Modeling and Simulation of a Displacement Controllable Active Suspension System

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beibei Liu ◽  
Lin Xu ◽  
Zhen Zhao ◽  
Mohamed A. A. Abdelkareem ◽  
Junyi Zou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Control ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Body Position ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Dynamic State

Active suspension can adapt itself to the rigidity and the damping characteristics based on the vehicle dynamic state and the road condition, making the suspension in the best state of shock absorbing, which can increase the handling stability, the ride comfort and the passing ability of vehicles. As for strikingly rugged roads like off-road conditions, the traditional active suspension can hardly balance the contradiction between the wheel adhesion and the vertical accelerated speed of the body. In this paper, an active suspension in which the position of the vehicle body can be adjusted is proposed. In the proposed suspension, a series of electric cylinders are installed, which can actively adjust the position between the vehicle body and the suspension in order to achieve the purpose of controlling the relative body-wheels position. In this manner, AMESim is used to set up three suspension designs which include suspension supporter adaptation equipment with different locations in the system. Through simulation analysis, the paper has explored the feasibility of the vehicle attitude control of the three suspension designs under off-road conditions. The results proved that the active suspension system with adjustable body position can restrain the body roll or pitch efficiently in which this technology can be applied to the body attitude control when ORVs are at high speed.

Body attitude control strategy based on road level for heavy rescue vehicles

2020 ◽  
pp. 095440702096616
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Mingde Gong ◽  
Dingxuan Zhao ◽  
Jianxu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
Attitude Control ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Vertical Acceleration ◽  
Inference System ◽  
The Road ◽  
Body Attitude

This paper proposes an attitude control strategy based on road level for heavy rescue vehicles. The strategy aims to address the problem of poor ride comfort and stability of heavy rescue vehicles in complex road conditions. Firstly, with the pressure of the suspension hydraulic cylinder chamber without a piston rod as the parameter, Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy controller classification and adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system controller classification are used to recognise the road level. Secondly, particle swarm optimisation is adopted to obtain the optimal parameters of the active suspension system of vehicle body attitude control under different road levels. Lastly, the parameters of the active suspension system are selected in accordance with the road level recognised in the driving process to improve the adaptive adjustment capability of the active suspension system at different road levels. Test results show that the root mean square values of vertical acceleration, pitch angle and roll angle of the vehicle body are reduced by 59.9%, 76.2% and 68.4%, respectively. This reduction improves the ride comfort and stability of heavy rescue vehicles in complex road conditions.

scholarly journals Optimal Control of an 8-DOF Vehicle Active Suspension System Using Kalman Observer

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hossein Sadati ◽  
Salar Malekzadeh ◽  
Masood Ghasemi
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Seat Suspension ◽  
Handling Characteristics ◽  
Road Profile ◽  
Passive Suspension System

In this paper, an 8-DOF model including driver seat dynamics, subjected to random road disturbances is used in order to investigate the advantage of active over conventional passive suspension system. Force actuators are mounted parallel to the body suspensions and the driver seat suspension. An optimal control approach is taken in the active suspension used in the vehicle. The performance index for the optimal control design is a quantification of both ride comfort and road handling. To simulate the real road profile condition, stochastic inputs are applied. Due to practical limitations, not all the states of the system required for the state-feedback controller are measurable, and hence must be estimated with an observer. In this paper, to have the best estimation, an optimal Kalman observer is used. The simulation results indicate that an optimal observer-based controller causes both excellent ride comfort and road handling characteristics.

Design of Fuzzy-PID Controller for Ride Comfort Enhancement of a Half-Vehicle with Active Suspension System

2013 ◽  
Vol 313-314 ◽  
pp. 382-386
Author(s):  
Wen Kui Lan ◽  
Er Dong Ni
Keyword(s):  
Pid Controller ◽  
Passive Control ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fuzzy Pid ◽  
Vehicle Model ◽  
Fuzzy Pid Controller

A fuzzy-PID controller is developed and applied to the active suspension system for the ride comfort enhancement of a half-vehicle model. A four degree-of-freedom vehicle model with active suspension system is proposed, which focused on the passenger’s ride comfort performance, and a fuzzy-PID controller is developed by incorporating the fuzzy logic control mechanism into the modifications of the PID structure. The performance of the proposed controller has been verified by comparing it with passive control method in MATLAB/Simulink. The simulation results indicate that the developed fuzzy-PID controller enhances the ride comfort performance of the vehicle active suspension system by reducing the body acceleration and pitch angle significantly.

