Technical Paper
A Comparison of the Performance and Power Requirements for Various Active Suspensions with Gain Scheduling Strategies
2015-04-14
2015-01-0616
In this paper, passive and various types of intelligent vehicle suspension systems are compared in terms of their relative ride performance capabilities and power requirements. These systems are active, two and three setting switchable dampers suspension systems. The control gains of the intelligent systems are obtained using optimal control theory and gain scheduling strategy (GS) is used for the system behaviour. In the first strategy (GS) used, gains are selected based on suspension working space. While, the other strategy (GS), gains are selected based on body acceleration. These strategies are used to maintain suspension working space and dynamic tyre deflection levels within design limits and to minimise body acceleration level. The mean power consumed in rolling resistance and the mean power dissipation within the suspensions is evaluated.