It would be difficult to deny the importance of optimization in the areas of science and technology. This is in fact, one of the most critical steps in any design process. Even small changes in optimization can improve dramatically upon any process or element within a process. However, determining whether an optimization approach will improve on an original design is usually a question that its...

An analytical investigation of a half-car model including passenger dynamics, subjected to random road disturbances is performed, and the advantage of active over conventional passive suspension systems are examined. Two diierent performance indices for optimal controller design are proposed. The performance index is a quantiication of both ride comfort and road handling. Due to practical limit...

Due to rising customer demands for driving comfort, the integration of controlled active and semi-active elements in modern vehicle suspension systems has increased considerably. A significant number of upper class vehicle suspensions is either equipped with continuously variable dampers or low bandwidth actuators. However, the combination of these suspension elements is not applied so far. In ...

Neither the separate skyhook damping nor inertance control strategy can adapt to variations of both road and load conditions simultaneously. To address this issue, work proposed a novel ideal multi-hook system by combining inerter hybrid damper, with their coefficients optimized. The achieve holding without sacrificing ride comfort. Depending on whether damper were adjusted independently or tog...

In this paper, numerical aspects of a sensitivity control for the semi-active suspension system with a magneto-rheological (MR) damper are investigated. A 2-dof quarter-car model together with a 6th order polynomial model for the MR damper are considered. For the purpose of suppressing the vertical acceleration of the sprung mass, the square of the vertical acceleration is defined as a cost fun...

A novel adaptive fuzzy logic controller (AFC) based on interval type-2 fuzzy is proposed for vehicle non-linear active suspension systems. The adaptive strategy elicited from Least Means Squares optimal algorithm (LMS) is adopted to self-tune lower bounds and upper bounds of interval type-2 fuzzy membership functions (IMFs). The IMFs are utilized in the AFC design to deal with not only non-line...

Active suspension designs rely on knowledge of system parameters such as vehicle mass to achieve their objectives of improved passenger comfort and road handling. Recently, we proposed a novel nonlinear design methodology for active suspensions, which uses a nonlinear control objective to explicitly incorporate rattlespace travel limits and prevent the suspension from hitting them. We have also...

the suspension system of a vehicle is one of the most important parts which is involved in the process of vehicle designing. when a vehicle suspension system is designed, the evaluation of its performance against the road disturbances such as shocks and bumps are very important. the most commonly used systems consist of four hydraulic jacks with mobility in vertical line with low speed and low ...

In this paper, we purpose a new holonomic omni-directional mobile robot that can move on not only flat floors but also uneven environment. A prototype robot can move in omni-direction, run on the uneven floors and slopes, and pass over large steps. The robot has seven universal wheels that have twelve cylindrical free rollers. We adopt a passive suspension system that enable the robot to change...