A Comparison of Controller Designs for an Active, Electromagnetic, Offroad Vehicle Suspension System Traveling at High Speed 980924
This paper discusses controller development for an active, off-road vehicle suspension system. A brief review of electronic filters and their characteristics is used to provide insight on the difficulties of designing a control algorithm for negotiating hilly and rough terrain at higher speeds. Two controller designs are presented. One was designed by pole placement and causes the suspension response to approximate a Type 1 Chebychev filter. The other was designed using constrained optimization. A comparison and discussion of simulation results leads to the conclusion that the suspension should be adaptively or predictively controlled for arbitrary terrain and velocity conditions.
Citation: Schuetze, K., Beno, J., Weldon, W., and Sreenivasan, S., "A Comparison of Controller Designs for an Active, Electromagnetic, Offroad Vehicle Suspension System Traveling at High Speed," SAE Technical Paper 980924, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/980924. Download Citation
Author(s):
Karl Schuetze, Joe H. Beno, William F. Weldon, S. V. Sreenivasan
Affiliated:
University of Texas at Austin
Pages: 13
Event:
International Truck & Bus Meeting & Exposition
International Congress & Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE 1998 Transactions - Journal of Commercial Vehicles-V107-2
Related Topics:
Suspension systems
Design processes
Optimization
Simulation and modeling
Mathematical models
Technical review
Terrain
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