An Approach on Performance Comparison of Quarter Car Suspension System

Abstract:

The present article introduces an approach that combines passive and active elements to improve the ride and passenger comfort. The main aim of vehicle suspension system should isolate the vehicle body from road unevenness for maintaining ride and passenger comfort. The ride and passenger comfort is improved by reducing the car body acceleration caused by the irregular road surface. The vehicle body along with the wheel system is modelled as two degrees of freedom one fourth of car model. The model is tested on road bump with severe peak amplitude excitations. In the conclusion, a comparison of active, semi-active and passive suspension is shown using MATLAB simulations.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 984-985)
• Pages: 629-633
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.984-985.629
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Palanisamy Sathishkumar*, Jeyaraj Jancirani, John Dennie
• Keywords: Active, Passive Suspension, PID Controller, Quarter Car Suspension, Semi-Active

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