scholarly journals Integrated Comfort-Adaptive Cruise and Semi-Active Suspension Control for an Autonomous Vehicle: An LPV Approach

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 813
Author(s):  
Gia Quoc Bao Tran ◽  
Thanh-Phong Pham ◽  
Olivier Sename ◽  
Eduarda Costa ◽  
Péter Gáspár
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Linear Matrix ◽  
Vertical Acceleration ◽  
Cruise Control ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
The Road ◽  
Suspension Control

This paper presents an integrated linear parameter-varying (LPV) control approach of an autonomous vehicle with an objective to guarantee driving comfort, consisting of cruise and semi-active suspension control. First, the vehicle longitudinal and vertical dynamics (equipped with a semi-active suspension system) are presented and written into LPV state-space representations. The reference speed is calculated online from the estimated road type and the desired comfort level (characterized by the frequency weighted vertical acceleration defined in the ISO 2631 norm) usingprecomputed polynomial functions. Then, concerning cruise control, an LPV H2 controller using a linear matrix inequality (LMI) based polytopic approach combined with the compensation of the estimated disturbance forces is developed to track the comfort-oriented reference speed. To further enhance passengers’ comfort, a decentralized LPV H2 controller for the semi-active suspension system is proposed, minimizing the effect of the road profile variations. The interaction with cruise control is achieved by the vehicle’s actual speed being a scheduling parameter for suspension control. To assess the strategy’s performance, simulations are conducted using a realistic nonlinear vehicle model validated from experimental data. The simulation results demonstrate the proposed approach’s capability to improve driving comfort.

Body attitude control strategy based on road level for heavy rescue vehicles

2020 ◽  
pp. 095440702096616
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Mingde Gong ◽  
Dingxuan Zhao ◽  
Jianxu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
Attitude Control ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Vertical Acceleration ◽  
Inference System ◽  
The Road ◽  
Body Attitude

This paper proposes an attitude control strategy based on road level for heavy rescue vehicles. The strategy aims to address the problem of poor ride comfort and stability of heavy rescue vehicles in complex road conditions. Firstly, with the pressure of the suspension hydraulic cylinder chamber without a piston rod as the parameter, Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy controller classification and adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system controller classification are used to recognise the road level. Secondly, particle swarm optimisation is adopted to obtain the optimal parameters of the active suspension system of vehicle body attitude control under different road levels. Lastly, the parameters of the active suspension system are selected in accordance with the road level recognised in the driving process to improve the adaptive adjustment capability of the active suspension system at different road levels. Test results show that the root mean square values of vertical acceleration, pitch angle and roll angle of the vehicle body are reduced by 59.9%, 76.2% and 68.4%, respectively. This reduction improves the ride comfort and stability of heavy rescue vehicles in complex road conditions.

scholarly journals Vehicle Semi-active Suspension Control with Cloud-based Road Information

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Basargan ◽  
András Mihály ◽  
Ádám Kisari ◽  
Péter Gáspár ◽  
Olivier Sename
Keyword(s):  
Control Method ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Data Simulation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Suspension Systems ◽  
Suspension Control ◽  
Vehicle Technology ◽  
Adaptive Suspension

Adaptive suspension control considering passenger comfort and stability of the vehicle has been researched intensively, thus several automotive companies already apply these technologies in their high-end models. Most of these systems react to the instantaneous effects of road irregularities, however, some expensive camera-based systems adapting the suspension in coherence with upcoming road conditions have already been introduced. Thereby, using oncoming road information the performance of adaptive suspension systems can be enhanced significantly. The emerging technology of cloud computing enables several promising features for road vehicles, one of which may be the implementation of an adaptive semi-active suspension system using historic road information gathered in the cloud database. The main novelty of the paper is the developed semi-active suspension control method in which Vehicle-to-Cloud-to-Vehicle technology serves as the basis for the road adaptation capabilities of the suspension system. The semi-active suspension control is founded on the Linear Parameter-Varying framework. The operation of the presented system is validated by a real data simulation in TruckSim simulation environment.

Research on Optimal Control and Simulation for Active Suspension Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 340 ◽  
pp. 631-635
Author(s):  
Yong Fa Qin ◽  
Jie Hua ◽  
Long Wei Geng
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Mathematic Model ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Vertical Acceleration ◽  
The Road ◽  
Suspension Systems ◽  
Active Suspension Systems

Vehicles with active suspension systems become more ride comfort and maneuverable stability, many types of active suspensions have been applied to passenger vehicles, but one of the shortcomings of an active susupension system is that the additional control power consumption is needed. The core issues of designing an active suspension system are to minimiaze vibration magnitute and control energy comsuption of the active suspension system. A new mathematic model for an active suspension system is established based on vehicle dynamics and modern control theory. An optimal control law is constructed through solving the Riccati equation, and then the transfer function is deduced to describe the relationship between the vetical velosity of the road roughness and the output of suspension system. Three typical parameters of vehicle ride comfort are researched, such as vertical acceleration of vehicle body, dynamic deflection of suspension system and dynamic deformation of tires. A case of a quarter vehicle model is studied by simulation to show that the proposed method of modeling and designing optimal controller are suitable to develop active suspension systems.

scholarly journals The road disturbance attenuation for quarter car active suspension system via a new static two-degree-of-freedom design

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
Yusuf Altun
Keyword(s):  
Linear Time ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Disturbance Attenuation ◽  
Linear Matrix ◽  
Static Structure ◽  
The Road ◽  
Linear Time Invariant ◽  
Road Disturbance ◽  
Quarter Car

