Active Body Control Of Ford Transit Connect Using Semi-Active Suspensions

Ford has the overall engineering and sign - off responsibility of Transit and Transit Connect.
Ford Otosan is a design and development partner of Ford in current and future Transit Connect product programs.
Ford Otosan is the lead plant PVT for Transit and Transit Connect
Ford Otosan is leading the design and development of Puma I5 for use in export and domestic Transits.
Ford Otosan has the overall engineering responsibility of Cargo Heavy truck and Ecotorq Engine.
Due to the high level of competition in automotive industry, demand for safety and comfort is increasing while development time and costs need to be reduced. This introduces real challenge for Motor Companies and especially for PD engineers.
Safety in road vehicles is an important aspect and therefore many automobile industries are interested in developing vehicle safety systems such as ABS, TCS, ESP etc... However, performance is also an important actor next to safety issues.
In Ford Otosan Chassis Engineering Department, we have started a project to adopt a semi-active suspension system to our light comercial vehicle.
This project is about the development of an active body control (TABC) system for the Ford Transit Connect using semi active suspensions. The control objective is to improve the ride comfort and road holding together with achieving roll and pitch stability using four semi active suspension dampers.
All study was completed by Otosan PD engineers and ITU team. The aim of the project is to build know-how about new technologies in Otosan PD department, improve technical capabilities of PD engineers and build a prototype light commercial vehicle with its unique controllers.

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