scholarly journals The Theoretical Study of an Interconnected Suspension System for a Formula Student Car

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5507
Author(s):  
Andrei-Cristian Pridie ◽  
Csaba Antonya

When it comes to racing applications, the primary engineering goal is to increase the performance envelope of the vehicle for a given set of tires. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to maximize the normal loads on the wheels while at the same time minimizing the tire load variation. The purpose of this paper is to present a mathematical model for a Formula Student car in order to study if performance gains are achieved by replacing the traditional passive suspension with a hydraulically interconnected suspension system. To have a complete picture of the advantages and disadvantages of each system, two vibrating models with 7 degrees of freedom were created in order to simulate the motion response of a Formula Student car to realistic excitations. Two particular interpretations of the results were chosen as important performance indicators. The first one is given by the pitch stability of the chassis relative to the road, which can be linked with a decrease in downforce load variation. The second one is the ability of the wheel to follow the road profile as closely as possible, which can be directly correlated with the amount of mechanical grip of the vehicle. The simulation results indicate that the hydraulically interconnected suspension system offers better results for both proposed cases but at the expense of the roll stability of the vehicle.

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
Salem F. Salman

All vehicles are affected by the type of the road they are moving on it.  Therefore the stability depends mainly on the amount of vibrations and steering system, which in turn depend on two main factors: the first is on the road type, which specifies the amount of vibrations arising from the movement of the wheels above it, and the second on is the type of the used suspension system, and how the parts connect with each other. As well as the damping factors, the tires type, and the used sprungs. In the current study, we will examine the effect of the road roughness on the performance coefficients (speed, displacement, and acceleration) of the joint points by using a BOGE device.


Author(s):  
O Kavianipour ◽  
M Montazeri-Gh ◽  
M Moazamizadeh

This paper deals with the two degrees of freedom response-type mechanism (2 DOF RTM) designed at Iran University Science and Technology. The applications of the 2 DOF RTM are to measure the longitudinal road profile and assess the vehicle suspension system. When the 2 DOF RTM is connected to a vehicle, it is able to measure the longitudinal road profile and it is capable of assessing the vehicle suspension system while it is perched upon the exciting device. The most important part of the 2 DOF RTM is its hub planned for decreasing the vehicle movement effects on the measurement. Moreover, this paper develops a novel procedure in order to convert the measured profile from the variable speed to the constant speed. To examine the 2 DOF RTM, a profile of a road is measured by the mechanism in the time-domain, and then the highly significant roughness indices such as power spectral density (PSD) of the road unevenness, international roughness index (IRI) and present serviceability index (PSI) are estimated using the measured profile.


2014 ◽  
Vol 984-985 ◽  
pp. 629-633
Author(s):  
Palanisamy Sathishkumar ◽  
Jeyaraj Jancirani ◽  
John Dennie

The present article introduces an approach that combines passive and active elements to improve the ride and passenger comfort. The main aim of vehicle suspension system should isolate the vehicle body from road unevenness for maintaining ride and passenger comfort. The ride and passenger comfort is improved by reducing the car body acceleration caused by the irregular road surface. The vehicle body along with the wheel system is modelled as two degrees of freedom one fourth of car model. The model is tested on road bump with severe peak amplitude excitations. In the conclusion, a comparison of active, semi-active and passive suspension is shown using MATLAB simulations.


Author(s):  
Chi Nguyen Van

This paper presents the active suspension system (ASS) control method using the adaptive cascade control scheme. The control scheme is implemented by two control loops, the inner control loop and outer control loop are designed respectively. The inner control loop uses the pole assignment method in order to move the poles of the original system to desired poles respect to the required performance of the suspension system. To design the controller in the inner loop, the model without the noise caused by the road profile and velocity of the car is used. The outer control loop then designed with an adaptive mechanism calculates the active control force to compensate for the vibrations caused by the road profile and velocity of the car. The control force is determined by the error between states of the reference model and states of suspension systems, the reference model is the model of closed-loop with inner control loop without the noise. The simulation results implemented by using the practice date of the road profile show that the capability of oscillation decrease for ASS is quite efficient


Author(s):  
Alexandru Dobre

In the context of improving the comfort and dynamics of the vehicle, the suspension system has been continuously developed and improved, especially using magnetorheological (MR) shock absorbers. The development of this technology which is relatively new has not been easy. Thus, the first widespread commercial use of MR fluid in a semi-active suspension system was implemented in passenger cars. The magnetorheological shock absorber can combine the comfort with the dynamic driving, because it allows the damping characteristic to be adapted to the road profile. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the dynamic behavior of the magnetorheological shock absorber in the semi-active suspension. In this sense, the author carried out a set of experimental measurements with a damping test bench, specially built and equipped with modern equipment. The results obtained from the experimental determinations show a significantly improved comfort when using a magnetorheological shock absorber, compared to a classic one, by the fact that the magnetorheological shock absorber allows to modify the damping coefficient according to the road conditions, thus maintaining the permanent contact between the tire and the road due to increased damping force.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wissam Al-Mutar ◽  
Turki Abdalla

