INTEGRATED CONTROL OF ACTIVE CHASSIS SYSTEMS FOR MILITARY VEHICLE APPLICATIONS

Future wheeled and tracked military vehicles will be equipped with multiple active chassis control systems, as systems currently in widespread use on passenger and commercial vehicles such as brake-based electronic stability control are implemented on military vehicles. It is essential that these systems work in an integrated fashion to avoid negative interactions between systems. The approach currently used to achieve integrated control in the passenger and commercial vehicle segments requires extensive tuning and development of the individual systems through cooperative efforts of the vehicle and active chassis system manufacturers, an approach that would generally not be feasible in the military vehicle segment. This paper presents a simple approach for achieving integrated control of multiple active chassis systems that is tailored to the unique commercial and developmental challenges faced by military vehicles.