Seat suspension is an important system to the ride comfort experience of a commercial vehicle's driver and passengers. The usage of magnetorheological (MR) dampers in seat suspension systems has been shown to offer a momentous enhancement regarding to the ride comfort. In the majority, research work on seat MR dampers has been emphasized on the control implementation but most of them were not quite appropriate for the semi-active and nonlinear hysteretic nature of the MR damper. This paper introduces a deeply investigation into the application of a semi-active MR damper for a truck seat suspension, enabling more efficient control algorithm. The proposed control system consists of a system controller that calculates the desired damper force using a fuzzy logic control (FLC) algorithm, and a signum function damper controller that provides an approximation of the command voltage required to track the desired damping force. A mathematical model and the equations of motion of a two degree-of-freedom semi-active seat suspension with an MR damper are derived and simulated using Matlab/Simulink software. The proposed semi-active MR seat suspension is compared to passive and uncontrolled seat suspensions for prescribed base displacements. These inputs are representative of the vibration of the body mass of a passive quarter-vehicle suspension under bump and random-profile road excitation. Seat travel distance and driver body acceleration are assessed as system performance criteria through bump and random road excitations, in order to quantify the efficiency of the proposed semi-active control technique. The simulated results indicate that the proposed FLC of the semi-active MR seat suspension provides a significant enhancement in ride comfort.


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    Title :

    Vibration control of a semi-active seat suspension system using magnetorheological damper


    Contributors:
    Metered, H. (author) / Sika, Z. (author)


    Publication date :

    2014-09-01


    Size :

    485162 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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