Automatic Ground Clearance Mechanism for Four-wheeler

Gaurav Chhangani; Tejas Mawale; Priyanka Ingle; Raihan Sheikh; A. S. Choudhary

Abstract

In current scenario, the automobile sector has come up with the advanced technologies that providesgreat comfort to the customer. As today each and every person wants to be in comfort zone and safetyand people do like to go on adventurous trips or on long drive as their hobbies. As when we heard theterm adventure it comes up with off roading, driving on mountain roads and so on. But when we go foroff roading the term ground clearance of vehicle matters a lot because of low ground clearance ofvehicle at off road condition it causes damage to the chassis as well as other parts of vehicle too alsoit me lead to major accident. As if sufficient ground clearance is achieved then there will be a greatdriving comfort, it also prevents the damaging of vehicles on off road conditions and provide bettervisually. The main reason behind the research is to provide driving comfort by adjusting the groundclearance as well as to prevent the vehicle from any damage and accident. So, to achieve comfortconditions and to prevent a damage or accident the automatic ground clearance can be adjusted as perneed of road conditions this is possible with the help of sum of few mechanisms, so the adjustment ofground clearance of four-wheeler is studied and fabricated. To adjust the ground clearance, we useboth active as well as passive suspension. By this mechanism, we can increase the ground clearance ofthe vehicle by 75 mm. For detecting the obstacle to adjust the ground clearance of mechanism we mustuse sensors. Here in this system, the automatic adjustment in the ground clearance of the car can beachieved due to which we can get comfort in off road conditions too. The system will be mostly usefuland suitable to military vehicles and small passenger cars. By means of this mechanism economic ofthe vehicle is also get increase, maximum output of vehicle is possible.