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This reminds me of a researcher I met, they were proposing to add a vast array of sensors to each wheel of a military vehicle that had at minimum 8 wheels. Ever
by gene-h 10y ago
This reminds me of a researcher I met, they were proposing to add a vast array of sensors to each wheel of a military vehicle that had at minimum 8 wheels. Every wheel would have rotation sensors, torque sensors, vibration sensors, a camera looking ahead, a camera looking behind, lidar looking ahead, lidar looking behind, and ground penetrating radar.
The idea being that you could know exactly what sort of terrain you were on and what terrain you were going to hit so an active suspension could compensate. The case of the sensors looking behind was interesting, the idea there is that you'd measure how much you deformed the terrain to better understand what you were moving.
Oh and said military vehicle was going to be omnidirectional with each wheel capable of independent rotation, steering, and height change.(for the active suspension)
- Viper007Bond 10y agoSome cars with active suspension sort of do this. The front shocks tell the rear ones what is coming and they adjust their properties to compensate.
- agumonkey 10y agoThe bose based suspensions ? I wonder how many got sold.
- Viper007Bond 10y agoNo, even things like the new Mustang GT350. Basically anything with active suspension that a lot of performance cars now have.
- hcrisp 10y agoMercedes was apparently the first to do this with a camera in their "magic body control" suspension system. http://youtu.be/ScpgI1w5F6A http://youtu.be/ScpgI1w5F6A Related, hilarious Mercedes chicken ad: http://youtu.be/TzhLIc6c4DU http://youtu.be/TzhLIc6c4DU
- andrewtbham 10y agoMercedes was the first to commercialize it but Bose had an earlier implementation and... the crazy part. It would jump over stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3gX2HwFf5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3gX2HwFf5I