A system and method for utilizing an active valve customizable tune application is disclosed. The system includes a mobile device having a memory, an active valve tune application, and at least one processor. The processor initiates the active valve tune application, receives, from a database, an active valve suspension tune having a number of performance range adjustable settings, and receives user related input information. At least one of the performance range adjustable settings is modified based on the received input information to generate a modified active valve suspension tune. The system includes an active suspension of a vehicle, wherein the modified active valve suspension tune is implemented by the active suspension.

A connected component platform (CCP) is disclosed. The CCP receives user information and sensor derived data. The system also includes an overall data evaluator to access a performance database and use the user information in conjunction with information from the performance database to evaluate the received user information as a method to develop user guidance data in the area of suspension tuning and suspension maintenance recommendations. The system further includes a data evaluation results formator to receive the user guidance data from the overall data evaluator, format the user guidance data into a user accessible digital format, and output the user guidance data in the user accessible digital format.

Methods, systems and apparatus for providing a suspension adapted for a vehicle that moves along a surface. In response to a speed of the vehicle moving along the surface being greater than a threshold value, employing force provided by air flowing between a passenger compartment and an undercarriage to lift the passenger compartment away from direct physical contact with the undercarriage.

A vehicle suspension control system includes a controller configured to receive recorded information related to a location and severity of a surface irregularity to be traversed by a vehicle, determine a desired damping force based on the information, and send a damper adjustment signal based on the desired damping force. The vehicle suspension control system further includes an adjustable damper configured to adjust a damping force of the vehicle suspension system in response to the damper adjustment signal. Methods include controlling vehicle suspension systems and gather information related to irregularities in a surface.

A system for minimizing data transmission latency between a sensor and a suspension controller of a vehicle is described. The system includes: a state determination module that determines a physical state of the vehicle; a plurality of data paths for transmitting a first signal from the sensor to the suspension controller; a data path configurator of the controller that selects a first data path of the plurality of data paths based on at least one characteristic of the first data path and the physical state and configures the first data path to transmit the first signal; and an actuation module that generates an actuation signal to control a damping characteristic of the suspension actuator based on at least the first signal.

A vehicle height control apparatus considering a strong wind traveling situation may include: a strong wind zone determining unit for obtaining wind speed information of a current position by using map information to which the wind speed information is corresponded and current position information of a vehicle, and generating strong wind zone information by comparing the obtained wind speed information with a predetermined reference wind speed to determine a strong wind zone; a strong wind traveling situation determining unit for generating strong wind traveling situation information by determining the strong wind traveling situation based on the strong wind zone information and the vehicle speed information of the current position; and a control signal generating unit for generating a control signal of a vehicle height adjusting device according to the strong wind traveling situation information.

Vehicle body tilt, representing a difference between a vehicle body frame of reference and a wheel-base frame of reference, is determined by obtaining information from sensor assemblies for the vehicle body and for the wheel-base. Navigational solutions are generated for the sensor assemblies using motion sensor data from the assemblies and absolute navigational information. Correspondingly, vehicle body tilt is determined based at least in part on the vehicle body navigation solution and the wheel-base navigation solution.

Methods and apparatus for adjusting a suspension of a vehicle are described herein. An example apparatus includes a memory storing a plurality of suspension profiles. Each of the suspension profiles includes a stored performance parameter of a vehicle and a suspension setting. The apparatus includes a sensor to detect a driver performance parameter of a driver driving the vehicle. The driver performance parameter represents a behaviour of the driver of the vehicle. The apparatus further includes a processor to compare the driver performance parameter to at least one of the plurality of suspension profiles stored in the memory, and a controller to adjust a suspension of the vehicle according to a first suspension setting of a first suspension profile of the plurality of suspension profiles if the driver performance parameter corresponds to a first stored performance parameter of the first suspension profile.

A ride height control system for a vehicle includes a damper system configured to selectively adjust a ride height of the vehicle. The ride height control system includes a computer in communication with the damper system, the computer having a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to adjust the ride height of the vehicle upon determining that the vehicle will collide with a detected object.

Methods and systems for navigating a vehicle along a surface employ a scanner to scan a light beam over the surface; employ light reflected by one or more fiducial markers on the surface onto pixels of a receiver to determine a spatial arrangement of the fiducial markers on the surface; and compare the spatial arrangement of the fiducial markers with a predetermined map of the fiducial markers to determine a location of the vehicle.