Active Roll Control System Design With Considering Actuator Constraints for Passenger Car

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Changseb Kim ◽  
Kunsoo Huh

Abstract This paper proposes an active roll control system for passenger cars. The roll actuator with electric motor is expected to replace the hydraulic roll control actuator with the better performance. In order to meet those expectations, highly precise control methods are needed for adjusting the roll motion of the vehicle. In this study, roll dynamics of vehicle and the properties of active roll actuators are investigated first including the latency of the actuator. The identification method is designed to estimate the key parameters of the suspension system. The reference model method is proposed to determine the target roll states and the model predictive control (MPC) method is adopted to control the rolling motion. The roll moment distribution method is also designed between the front and rear actuators considering the load transfer. The proposed control system is validated via simulations and experiments.

Author(s):  
Mohammad Amin Saeedi ◽  
Reza Kazemi ◽  
Shahram Azadi

In this paper, in order to improve the roll stability of an articulated vehicle carrying a liquid, an active roll control system is utilized by employing two different control methods. First, a 16-degree-of-freedom non-linear dynamic model of an articulated vehicle is developed. Next, the dynamic interaction of the liquid cargo with the vehicle is investigated by integrating a quasi-dynamic liquid sloshing model with a tractor–semitrailer model. Initially, to improve the lateral dynamic stability of the vehicle, an active roll control system is developed using classical integral sliding-mode control. The active anti-roll bar is employed as an actuator to generate the roll moment. Next, in order to verify the classical sliding-mode control performance and to eliminate its chattering, the backstepping method and the sliding-mode control method are combined. Subsequently, backstepping sliding-mode control as a new robust control is implemented. Moreover, in order to prevent both yaw instability and jackknifing, an active steering control system is designed on the basis of a simplified three-degree-of-freedom dynamic model of an articulated vehicle carrying a liquid. In the introduced system, the yaw rate of the tractor, the lateral velocity of the tractor and the articulation angle are considered as the three state variables which are targeted in order to track their desired values. The simulation results show that the combined proposed roll control system is more successful in achieving target control and reducing the lateral load transfer ratio than is classical sliding-mode control. A more detailed investigation confirms that the designed active steering system improves both the lateral stability of the vehicle and its handling, in particular during a severe lane-change manoeuvre in which considerable instability occurs.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlindo Pires Lopes ◽  
Adriana Alencar Santos ◽  
Rogério Coelho Lopes

The Moment Distribution Method is a quite powerful hand method of structural analysis, in which the solution is obtained iteratively without even formulating the equations for the unknowns. It was formulated by Professor Cross in an era where computer facilities were not available to solve frame problems that normally require the solution of simultaneous algebraic equations. Its relevance today, in the era of personal computers, is in its insight on how a structure reacts to applied loads by rotating its nodes and thus distributing the loads in the form of member-end moments. Such an insight is the foundation of the modern displacement method. This work has a main objective to present an exact solution for the Moment Distribution Method through a matrix formulation using only one equation. The initial moments at the ends of the members and the distribution and carry-over factors are calculated from the elementary procedures of structural analysis. Four continuous beams are investigated to illustrate the applicability and accuracy of the proposed formulation. The use of a matrix formulation yields excellent results when compared with those in the literature or with a commercial structural program.


1941 ◽  
Vol 45 (367) ◽  
pp. 241-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. Hoff

SummaryIt is shown that the calculation of the critical loads of a plane framework is superfluous if the bending moments in the bars due to external moments and to lateral loads are determined by the Hardy Cross moment distribution method as extended by James. Convergence of this method is a proof of the stability of the framework. In Section 1 methods of determining stresses and critical loads in frameworks are discussed. Section 2 deals with the distortion patterns of beam columns on several supports below and above the critical loads. In Section 3 the method of proof of the convergence is outlined, and regular and particular cases are discussed with the aid of numerical examples. The final proof is given in Section 4.


2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 601-604
Author(s):  
Hong Yu Zheng ◽  
Yu Chao Chen

Because of the sensitive factors, such as the larger loads, higher mass center and relatively narrow tread in comparison with the height of heavy vehicles that have the poor dynamic rollover stability. This paper set of anti-rollover LQR control algorithm based on early warning. The model-based early rollover warning algorithm utilize the TruckSim® models and early warning reference model to predict the impeding vehicle rollover time in advance and told the driver the warning signals so that drivers had enough time to take appropriate measures to prevent vehicle rollover that called time to rollover (TTR), thereby greatly improving the vehicles active safety performance of the heavy vehicles. As to the anti-rollover LQR control algorithm, the principle was to use the optimal additional yaw moment obtained from the control algorithm and then made it reasonable impose the corresponding wheels by taking the moment distribution methods based on the differential braking for the purpose of reducing the risk of rollover. The simulation results show that the algorithm was presented in this paper can effectively reduce the lateral load transfer ratio and actively void the occurrence of rollover accidents.


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