Integrated chassis management: Notes

There were two main objectives in the development of Integrated Chassis Management (ICM):

• To increase the performance of the individual driving stability control
• To improve the interplay of the individual driving stability control systems

In every driving situation, the most suitable actuator can now be selected and activated to influence the driving dynamics as desired. Simultaneous deployment of several actuators can of course also make sense. An example of this could be brake intervention on individual wheels or a steering angle overridden by the Integral Active Steering. Another task of the ICM control unit is to provide the systems in the entire vehicle with the dynamic handling characteristics in the form of signals. This is why the DSC sensor, which used to be installed separately, is integrated in the ICM control unit. This enables all systems to access the same information provided by the ICM control unit. The consequence of this is that the causes of faults are reduced and the reliability of the systems is increased, especially in the case of networked systems.

A particular experience for the customer is the coherent driving characteristics due the new Dynamic Driving Control. The driving dynamic control switch is used to operate Dynamic Driving Control. There are 4 programs that can be selected for

Dynamic Driving Control:

1. COMFORT
2. NORMAL
3. SPORT
4. SPORT+