Active car suspensions with multiple actuation: a method for simultaneous camber and toe control

Active suspensions, designed according to great variety of strategies, are in-creasingly adopted in high-performance cars to improve vehicle dynamics. In the process of structure first - control next, a method has been developed for a first insight into simultaneous camber and toe control in active suspen-sions with actuation. The method, based on multibody models of suspension mechanisms and on maps of the controlled parameters (camber, toe) with re-spect to positions of the actuators, has been applied in straight running ahead and steady-state stationary cornering.