High Capability Off-Road Active Suspension System

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate Fluid Ride LTD's patented Compressible Fluid Active Suspension Technology CFAST ability to improve soft soil mobility and mitigate road breakaway rollovers on a 10-37 ton wheeled vehicle. The US Armed Forces see too many roll-overs and missions compromised due to vehicles stuck in a no-goCFAST has shown the potential to improve through successful October 2012 CRADA shaker test and present SBIR Phase I virtual demonstration. CFAST Pump and Strut core technologies are now production-feasible: Fluid Ride can deliver affordable, durable and robust, high-performance active suspension systems. In this Phase II project, Fluid Ride will utilize the Phase 1 models + simulation results and will refine the model to simulate the actual vehicle selected, and continue to develop controls to walk or improve soft-soil mobility, and to sense and mitigate rollovers. Fluid Ride will then build a CFAST-equipped demonstration vehicle to prove functionality in the real world. Successful Phase II results will include real-world demonstration of CFAST's ability to successfully walk the vehicle out of soft soil and mitigate rollover.