Electronic instrumentation and sensors are playing a relevant role in preventing and detecting road accidents, and improving the overall driving experience. Consequently fault detection on vehicle instrumentation and sensors also emerged as a main topic for its direct impact on cost and road safety. As solution, the employment of the analytical redundancy of measurement information is particula...

The paper presents the virtual model of the active suspension system used for improving the dynamic behavior of a motor vehicle. The study is focused on the design of the control system, the purpose being to minimize the effect of the road disturbances (which are considered as perturbations for the control system). The analysis is performed for a quarter-car model, which corresponds to the susp...

The core factors governing the performance of active vehicle suspension systems (AVSS) are the inherent trade-offs involving suspension travel, ride comfort, road holding and power consumption. In addition to this, robustness to parameter variations is an essential issue that affects the effectiveness of highly nonlinear electrohydraulic AVSS. Therefore, this paper proposes a nonlinear control ...

Aging is associated with poor skeletal muscle regenerative ability following extended periods of hospitalization and other forms of muscular disuse. Resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxystilbene) is a natural phytoalexin which has been shown in skeletal muscle to improve oxidative stress levels in muscles of aged rats. As muscle disuse and reloading after disuse increases oxidative stress, we hypothes...

The suspension module control system model has been established based on MIMO (multiple input and multiple output) state feedback linearization. We have completed decoupling between double suspension points, and the new decoupling method has been applied to CMS04 magnetic suspension vehicle in national mid-low-speed maglev experiment field of Tangshan city in China. Double suspension system mod...

Between 2010 and 2014, the research team of Josef Bozek ́s Research Center of Combustion Engines and Automobiles at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, has developed innovations in vehicle suspension technology. The research team has designed a unique innovative suspension system that uses a linear electric motor as a controlled actuator. We have undertaken many experiments...

This paper deals with modeling and control of a semi-active suspension made up with a new industrial semi-active damper, in order to improve comfort and road-holding level of the vehicle. In the past few years, many control strategies have been developed using linear suspension models. A nonlinear model of the industrial damper is developed with physical equations and integrated in a quarter ve...

This paper presents a methodological approach for the application of virtual prototyping for the evaluation of the intelligent vehicle active suspension system performance. In this approach, a full passenger car model is developed using ADAMS software. In the modeling approach, not only the suspension components are precisely modeled, but also modeling of all systems like steering systems that ...

In this paper, a three Degrees of Freedom (DOF) model of a quarter vehicle suspension system is proposed including the seat driver mass. The modal parameters of this system, which indicate the comfort and the safety of the suspension, are identified using Wavelet analysis. Two applications of wavelet analysis are presented: signal denoising based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and moda...

Target cascading in product development is a systematic effort to propagate the desired top-level system design targets to appropriate specifications for subsystems and components in a consistent and efficient manner. If analysis models are available to represent the relevant design decisions, analytical target cascading can be formalized as a hierarchical multilevel optimization problem. The a...