Vehicle Suspension Profile Matching for Driver Behavior Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle suspension adjustment technologies primarily focus on immediate road conditions and lack the ability to 'learn' from the driver's behavior, resulting in suboptimal ride comfort and handling.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a memory storing suspension profiles, sensors to detect driver performance parameters, and a processor to compare these parameters with stored profiles, automatically adjusting the suspension settings to match the driver's preferred settings based on behavior and location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If suspension adjustment systems focus only on immediate road conditions, then the system complexity is reduced, but the ride comfort and handling performance deteriorate due to lack of driver behavior adaptation
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores multiple suspension profiles in memory, each corresponding to different driver behavior patterns and road conditions. When the system detects a match between current driver behavior and a stored profile, it automatically applies the corresponding suspension settings without requiring real-time complex calculations, thus improving ride comfort while maintaining manageable system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors driver behavior parameters and compares them against stored profiles. This feedback mechanism allows the system to adapt suspension settings dynamically based on detected driver patterns, enhancing both ride comfort and handling performance while keeping the control logic structured and manageable through profile-based comparison.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the suspension system uses open-loop control without learning capability, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to driver behavior deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores multiple suspension profiles in memory, each corresponding to different driver behavior patterns and road conditions. When the system detects a match between current driver behavior and a stored profile, it automatically applies the corresponding suspension settings without requiring real-time complex calculations, thus improving ride comfort while maintaining manageable system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors driver behavior parameters and compares them against stored profiles. This feedback mechanism allows the system to adapt suspension settings dynamically based on detected driver patterns, enhancing both ride comfort and handling performance while keeping the control logic structured and manageable through profile-based comparison.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system stores and processes multiple suspension profiles, then the adaptability to different driving styles is improved, but the memory requirements and processing complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores multiple suspension profiles in memory, each corresponding to different driver behavior patterns and road conditions. When the system detects a match between current driver behavior and a stored profile, it automatically applies the corresponding suspension settings without requiring real-time complex calculations, thus improving ride comfort while maintaining manageable system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and apparatus for adjusting a suspension of a vehicle are described herein. An example apparatus includes a memory storing a plurality of suspension profiles. Each of the suspension profiles includes a stored performance parameter of a vehicle and a suspension setting. The apparatus includes a sensor to detect a driver performance parameter of a driver driving the vehicle. The driver performance parameter represents a behaviour of the driver of the vehicle. The apparatus further includes a processor to compare the driver performance parameter to at least one of the plurality of suspension profiles stored in the memory, and a controller to adjust a suspension of the vehicle according to a first suspension setting of a first suspension profile of the plurality of suspension profiles if the driver performance parameter corresponds to a first stored performance parameter of the first suspension profile.