Research on the Decoupling Control Algorithm of Full Vehicle Semi-Active Suspension

Abstract:

Vehicle suspension is a MIMO coupling nonlinear system; its vibration couples that of the tires. When magneto-rheological dampers are adopted to attenuate vibration of the sprung mass, the damping forces of the dampers need to be distributed. For the suspension without decoupling, the vibration attenuation is difficult to be controlled precisely. In order to attenuate the vibration of the vehicle effectively, a nonlinear full vehicle semi-active suspension model is proposed. Considering the realization of the control of magneto-rheological dampers, a hysteretic polynomial damper model is adopted. A differential geometry approach is used to decouple the nonlinear suspension system, so that the wheels and sprung mass become independent linear subsystems and independent to each other. A control rule of vibration attenuation is designed, by which the control current applied to the magneto-rheological damper is calculated, and used for the decoupled suspension system. The simulations show that the acceleration of the sprung mass is attenuated greatly, which indicates that the control algorithm is effective and the hysteretic polynomial damper model is practicable.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 479-481)
• Pages: 1355-1360
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.479-481.1355
• Online since: February 2012
• Authors: Jian Guo Chen, Jun Sheng Cheng, Yong Hong Nie
• Keywords: Decoupling Control, Differential Geometry, Full Vehicle Model, Semi-Active Suspension

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