Ride comfort evaluation of predictive ride height and damper control adaptation on single obstacles

Current trends and legislative changes like autonomous driving, emission regulations and connected vehicles lead to new challenges and opportunities for the automotive industry. Recent studies showed that customers expect more comfort and consider it as a purchase criterion in manually driven vehicles [1] as well as in autonomous vehicles [2]. In addition, efficiency continues to gain importance to reduce the emissions of vehicles with internal combustion engines and to increase the range of battery electric and hybrid vehicles [3].