The three main performance metrics in automotive suspensions are passenger comfort, suspension deflection, and road holding ability. It is well-known that these three objectives can not be reached at the same time. In order to reach them “individually”, three linear H∞ controllers are designed. At each moment, the desired performance requirement is chosen with a robust stable control strategy t...

Elastomers are finding wider and wider applications throughout industry. For example, the automotive industry is continually attempting to improve fuel efficiency. The resulting reduction in body and engine weights put increasing pressure on suspension and sound insulation designers to meet the car buyers demands for improved ride quality and quiet cars. Designers are no longer satisfied with s...

The basic ability of a vehicle is to “run”, “turn” and “stop”. The safeness and comfort during a drive on various road surfaces and speed depends on the performance of these basic abilities of the vehicle. Stability and maneuverability of a vehicle are vital in automotive engineering. The stability of a vehicle is the ability of the vehicle to revert back to a stable state during a drive when f...

Compared with the traditional automotive suspension, hydro-pneumatic suspension has characteristics of large energy storage ratio, nonlinear stiffness and can change ground clearance vehicle body, which makes have good ride comfort handling stability during driving. In order to improve performance it is necessary design test bench for test. Aiming at problem that output signal mechanical used i...

This paper presents a VHDL-AMS based genetic optimization methodology suitable for performance improvement of hardware systems in automotive applications. Models of such systems are mixedsignal (analog and digital) in which the analog parts cover mixed physical domains. A case study applying this novel method to the fuzzy logic controller (FLC) optimization in an automotive active suspension sy...

This paper presents an online, dynamic, and distributed message scheduling of communication packets over the controller area network (CAN) bus. Using online, dynamic, and distributed scheduling of messages, one can obtain better temporal characteristics for networked embedded control systems. The scheduling algorithm is implemented as a hardware unit which is augmented to the communication cont...

With the development of technology, new materials have been invented, which have been applied to improve the performance of structures. Recently, researchers pay their attention to controllable fluids and its applications. Magneto rheological (MR) damper is a kind of devices that uses rheological fluids to modify their mechanical properties. Their mechanical simplicity, large dynamic range, low...

Various control techniques, especially LQG optimal control, have been applied to the design of active and semi-active vehicle suspensions over the past several decades. However passive suspensions remain dominant in the automotive marketplace because they are simple, reliable, and inexpensive. The force generated by a passive suspension at a given wheel can depend only on the relative displacem...