Magnetorheological Damper Control for Semi-active Suspension System Using Skyhook-Differential Evolution

Author(s):  
Mat Hussin Ab Talib ◽  
Mohd Ariff Durranie Muhammad Afandi ◽  
Intan Zaurah Mat Darus ◽  
Hanim Mohd Yatim ◽  
Zainab Asus ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 699 ◽  
pp. 283-288
Author(s):  
Mohamad Hafiz Harun ◽  
Fauzi Ahmad ◽  
Mohd Razali Md Yunos ◽  
Ahmad Kamal Mat Yamin

Passenger ride comfort is an important factor in railway vehicle services. However, passenger ride comfort is sometimes affected by the vibrations resulting from the track irregularities. It will be critical when the track is exposed to prolonged sun’s heat and lack of track maintenance. This means that the optimization of passive suspension parameters alone could not cope with these cases. Semi-active suspension system for railway vehicles has been developed as a way to solve these problems. The technology of semi-active suspension is widely used especially in the railway vehicle application. Magnetorheological (MR) damper is one of the applications of the concept of semi-active suspension. However, there are a variety of criteria for MR dampers based on usage. To meet the requirements of railway vehicle suspension system, a MR damper have been developed. The criteria for the MR damper are obtained experimentally. Then, the model for the MR damper is developed using Interpolated Sixth Order Polynomial and validated by experimental. The MR damper model has shown improvement, especially in the railway vehicle dynamics performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 168781402199952
Author(s):  
Birhan Abebaw Negash ◽  
Wonhee You ◽  
Jinho Lee ◽  
Changyoung Lee ◽  
Kwansup Lee

A suspension system is one of the integral parts of a hyperloop capsule train, which is used to isolate the car-body from bogie vibration to provide a safer and comfortable service. A semi-active suspension system is one of the best candidates for its advantageous features. The performance of a semi-active suspension system relies greatly on the control strategy applied. In this article, Skyhook (SH) and mixed Skyhook-Acceleration Driven Damper (SH-ADD) controlling algorithms are adopted for a nonlinear quarter-car model of a capsule with semi-active magnetorheological damper. The nonlinear vertical dynamic response and performance of the proposed control algorithms are evaluated under MATLAB Simulink environment and hardware-in-loop-system (HILS) environment. The SH controlled semi-active suspension system performance is found to be better at the first resonance frequency and worse at the second resonance frequency than the passive MR damper, but the mixed SH-ADD controlled semi-active suspension system performs better than the passive at all frequency domains. Taking the root-mean-square (RMS) value of sprung mass vertical displacement as an evaluation criterion, the response is reduced by 58.49% with mixed SH-ADD controller and by 54.49% with the SH controller compared to the passive MR damper suspension.


Author(s):  
Alexandru Dobre

In the context of improving the comfort and dynamics of the vehicle, the suspension system has been continuously developed and improved, especially using magnetorheological (MR) shock absorbers. The development of this technology which is relatively new has not been easy. Thus, the first widespread commercial use of MR fluid in a semi-active suspension system was implemented in passenger cars. The magnetorheological shock absorber can combine the comfort with the dynamic driving, because it allows the damping characteristic to be adapted to the road profile. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the dynamic behavior of the magnetorheological shock absorber in the semi-active suspension. In this sense, the author carried out a set of experimental measurements with a damping test bench, specially built and equipped with modern equipment. The results obtained from the experimental determinations show a significantly improved comfort when using a magnetorheological shock absorber, compared to a classic one, by the fact that the magnetorheological shock absorber allows to modify the damping coefficient according to the road conditions, thus maintaining the permanent contact between the tire and the road due to increased damping force.


2013 ◽  
Vol 482 ◽  
pp. 150-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Zhao Peng ◽  
Jin Qiu Zhang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Da Shan Huang

A semi-active suspension system is researched for a heavy tracked vehicle to improve its suspension performance. This is achieved through a vane magnetorheological damper (VMRD) with special magnetic circuit which may attenuate the leak of MRF from assembly gap. A innovative strategy named frequency domain control (FDC) is proposed based on a conclusion that, in the frequency domain,the influence of damping coefficient to transmissibility for different suspension performance indicators is in good consistency. FDC only requires accelerometers mounted on sprung mass, meaning low price and high reliability that the tracked vehicle requires. The experiment indicates the designed semi-active suspension system based on VMRFD has an excellent vibration suppressing ability.


2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1334-1353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sy Dzung Nguyen ◽  
Quoc Hung Nguyen

This paper focuses on building a controller for active suspension system of train cars in the case that the sprung mass and model error are uncertainty parameters. The sprung mass is always varied due to many reasons such as changing of the passengers and load or impacting of wind on the operating train while an unknown difference between the suspension model used for survey and the real suspension system also always exists. The controller is built based on an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), sliding mode control, uncertainty observer (NFSmUoC) and a magnetorheological damper (MRD) which can be seen as an actuator for applying active force. A nonlinear uncertainty observer (NUO), a sliding mode controller (SMC) together with an inverse model of the MRD are designed in order to calculate the current value by which the MRD creates the required active control force u( t). An ANFIS and measured MR-damper-dynamic-response data sets are used to identify the MRD as an inverse MRD model (ANFIS-I-MRD). Based on dynamic response of the suspension, firstly the active control force u( t) is calculated by NUO and SMC, in which the impact of the uncertainty load on the system is estimated by the NUO. The ANFIS-I-MRD is then used to estimate applied current for the MRD in order to create the calculated active control force to control vertical vibration status of the train cars. Simulation surveys are carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


Author(s):  
D.V.A.R. Sastry ◽  
K.V. Ramana ◽  
N.M. Rao ◽  
P. Pruthvi ◽  
D.U.V. Santhosh

Magnetorheological (MR) dampers are evolving as one of the most promising devices for semi-active vibration control of various dynamic systems. In this paper, the suspension system of a car using MR damper is analysed for 2DOF quarter car and 4DOF half car models and then compared with corresponding suspension system using passive damper for ride comfort and handling. Magnetorheological damper is fabricated using a MR fluid of Carbonyl iron powder and Silicone oil added with additive. Experiments are conducted to establish the behaviour of the MR damper and are used to validate Spencer model for MR damper. Further, using the validated Spencer model of MR damper, the quarter car and half car models of Vehicle Suspension system are simulated by implementing a semi-active suspension system for analysing the resulting displacement and acceleration in the car body. The ride comfort and vehicle handling performance of each specific vehicle model with passive suspension system are compared with corresponding semi-active suspension system. The simulation and analysis are carried out using MATLAB/SIMULINK.


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