Fuzzy Control of Vehicle Suspension System

2011 ◽  
Vol 383-390 ◽  
pp. 2012-2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo Quan Yang ◽  
You Qun Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Control ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Fuzzy Controller ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Vehicle Suspension ◽  
Body Acceleration ◽  
Vehicle Suspension System ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Technique

In this paper, a semi-active suspension system has been proposed to improve the ride comfort, and a 2 DOF vehicle system is designed to simulate the actions of vehicle suspension system. The purpose of a suspension system is to support the vehicle body and increase ride comfort. The aim of the work described in the paper was to illustrate the application of fuzzy logic technique to the control of a continuously damping automotive suspension system. The ride comfort is improved by means of the reduction of the body acceleration caused by the car body when road disturbances from smooth road and real road roughness. Based on MATLAB fuzzy control toolbox, fuzzy controller is designed. Simulation analysis of suspension system is preceded by using MATLAB/Simulink7.0. The result shows that this control can improve the body acceleration, suspension distortion etc.

Suspension System Control with Fuzzy Logic

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Alireza Rezaee ◽  
Mazyar Pajohesh
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Fuzzy Controller ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
The Body ◽  
System Control ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Passive Suspension ◽  
Road Disturbance

In this paper, fuzzy logic is used to control active suspension of one-quarter car model. The main role of a car suspension system is to improve the ride comfort and to better the handling property. It usually consists of a spring and a damper to improve the properties of suspension system. The fuzzy logic method is one of the most active research and developments areas on artificial and intelligence at the present time, particularly in the automobile industry. One quarter of car if modeled by springs, masses, dampers and force actuator and the state space equations are derived by lagrangian method. The ride comfort is improved by means of the reduction of the body acceleration caused by the car body when road disturbance from uneven road surfaces, pavement point etc. act on the tires of running car. Here, a logic fuzzy controller is designed in which, the number of rule bases are reduced in comparison with some traditional one which have been introduced in other papers. At the end, a comparison of active suspension fuzzy control and traditional passive suspension is shown using MATLAB simulations. Results show that, active suspension improves the ride comfort by reducing acceleration, compared with the performance of passive suspension.

Fuzzy Control and Co-Simulation of Automobile Semi-Active Suspension System Based on SIMPACK and MATLAB

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 50-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shao Yi Bei ◽  
Jing Bo Zhao ◽  
Lan Chun Zhang ◽  
Shao Hua Liu
Keyword(s):  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Fuzzy Controller ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vertical Acceleration ◽  
Passive Suspension ◽  
Pulse Input ◽  
Car Model

Using the multi-body simulation software SIMPACK as platform, a whole CHANGHE mini-car model was built. A fuzzy controller was adopted based on MATLAB/SIMULINK software to control the full car model. Pulse input running test simulation was carried out under co-simulation of SIMAT. The results showed that compared to passive suspension, with the speed 40km/h, the body vertical acceleration, body pitch angular velocity, standard deviation and peak were respectively decreased by 10.76%, 18.03% and 20.48%, 12.13%. The semi-active suspension system with fuzzy controller had better performance than passive suspension, reduced vibration effectively and improved automotive ride comfort.

Comparison of PID and Fuzzy Controller for Automobile Suspension System

2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 671-676
Author(s):  
Nemat Changizi ◽  
Asef Zare ◽  
Nooshin Sheiie ◽  
Mahbubeh Moghadas
Keyword(s):  
Pid Control ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Fuzzy Controller ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Road Roughness ◽  
Automobile Suspension ◽  
Automotive Suspension ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Technique

The main aim of suspension system is to isolate a vehicle body from road irregularities in order to maximize passenger ride comfort and retain continuous road wheel contact in order to provide road holding. The aim of the work described in the paper was to illustrate the application of fuzzy logic technique to the control of a continuously damping automotive suspension system. The ride comfort is improved by means of the reduction of the body acceleration caused by the car body when road disturbances from smooth road and real road roughness. The paper describes also the model and controller used in the study and discusses the vehicle response results obtained from a range of road input simulations. In the conclusion, a comparison of active suspension fuzzy control and Proportional Integration derivative (PID) control is shown using MATLAB simulations.

