Patent Document ID: 20140297117
Application ID: 14242705
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A distributed suspension control system, comprising: a plurality of active suspension actuators disposed throughout a vehicle so that each active suspension actuator is associated with a single vehicle wheel; a plurality of active suspension actuator controllers disposed so that each active suspension actuator is associated with a separate controller; a communication network for facilitating communication of vehicle control and sensing information among the plurality of controllers; and at least one sensor disposed with each controller to provide at least one of vehicle chassis motion information and vehicle wheel motion information to the controller, wherein each controller processes information provided by its sensors to execute a wheel-specific suspension protocol to control the single vehicle wheel with which it is associated, and each controller of the plurality of controllers processes information received over the communication network from any of the other controllers in the plurality of controllers to execute a vehicle-wide suspension protocol to cooperatively control vehicle motion.