Due to rising customer demands for driving comfort, the integration of controlled active and semi-active elements in modern vehicle suspension systems has increased considerably. A significant number of upper class vehicle suspensions is either equipped with continuously variable dampers or low bandwidth actuators. However, the combination of these suspension elements is not applied so far. In this paper active quarter car models are used to design time-invariant LQR controllers for specific road conditions. By optimizing the controller weights and damping ratio based on a new iterative optimization procedure, the potential of road adaptive low bandwidth systems with continuously variable dampers is clearly highlighted. It is shown that ride comfort can be significantly increased while satisfying given constraints for ride safety (maximum tire deflections) and suspension travel. The achievable performance is compared to passive and high bandwidth active suspension systems using carpet plots. The article is structured as follows. In Section 2 linear high and low bandwidth active suspension models are presented as well as a stochastic disturbance model for the road induced vibrations. The LQR controller design is presented in Section 3. In Section 4 follows the analysis of the influence of actuator bandwidth and damping for the LQR-controlled low bandwidth active suspension (LBAS). The insights gained are used in Section 5 to analyze potential performance benefits of an adaptive controller for an LBAS with continuously variable damper.


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    Title :

    Potential of low bandwidth active suspension control with continuously variable damper


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 9 Bilder, 3 Tabellen, 9 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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