TY - JOUR TI - Driver comfort improvement by a selection of optimal springing of a seat AU - Tengler, Szymon AU - Warwas, Kornel TI - Driver comfort improvement by a selection of optimal springing of a seat AB - An optimal way to select parameters of a driver’s seat of a special vehicle, which contributes directly to an increase in driving comfort is presented in the work. A mathematical model of the vehicle was formulated by using of joint coordinates and homogenous transformations. A maneuver of driving over obstacles in a form of a speed bump of different heights and lengths is presented. A subject of the investigations was to select such damping parameters and driver’s seat stiffness to minimize amplitudes of vibrations present in this subassembly. An influence of a form of an objective function and a selection of decisive variables on quality of the optimization results obtained was analyzed. VL - 2017 IS - Volume 5 Year 2017 (114) PY - 2017 SN - 0011-4561 C1 - 2353-737X SP - 217 EP - 235 DO - 10.4467/2353737XCT.17.083.6440 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/czasopismo-techniczne/article/poprawa-komfortu-kierowcy-poprzez-dobor-optymalnego-resorowania-fotela KW - active suspension KW - drive comfort KW - dynamic optimization KW - computer modeling