The Cruise and Active Suspension Control for High Speed Train

Author(s):  
Chih-Jer Lin ◽  
Wan-Quan Xu

This paper presents a complete analysis of the cruise control and the active suspension control for the high speed train (HST). For a train system, the system are designed to being safe and reliable with high efficiency and fault tolerance; however, users require faster, more stable and more comfort transportation. To make sure the safety at such high speed, automatic train control (ATC) is needed and used for the modern HST to guarantee the safety and monitor the cruise status. For HST, the conventional (passive) suspension techniques have reached the limit of its optimization and development; therefore, the active suspension system is necessary for HST to obtain better comfort. In this paper, the extended sliding mode control is studied and applied to the cruise and active suspension of the HST.

Author(s):  
Jing He ◽  
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Zhitian Liu ◽  
Changfan Zhang

A control algorithm for lateral semi-active suspension based on sliding mode observer is proposed to solve lateral vibration of high-speed trains caused by railway surface excitation. Firstly, the multi-degree-of-freedom vehicle dynamics model of high-speed train is revised on the basis of variation in spring coefficient caused by long-time vibration in practical engineering; Secondly, the observer based on sliding mode variable structure is designed to obtain real-time estimation of unknown interference terms using the equivalent control principle of sliding mode variable structure, which can be further used to calculate the observed values of unknown interference terms; Finally, a control algorithm based on sliding mode observer is proposed. The algorithm inputs complex unknown interference observed values into the sliding mode controller (SMC) as feedback, thereby allowing the observed values to accurately track nonlinear unknown disturbance and weaken the vibration. Stimulation and experimental verification have proven the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
Hakan Basargan ◽  
András Mihály ◽  
Péter Gáspár ◽  
Olivier Sename

Several studies exist on topics of semi-active suspension and vehicle cruise control systems in the literature, while many of them just consider actual road distortions and terrain characteristics, these systems are not adaptive and their subsystems designed separately. This study introduces a new method where the integration of look-ahead road data in the control of the adaptive semi-active suspension, where it is possible to the trade-off between comfort and stability orientation. This trade-off is designed by the decision layer, where the controller is modified based on prehistorical passive suspension simulations, vehicle velocity and road data, while the behavior of the controller can be modified by the use of a dedicated scheduling variable. The adaptive semi-active suspension control is designed by using Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) framework. In addition to this, it proposes designing the vehicle velocity for the cruise controller by considering energy efficiency and comfort together. TruckSim environment is used to validate the operation of the proposed integrated cruise and semi-active suspension control system.


2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yechen Qin ◽  
Feng Zhao ◽  
Zhenfeng Wang ◽  
Liang Gu ◽  
Mingming Dong

This paper presents a comprehensive comparison and analysis for the effect of time delay on the five most representative semi-active suspension control strategies, and refers to four unsolved problems related to semi-active suspension performance and delay mechanism that existed. Dynamic characteristics of a commercially available continuous damping control (CDC) damper were first studied, and a material test system (MTS) load frame was used to depict the velocity-force map for a CDC damper. Both inverse and boundary models were developed to determine dynamic characteristics of the damper. In addition, in order for an improper damper delay of the form t+τ to be corrected, a delay mechanism of controllable damper was discussed in detail. Numerical simulation for five control strategies, i.e., modified skyhook control SC, hybrid control (HC), COC, model reference sliding mode control (MRSMC), and integrated error neuro control (IENC), with three different time delays: 5 ms, 10 ms, and 15 ms was performed. Simulation results displayed that by changing control weights/variables, performance of all five control strategies varied from being ride comfort oriented to being road handling oriented. Furthermore, increase in delay time resulted in deterioration of both ride comfort and road handling. Specifically, ride comfort was affected more than road handling. The answers to all four questions were finally provided according to simulation results.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1490-1499
Author(s):  
Chuguo Zhang ◽  
Yuebo Liu ◽  
Baofeng Zhang ◽  
Ou Yang ◽  
Wei Yuan ◽  
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Author(s):  
Lei Jiang ◽  
Yiliu Liu ◽  
Xiaomin Wang ◽  
Mary Ann Lundteigen

The reliability and availability of the onboard high-speed train control system are important to guarantee operational efficiency and railway safety. Failures occurring in the onboard system may result in serious accidents. In the analysis of the effects of failure, it is significant to consider the operation of an onboard system. This article presents a systemic approach to evaluate the reliability and availability for the onboard system based on dynamic Bayesian network, with taking into account dynamic failure behaviors, imperfect coverage factors, and temporal effects in the operational phase. The case studies are presented and compared for onboard systems with different redundant strategies, that is, the triple modular redundancy, hot spare double dual, and cold spare double dual. Dynamic fault trees of the three kinds of onboard system are constructed and mapped into dynamic Bayesian networks. The forward and backward inferences are conducted not only to evaluate the reliability and availability but also to recognize the vulnerabilities of the onboard systems. A sensitivity analysis is carried out for evaluating the effects of failure rates subject to uncertainties. To improve the reliability and availability, the recovery mechanism should be paid more attention. Finally, the proposed approach is validated with the field data from one railway bureau in China and some industrial impacts are provided.


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