In this work, suspension characterization of a rapid transit vehicle is performed with a multi-body dynamic model that represents full degrees of freedom of a rapid transit vehicle. The effects of lateral suspension properties on passenger ride comfort and stability are investigated by variation of critical suspension parameters using design of experiment method. The critical suspension propert...

In the vehicle development, the importance of reducing road noise is increasing because of the increasing popularity of quiet electric vehicle. The suspension plays an important role on the mechanism of the structure born road noise. As the countermeasure for reducing road noise, low stiffness suspension bush is often used from the point of view of vibration insulation. However, in general, to ...

An auto rickshaw is a three wheeled motor vehicle with one front steering wheel. Auto rickshaws are most commonly found in developing countries as they are a very cheap form of transportation due to low price, low maintenance cost, and low operation costs. Auto rickshaws needs to be developed to take the step into the 21-century. To develop a new product in the modern world one of the most impo...

Original scientific paper In order to improve conceptual phase of vehicle development, this research is focused on development of new multi-objective optimization model for determining the optimal parameters of the suspension system. In this research emphasis is on the development of suspension system from the viewpoint of full vehicle dynamics behaviour. The new optimization model consists of ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a nonlinear backstepping control strategy to improve the inherent tradeoff between ride comfort of passengers and suspension travel. Passenger comfort in ground vehicles usually depends on a combination of vertical motion (heave) and angular motion (pitch and roll). Suspension travel means the space variation between vehicle body and tires. Our active suspension de...

This chapter presents a successful implementation of PID controller for a pneumatically actuated active roll control suspension system in both simulation and experimental studies. For the simulation model, a full vehicle model which consists of ride, handling and tire subsystems to study vehicle dynamics behavior in lateral direction is derived. The full vehicle model is then validated experime...

An optimal Fractional Order PI λ D μ (FOPID) controller is designed for a full vehicle nonlinear active suspension system. The optimal values of FOPID controller parameters for minimizing the cost function are tuned using an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA), which offers an optimal solution to a multidimensional rough objective function. The fitness parameters of FOPID controller (proportional const...

In order to address the problem that traditional passive suspension damping parameter cannot be adjusted which makes it difficult to improve vehicle ride comfort and handling stability, the paper proposes use of controllable magneto-rheological dampers in replace of passive dampers to establish semi-active suspension based on magneto-rheological dampers. By designing magneto-rheological damper ...

in this paper, the 1/4 vehicle model have been simulated. the vehicle body acceleration using optimal control has been optimized. the vehicle ride comfort is achieved by using robust control, and it has been compared with optimal control. the active suspension can help the vehicle to have a good dynamic behavioral. in this paper, two degrees of freedom dynamic vibration model of a general vehic...