Verifying Air Spring Systems

Chassis engineers are starting to resolve the conflict between comfort and driving stability in medium-class and luxury cars, even in extreme situations. The main challenges facing them as they strive to meet present-day standards are to engineer the suspension strut, and to design software-supported systems for air spring and damper control. To optimize the development times for production-level software, Continental AG is using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators and the ASM Vehicle Dynamics Simulation Package from dSPACE.