Patent ID: 8825294

Claim:
A center of gravity control system for a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of ground engaging traction devices connected to the vehicle by suspension elements; a plurality of actuators connected to the suspension elements, the plurality of actuators configured to be activated to shift a center of gravity of the vehicle; a plurality of sensors positioned about the vehicle; and a controller connected to each of said plurality of actuators, said controller configured to receive information from said plurality of sensors, said information relating to at least one of mass distributions of the vehicle and mass distributions of loads carried by the vehicle thereby defining distributed masses, and said controller configured to compute a detected center of gravity of the vehicle based on the information and to compute at least one alteration of said actuators needed to reduce a value of a difference between said detected center of gravity of the vehicle and a desired center of gravity using a fuzzy relations control strategy, wherein based on the computed alteration said controller is configured to activate at least one of said plurality of actuators connected to the suspension elements of the vehicle to shift the center of gravity of the vehicle.