Optimal Design of a Proportional-Derivative State Feedback Controller Based on Meta-Heuristic Optimization for a Quarter Car Suspension System

Abstract

This paper presents a Proportional-Derivative State Feedback (PDSF) controller approach to design an active suspension system for quarter car. The objective of the PDSF controller is to eliminate the effects of road disturbances to achieve ride comfort of the driver and passengers. Finding the optimal feedback gain matrix of the PDSF controller is formulated as an optimization problem. Then, two meta-heuristic optimizations named Bees Algorithm (BA) and Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) are employed to optimize the feedback gain matrix of the PDSF controller based on the Integral Time of Absolute Error (ITAE) index. The results show the superiority of the BA-based PDSF controller in terms of reducing the ITAE index in comparison with the results obtained from GWO based PDSF.