In this paper the vibration suppression problem relative to the vertical motion of road vehicles is investigated. In particular, the goal of the research is to design control laws for active suspension systems of road vehicles in order to reduce unwanted vibrations induced by a rough road profile. The road vehicle has been represented with a quarter-car model whereas the suspension system has b...

GPS traces can track actual time and coordinates of regular vehicles going their own business, and it is easy to scale to the entire area with an accuracy of 6 to 10 meters in normal condition. As a result, extracting road map from GPS traces could be an alternative way to traditional way of road map generation. The basic idea of this paper is to describe a process which incrementally improves ...

The Melnikov criterion is used to examine a global homoclinic bifurcation and transition to chaos in the case of a quarter car model excited kinematically by the road surface profile. By analyzing the potential an analytic expression is found for the homoclinic orbit. By introducing an harmonic excitation term and damping as perturbations, the critical Melnikov amplitude of the road surface pro...

Semi active control systems are becoming increasingly popular because they offer reliability of passive systems combined with high performance and versatility of active control systems but with low power consumptions. As Magnetorheological (MR) fluids can produce good controllable damping force under application of magnetic field, MR damper can be used as effective element in semiactive vibrati...

In powertrain analysis, simulation of driveline models are standard tools, where efficient and accurate simulations are important features of the models. One input signal with high impact on the accuracy is the road slope. Here it is found that the amplitude discretization in production road-slope sensors can excite vehicle shuffle dynamics in the model, which is not present in the real vehicle...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the construction of an improved sliding mode control for the active suspension system of a one-wheel car model subject to the excitation from a road profile. The active control is composed of the equivalent and the switching controls where an improved sliding surface is proposed. The active control force is generated by operating a pneumatic actuator due t...