The objective of this paper is to design an efficient control scheme for car suspension system. The purpose of suspension system in vehicles is to get more comfortable riding and good handling with road vibrations. A nonlinear hydraulic actuator is connected to passive suspension system in parallel with damper. The Particles Swarm Optimization is used to tune a PID controller for active suspension system. The designed controller is applied for quarter car suspension system and result is compared with passive suspension system model and input road profile. Simulation results show good performance for the designed controller.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haider J. Abid ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Ameen A. Nassar

This paper investigates the GENSIS air spring suspension system equivalence to a passive suspension system. The SIMULINK simulation together with the OptiY optimization is used to obtain the air spring suspension model equivalent to passive suspension system, where the car body response difference from both systems with the same road profile inputs is used as the objective function for optimization (OptiY program). The parameters of air spring system such as initial pressure, volume of bag, length of surge pipe, diameter of surge pipe, and volume of reservoir are obtained from optimization. The simulation results show that the air spring suspension equivalent system can produce responses very close to the passive suspension system.


2015 ◽  
Vol 775 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Dirman Hanafi ◽  
Mohamad Fauzi Zakaria ◽  
Rosli Omar ◽  
M. Nor M. Than ◽  
M. Fua'ad Rahmat ◽  
...  

The road handling, load carrying and passenger comfort are three intension factors on car suspension’s system. They should be compromised to achieve the good the car suspension dynamics. To fulfill the requirement, the car suspension system must be controlled and analyzed. To design and analyze the suspension controller, the realistic dynamics model of car suspension is needed. In this paper, the car suspension is assumed as a quarter car and has a model structure as a neural network structure. The model is assumed consist of nonlinear properties that are contributed by spring stiffness and damping elements of suspension system. The tire is assumed has linear properties and represented by spring stiffness element and damping element. The model responses are generated in simulation term. The random type of artificial road surface signal as an input variable is used in this simulation. The results show that the trend of neuro model have the same with the response of a quarter car nonlinear model from dynamic derivation. It means that the developed neuro model structure capable to represent the nonlinear model of a quarter car passive suspension system dynamics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wuhui Yu ◽  
Xinjie Zhang ◽  
Konghui Guo ◽  
Hamid Reza Karimi ◽  
Fangwu Ma ◽  
...  

Vehicle dynamics are directly dependent on tire-road contact forces and torques which are themselves dependent on the wheels’ load and tire-road friction characteristics. An acquisition of the road disturbance property is essential for the enhancement of vehicle suspension control systems. This paper focuses on designing an adaptive real-time road profile estimation observer considering load variation via vehicle vertical dynamics. Firstly, a road profile estimator based on a linear Kalman filter is proposed, which has great advantages on vehicle online control. Secondly, to minimize the estimation errors, an online identification system based on the Recursive Least-Squares Estimation is applied to estimate sprung mass, which is used to refresh the system matrix of the adaptive observer to improve the road estimation efficiency. Last, for mining road category from the estimated various road profile sequencse, a road categorizer considering road frequency and amplitude simultaneously is approached and its efficiency is validated via numerical simulations, in which the road condition is categorized into six special ranges, and this road detection strategy can provide the suspension control system with a better compromise for the vehicle ride comfort, handling, and safety performance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Pipit Wahyu Nugroho

The comfort of the vehicle passenger of the vehicle and its stability are the important variables that are always needed by everyone who uses transportation. In order to achieve this goal, the suspension of the vehicle will play an important role because its function is to isolate passengers from the effects of excitation from outside the vehicle and also to control the wheels attached to the road surface. Therefore in this study, the influence of various types of suspensions on vehicle vibrations is observed in terms of comfort and stability. The type of suspension in this study is related to the level of suspensión stiffness namely the spring and the damper. Vehicle modeling to be applied in a one-wheeled vehicle with two degrees of freedom. The experimental study is conducted by loading of vehicle body weight and passengers to three type of suspension, soft, medium and hard. Vibration responses to be analyzed on the vehicle equation using Matlab to obtain the acceleration response of the displacement and the defelction. This research obtains a vibration response graph for each type of suspension for  some kind of road profile.


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