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Abstract

An active suspension for a vehicle including cylinder-piston type actuators each supporting the vehicle body relative to each of front right, front left, rear right and rear left wheels, height sensors for detecting height Hfr, Hfl, Hrr and Hrl of the vehicle body at the front right, the front left, the rear right and the rear left wheel, and a calculation control device which calculates based on height signals from the height sensors a bounce amount B and a pitch amount P with respect to the road surface from a standard state of the vehicle body according to: B=Kb (Hfr+Hfl+Hrr+Hrl-4H) P=Kp {(Hrr+Hrl)-(Hfr+Hfl)} (where Kb and Kp are positive coefficients, and H is the mean value of standard vehicle heights of the portions of the vehicle body corresponding to respective wheels at the standard state of the vehicle body), calculates based on the amount B and P the supporting force for the actuators necessary to reduce the bounce and the pitch amount, and controls the actuators based on the calculation results to increase or decrease the force acting between the wheels and the vehicle body through the actuators.

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