing the need for frequent maintenance of the suspension system in new energy vehicles and significantly improving the durability, reliability, and ride comfort of the suspension hardpoint connection.

The invention discloses a Macpherson suspension front lower control arm structure and a modular design method, and belongs to the technical field of suspensions. A Macpherson suspension front lower control arm structure comprises a control arm body, a ball head sleeve is arranged at one end of the control arm body, a lining sleeve is arranged at the second end of the control arm body, and a stud is arranged at the third end of the control arm body; the ball pin assembly is mounted on the ball sleeve in an interference fit manner; the front bushing is mounted on the bushing sleeve in an interference fit manner; and the rear bushing is mounted on the stud. The ball pin assembly, the front lining and the rear lining are used as the minimum components of newly developed or borrowed existing products and can be designed and developed according to different requirements, under the condition that hard points are close in arrangement, modularization can be achieved in a layering and on-demand combination mode, and the management cost and the number of molds are reduced.

An unmanned aerial vehicle includes an airframe and a plurality of rotor assemblies operatively connected to the airframe and configured to propel the unmanned aerial vehicle. The air frame includes a plurality of tubes and a plurality of hardpoints. Each of the plurality of hardpoints may include a tubular protrusion for receiving one of the plurality of tubes. The unmanned aerial vehicle may further include structural adhesive bonding the tubular protrusion of each of the plurality of hardpoints to a corresponding one of the plurality of tubes.

The invention provides an optimization design method and device for a steering transmission mechanism of a four-wheel-drive motor caravan and a medium, and belongs to the technical field of whole vehicle steering design. Whole vehicle design parameters are input, a steering system motion model is established, steering characteristics are verified based on the Ackerman theory, steering trapezium parameters are optimized, and hard point parameter initial positioning is carried out; hard point parameters are adjusted through suspension-steering coordination simulation, the transmission ratio and the number of turns of a steering wheel are optimized, and finally optimized parameters are verified and output. By establishing a quantitative evaluation system, steering performance indexes are embodied into measurable parameters such as a flat jump interference parameter a less than or equal to 0.2 and a braking deviation parameter b less than or equal to 0.5, and the design target is clarified. Parameter transmission and iteration verification are adopted, and mutual coordination of steering trapezium optimization, hard point positioning and transmission performance optimization is ensured. The design success rate and the vehicle steering performance are improved by comprehensively evaluating the motion characteristics, coordination and transmission performance of the steering system in the initial stage of design.

The application discloses a kind of automobile suspension hard point optimization method and system, belong to automobile chassis design technical field, the optimization method includes: using suspension dynamics model to the initial hard point of target suspension carries out suspension K&C analysis, identifies the K characteristic to be optimized that does not meet target value range;Judge whether there is the same hard point performance matrix table of target suspension structure type, if it does not exist, then construct the matrix table;According to hard point performance matrix table and the K characteristic to be optimized, identify the hard point to be adjusted;According to the deviation of K characteristic to be optimized and target value, and the sign mark in hard point performance matrix table, determine the coordinate value increase direction of hard point to be adjusted;To the hard point to be adjusted is iteratively adjusted and suspension K&C analysis, until the key K characteristic of target suspension meets target value range.The present application can accurately and quickly optimize suspension hard point, improve suspension design efficiency, shorten development cycle.

The utility model provides a kind of ornament connecting structure, vehicle door and vehicle, ornament connecting structure, comprising: ornament body, ornament body is made of foamed material;Insert, insert has pre-buried part and connecting portion, at least part of pre-buried part is embedded in ornament body, connecting portion is located ornament body surface side, connecting portion is connected with pre-buried part, and connecting portion is used to connect target piece to be assembled.The distance between connecting portion and pre-buried part is provided with sealing plate, the surface of sealing plate close to connecting portion is substantially flush with the surface of ornament body close to connecting portion, or the distance between the surface of sealing plate close to connecting portion and the end portion of connecting portion away from ornament body is less than the distance between the surface of ornament body close to connecting portion and the end portion of connecting portion away from ornament body.The present application solves the problem that the inner and outer trim structural member made of foamed material cannot be connected to hard point in the prior art.

The application relates to an electric vehicle suspension system arrangement checking method and device and a storage medium, which comprises the following steps: establishing an electric drive system rigid body model, then taking arrangement hard point coordinates and suspension dynamic stiffness of the electric drive system rigid body model as design variables, electric drive transient output torque and sweep excitation as independent variables, acceleration of the electric drive and acceleration of each suspension point as dependent variables to establish a calculation model; then comparing actual values of the dependent variables with optimization target values to adjust the arrangement hard point coordinates and the suspension dynamic stiffness meeting the requirements; the above steps are aimed at output characteristics of a power assembly of the electric vehicle, response analysis and simulation acceleration sweep excitation of each suspension point in the response analysis of the electric drive assembly transient working condition under the impact working condition are increased, so that the influence of a rapid torque rising speed of the electric vehicle is considered, and the arrangement hard point coordinates and the suspension dynamic stiffness are optimized and adjusted, and finally an arrangement scheme with small suspension point response and good NVH performance is obtained.

