Summary Various control techniques, especially LQG optimal control, have been applied to the design of active and semi-active vehicle suspensions over the past several decades. However passive suspensions remain dominant in the automotive marketplace because they are simple, reliable, and inexpensive. The force generated by a passive suspension at a given wheel can depend only on the relative displacement and velocity at that wheel, and the suspension parameters for the left and right wheels are usually required to be equal. Therefore, a passive vehicle suspension can be viewed as a decentralized feedback controller with constraints to guarantee suspension symmetry. In this paper, we cast the optimization of passive vehicle suspensions as structure-constrained LQG/H2 optimal control problems. Correlated road random excitations are taken as the disturbance inputs; ride comfort, road handling, suspension travel, and vehicle-body attitude are included in the cost outputs. We derive a set of necessary conditions for optimality and then develop a gradient-based method to efficiently solve the structure-constrained H2 optimization problem. An eight-DOF four-wheel-vehicle model is studied as an example to illustrate application of the procedure, which is useful for design of both passive suspensions and active suspensions with controller-structure constraints.


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    Title :

    Structured H2 Optimization of Vehicle Suspensions Based on Multi-Wheel Models


    Contributors:
    Zuo, Lei (author) / Nayfeh, Samir A. (author)

    Published in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 40 , 5 ; 351-371


    Publication date :

    2003-11-01


    Size :

    21 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




    Structured H2 optimization of vehicle suspensions based on multi-wheel models

    Zuo,L. / Nayfeh,S.A. / Massachusetts Inst.of Technology,Cambridge,US | Automotive engineering | 2003



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