The main aim of this paper is to attenuate the effects of the road disturbance on the quarter-car active suspension system (ASS) for the passenger comfort by using design. Therefore, a new static disturbance compensator is proposed by using linear matrix inequality method such that the disturbance compensator and feedback controller are simultaneously designed for the disturbances in the linear time-invariant systems, which are measurable or predictable. They have static structure, and the disturbance compensator is designed on the feedforward path. The design is applied against the road disturbance affecting the quarter car ASS. The effectiveness of the design is demonstrated with the simulations.

scholarly journals Adaptive Semi-Active Suspension and Cruise Control through LPV Technique

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
Hakan Basargan ◽  
András Mihály ◽  
Péter Gáspár ◽  
Olivier Sename
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Cruise Control ◽  
Linear Parameter Varying ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Vehicle Velocity ◽  
Suspension Control ◽  
Road Data ◽  
Terrain Characteristics

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.

Test Analysis of a Six-Wheel Hydraulic Active Suspension Control System

2012 ◽  
Vol 591-593 ◽  
pp. 1710-1714
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Zhi Yao ◽  
Qing Bo Zhao ◽  
Tong Jian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Control System ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Hydraulic Cylinder ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Quantitative Feedback Theory ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Suspension Control ◽  
System Robustness ◽  
Road Performance

In order to make the active hydraulic suspension system to adaptive the ground. Taking the asymmetric valve controlled hydraulic cylinder as actuators, a six wheels hydraulic active suspension was designed. It is difficult to analysis of the six wheels system. So this paper established the single wheel’s mathematical model to instead analysis of the whole system, designed QFT (Quantitative Feedback Theory) controller which can be a solution to the system robustness, researched the hydraulic active suspension system. The results show that it is good for tracking performance of the hydraulic cylinder which taking the asymmetric valve controlled as actuators, system responses timely and the controller can meet the controlling requirements. This hydraulic active suspension system can improve off-road performance of engineering vehicles.

Effective Design of Active Suspension System using Fuzzy Logic Control Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Avesh ◽  
Rajeev Srivastava ◽  
Rakesh Chandmal Sharma ◽  
Neeraj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Control ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Controller ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Ride Quality ◽  
Hardware Complexity ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Logic Control ◽  
Rules Set

The study deals with the light passenger vehicle suspension system design to improve the ride quality. The fuzzy logic control approach is applied to the half car suspension system model by adjusting the control parameters and properties using online adaptation with a minimized cost function and reduced hardware complexity. The performance of resulting model is tested under the influence of trapezoidal and triangular membership functions using the 9, 25 and 49 rules-set. The controller robustness is observed at different performance indices. Road excitations in the form of disturbance input are modelled as the sinusoidal function of a speed bump to reveal the transient response of the automotive body. Ultimately, the performance of active suspension system has been improved in terms of displacement and acceleration of seat, heave, pitch, and roll by the application of proposed fuzzy logic controller. Results reported that the trapezoidal shape 25 rules set membership function based fuzzy logic controller gives the best performance between the investigated systems.

Semi-Active Suspension System for 2S1 Tracked Platform in Application of Improvement of the Vehicle Body Stability

2015 ◽  
Vol 759 ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Nabagło ◽  
Andrzej Jurkiewicz ◽  
Janusz Kowal
Keyword(s):  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Active Suspensions ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Strategy Model ◽  
Ground Conditions ◽  
Suspension Model ◽  
Torsion Springs

In the article, a new solution of a semi-active suspension system is presented. It is based on a sky-hook strategy model. This solution in 2S1 tracked platform is applied to improve body vehicle stability and driving comfort. The solution is applied in two versions of the 2S1 vehicle suspension model. First one is a basic model. This suspension is based on existing construction of the 2S1 platform suspension. It is based on torsion bars. Second one is a modified model, based on spiral torsion springs. In this model a new solution of idler mechanism is applied. It provides constant tension of the tracks. Semi-active suspensions simulations results are compared with results of models with passive versions of the suspension to highlight the improvement level. Simulations are conducted in the Yuma Proving Ground conditions. Results of all models simulations are compared and analyzed to improve stability and comfort level in conditions of the modern battlefield. Stability level is analyzed for weapon aiming tasks. Comfort level is analyzed for the vehicle crew efficiency.

scholarly journals Design of LQG Controller for Active Suspension without Considering Road Input Signals

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Pang ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
JiaNan Chen ◽  
Xue Liu
Keyword(s):  
Angular Acceleration ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Vehicle Body ◽  
Vehicle Suspension ◽  
Linear Quadratic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Input Signals ◽  
Vehicle Suspension System ◽  
Weight Coefficients

As the road conditions are completely unknown in the design of a suspension controller, an improved linear quadratic and Gaussian distributed (LQG) controller is proposed for active suspension system without considering road input signals. The main purpose is to optimize the vehicle body acceleration, pitching angular acceleration, displacement of suspension system, and tire dynamic deflection comprehensively. Meanwhile, it will extend the applicability of the LQG controller. Firstly, the half-vehicle and road input mathematical models of an active suspension system are established, with the weight coefficients of each evaluating indicator optimized by using genetic algorithm (GA). Then, a simulation model is built in Matlab/Simulink environment. Finally, a comparison of simulation is conducted to illustrate that the proposed LQG controller can obtain the better comprehensive performance of vehicle suspension system and improve riding comfort and handling safety compared to the conventional one.

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