The application discloses a simulation opening and closing control method, device and equipment of a vehicle front cover model and a medium. The method comprises the following steps: based on the geometric relationship of a four-bar linkage hinge of the vehicle front cover model, and according to a first rotation angle of a first connecting rod in the four-bar linkage hinge, the first position coordinates of a first hard point and the second position coordinates of a second hard point in a rod part are calculated, and the front cover body part is transformed to an opening position or a closing position corresponding to the first rotation angle through a three-point alignment geometric transformation method; the opening and closing limit positions of the vehicle front cover model are automatically determined by iteratively adjusting the first rotation angle and detecting whether the rod part is interfered, and the iteration is stopped when the adjustment amount of the first rotation angle is less than a set tolerance and no interference occurs, and the first rotation angle corresponding to the stop of the iteration is determined as the limit opening angle or the limit closing angle of the vehicle front cover model. The technical scheme of the application can improve the simulation opening and closing control efficiency and the model precision of the front cover.

The invention provides an automatic modeling method and system for an automobile stabilizer bar, and relates to the technical field of vehicle chassis, the method realizes full-process automatic generation from hard point coordinates and structural parameters to a complete three-dimensional stabilizer bar model by integrating a hybrid design mode, parameterized input, automatic geometric construction and dynamic formula association in a CATIA V6 environment; according to the method, the modeling efficiency is remarkably improved, manual repeated operation is avoided, the model is ensured to have high editability and adaptivity by establishing dynamic association between parameters and geometric constraints, the whole stabilizer bar model can be automatically updated after any design parameter is modified, and the modeling efficiency is improved. Therefore, rapid scheme iteration is supported, the modeling process is standardized, and a consistent and reliable data foundation is laid for subsequent simulation analysis and engineering optimization.

The invention discloses a simulation opening and closing control method, device and equipment of a vehicle front cover model and a medium, and the method comprises the steps: based on the geometrical relationship of a four-connecting-rod hinge of the vehicle front cover model and according to the first rotation angle of a first connecting rod in the four-connecting-rod hinge, the first rotating angle of a second connecting rod in the four-connecting-rod hinge; calculating a first position coordinate of a first hard point and a second position coordinate of a second hard point in the rod piece part, and transforming the front cover main body part to an opening position or a closing position corresponding to a first rotation angle through a three-point alignment geometric transformation method; the opening and closing limit position of the vehicle front cover model is automatically determined by iteratively adjusting the first rotation angle and detecting whether the rod part is interfered or not, and iteration is stopped when the adjustment amount of the first rotation angle is smaller than the set tolerance and interference does not occur; and determining the corresponding first rotation angle when iteration is stopped as a limit opening angle or a limit closing angle of the vehicle front cover model. According to the technical scheme, the front cover simulation opening and closing control efficiency and the model precision can be improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of road noise analysis, and provides an uneven road impact noise analysis method and system and application, and the method comprises the steps: constructing a whole vehicle virtual model; constructing a road surface unevenness model, and setting a driving condition for the whole vehicle virtual model; performing operation simulation on the whole vehicle virtual model in the model with the uneven road surface, and collecting a dynamic load at a hard point of a chassis suspension; constructing a structural finite element model, and calculating a noise transfer function from a chassis suspension hard point to an in-vehicle target point; predicting the whole vehicle noise response under the target driving condition, and identifying a problem noise peak value and a corresponding problem frequency; and analyzing a chassis part stress value and a noise transfer function value under the problem frequency, judging a root of numerical value abnormity, and performing targeted optimization based on a root judgment result. The method can guide NVH to carry out uneven road impact noise optimization analysis in the earlier stage, solves the impact noise problem in the earlier virtual stage, and solves the problem of quietness of a real vehicle in the later stage at the maximum efficiency.

The embodiment of the invention provides a hard point adjustable steering knuckle and a vehicle, and relates to the technical field of automobiles. The steering knuckle with the adjustable hard point comprises a steering knuckle body, a rotating piece, a sliding piece and a supporting piece. A three-layer linkage adjusting structure is formed through the rotating piece, the sliding piece and the supporting piece, and precise adjustment and control of the hard point connecting piece in a three-dimensional space are achieved. The circumferential direction of the hard point connecting piece is adjusted through circumferential rotation of the rotating piece; the linear position of the hard point connecting piece in the first direction is adjusted through the sliding piece, and the linear position of the hard point connecting piece in the second direction is adjusted through the supporting piece. The three adjusting actions are mutually independent and do not interfere with one another, so that independent adjustment and accurate positioning of the hard point connecting piece at any position in a three-dimensional space are achieved. Therefore, the position of the hard point is directly adjusted in a real car test, and the mule car does not need to be redesigned and manufactured, so that the development period is shortened, and the cost is reduced.

The disclosure herein relates to a rear sub-frame assembly (100) for mounting a multi-link suspension (10) and motor (30) in a vehicle, and an assembling method (300) thereof. The assembly (100) includes a sub-frame (200), a plurality of motor mounting members (102,104), and a plurality of mounting members (110,120,130,140,150) for mounting multi-link suspension on the sub-frame. Each of a longitudinal member (206) of the sub-frame houses a front motor mounting member (102) near a front-end (200F), and accommodates hardpoints for mounting front upper and lower links in proximity to the member (102). A reinforcement member is disposed within the longitudinal member to provide structural support near the front end (200F). The assembly and method allow flexibility in positioning hardpoints, allows larger overhang, better strength to weight ratio, ease in maintenance.

Steering systems and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a vehicle frame and a steering linkage assembly including a drag link having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The apparatus further including at least one of: a hydraulic power assist system to couple to the vehicle frame, the hydraulic power assist system to couple to the first end of the drag link via a first pitman arm; or an electric power assist system to couple to the vehicle frame, the electric power assist system to couple to the first end of the drag link via a second pitman arm, the first pitman arm different than the second pitman arm to enable the first pitman arm and the second pitman to have a common pitman to hardpoint connection with the drag link of the steering linkage assembly.