Patent ID: 11932072
Assignee: DRIV AUTOMOTIVE INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 14:
15. A method of controlling a suspension system for a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
receiving unsprung mass acceleration data from an unsprung mass accelerometer positioned at each wheel of the vehicle;
retrieving vehicle location data from a global positioning system (GPS) module mounted in the vehicle;
establishing a connection to a cloud-based network and retrieving pre-emptive event classification data from the cloud-based network;
determining if a road event is approaching and generating pre-emptive road event classification information based at least in part on the vehicle location data from the global positioning system (GPS) module and the pre-emptive event classification data from the cloud connection;
setting both a threshold based suspension pre-setting and a threshold based pre-trigger for an approaching road event based on the pre-emptive road event classification information;
monitoring the unsprung mass acceleration data and calculating a slope value for the unsprung mass acceleration data when an event detection flag is armed; and
activating a suspension control action for the road event if both the unsprung mass acceleration data exceeds the threshold based pre-trigger and the slope value that was calculated for the unsprung mass acceleration data exceeds a maximum slope value.