Hydraulic control valve integrated novel semi active roll resistant interconnected suspension with vertical and roll coordinated control scheme

Abstract

Though the interconnected active suspension enhances the performances of roll dynamics along with the primary functions of passive suspension, it requires an external pressurized fluid supply. Also, higher energy is required to attain the variable damping force in an active interconnected system. Therefore, this research attempts to control the vehicle roll without an external fluid supply by novel semi-active based roll-resistant interconnected suspension system (SARR-HIS). The variable damping is achieved by utilizing the pressure developed in the chambers and hydraulic control valve (HCV), while the suspension compresses. The amount of the flow passes through the HCV is controlled by a model predictive controller. In addition, GA based optimization were performed to identify the optimal passive roll-resistant hydraulic interconnected suspension (PRR-HIS) parameters. For the controller design, vehicle plant model is estimated by the simple identification method in Matlab environment. On the AMESim platform, vehicle with SARR-HIS system integrated model was built and controlled in a co-simulation environment. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed suspension and its control strategy, the anti-roll bar (ARB) integrated passive standalone suspension, optimized PRR-HIS, and proposed SARR-HIS systems are tested under C class road roughness without steer and double lane change maneuver.