Abstract: A gas spring system of a vehicle includes a multi-chamber gas spring associated with each vehicle wheel. Each multi-chamber gas spring comprises a main chamber and at least one auxiliary chamber connectable to the main chamber, such that the spring rigidity of the multi-chamber gas springs can be changed. A control device determines a target axle rigidity as a function of a guide lateral acceleration and adjusts the target rigidity. The spring rigidity of the multi-chamber gas spring located on an inner side of the vehicle (relative to a curve traversed by the vehicle) is first changed. The spring rigidities of the multi-chamber gas springs of a vehicle axle are changed in stages in an alternating fashion.

Abstract: A gas spring system of a vehicle includes a multi-chamber gas spring associated with each vehicle wheel. Each multi-chamber gas spring comprises a main chamber and at least one auxiliary chamber connectable to the main chamber, such that the spring rigidity of the multi-chamber gas springs can be changed. A control device determines a target axle rigidity as a function of a guide lateral acceleration and adjusts the target rigidity. The spring rigidity of the multi-chamber gas spring located on an inner side of the vehicle (relative to a curve traversed by the vehicle) is first changed. The spring rigidities of the multi-chamber gas springs of a vehicle axle are changed in stages in an alternating fashion.

Abstract: A cascaded overall actuating system for a vehicle motion simulator is divided into an actuating system for small, high-frequency movements and an actuating system for large, low-frequency movements. A manipulator for implementing the low-frequency excitations is itself composed as a cascaded system of a rotary plate, a six-axle movement unit and a horizontal displacement device. To simulate movements which are as low in frequency as possible, the horizontal displacement device spans, as the actuator stage which is arranged at the lowest point in the cascade, a large movement area of 40 m×40 m. The six-axle movement unit with rotary plate and high-frequency actuating system is mounted on a carrier carriage which is supported in a freely displaceable fashion on a planar base surface bounded by the displacement paths of the horizontal displacement device and is pulled and/or pushed with respect to this base surface by means of the horizontal displacement device.

Abstract: In a control device for influencing the driving dynamics of four-wheel vehicles, the vehicle lengthwise speed and the steering angle are introduced as input signals and control signals are generated that act on positioning devices for adjusting the vehicle wheels. In order to set and adjust the transverse dynamic properties of a vehicle with a low cost of construction in normal driving, for setting a desired driving behavior, target values may be specified for the steering ratio, the self-steering gradient, and the float angle gradient as set signals from which steady-state additional trail angles can be determined which can be supplied as control signals to the positioning devices.