Fuzzy Controller for Semi-Active Automobile Suspension System under Random Profiled Road Input

2014 ◽  
Vol 668-669 ◽  
pp. 474-477
Author(s):  
Qi Hua Ma ◽  
Jing Luo ◽  
Chun Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Fuzzy Controller ◽  
Dynamic Performance ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Passive Suspension ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Set Up

The suspension system is one of the most important parts of the automobile. The suspension system has an important influence on the ride comfort and maneuverable stability of the automobile. As structure parameters of traditional passive suspension cannot adaptively change with external conditions, the improvement of dynamic performance is difficult. Tow-DOF and four-DOF suspension of vehicle model is set up in this paper. Under random profiled road input simulated by using Runge-Kutta method, the control laws of fuzzy controller are adjusted by using different weight coefficients and use Matlab software to simulate the performances. Then, the results are compared and the performances are analyzed between passive suspension and semi-active suspension. The simulation results show the semi-active suspension is more effective for decreasing the vibration of vehicle body than the passive suspension, and designed fuzzy controller is effective for controlling the active controller of the semi-active suspension.

Research on Optimal Control and Simulation for Active Suspension Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 340 ◽  
pp. 631-635
Author(s):  
Yong Fa Qin ◽  
Jie Hua ◽  
Long Wei Geng
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Mathematic Model ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Vertical Acceleration ◽  
The Road ◽  
Suspension Systems ◽  
Active Suspension Systems

Vehicles with active suspension systems become more ride comfort and maneuverable stability, many types of active suspensions have been applied to passenger vehicles, but one of the shortcomings of an active susupension system is that the additional control power consumption is needed. The core issues of designing an active suspension system are to minimiaze vibration magnitute and control energy comsuption of the active suspension system. A new mathematic model for an active suspension system is established based on vehicle dynamics and modern control theory. An optimal control law is constructed through solving the Riccati equation, and then the transfer function is deduced to describe the relationship between the vetical velosity of the road roughness and the output of suspension system. Three typical parameters of vehicle ride comfort are researched, such as vertical acceleration of vehicle body, dynamic deflection of suspension system and dynamic deformation of tires. A case of a quarter vehicle model is studied by simulation to show that the proposed method of modeling and designing optimal controller are suitable to develop active suspension systems.

Vehicle attitude compensation control of magneto-rheological semi-active suspension based on state observer

2021 ◽  
pp. 095440702110208
Author(s):  
Ruochen Wang ◽  
Fupeng Sheng ◽  
Renkai Ding ◽  
Xiangpeng Meng ◽  
Zeyun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Control Algorithm ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
State Observer ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Velocity Signal ◽  
Compensation Control ◽  
Body Attitude ◽  
Magneto Rheological

This paper presents a vehicle attitude compensation algorithm based on state observer for vehicle semi-active suspension system equipped with four magneto-rheological dampers (MR dampers). The proposed algorithm including magneto-rheological damper control algorithm, attitude compensation control algorithm, and design method of state observer is to effectively improve ride comfort and control vehicle body attitude. First, the actual equivalent damping of magneto-rheological damper is introduced into state observer, and the parameter matrix of suspension system is updated in real time via precise discretization method to enhance the estimation accuracy of state observer. Then, the velocity signal estimated by state observer is employed as the evidence to realize attitude compensation control for vehicle body. Finally, relevant co-simulations and hardware-in-the-loop test are conducted to verify the validity of the proposed control algorithm. Results of simulations and tests demonstrate that the application of the control algorithm proposed in this paper can significantly improve ride comfort of magneto-rheological suspension and optimize vehicle body attitude.

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