Research on Hydro-pneumatic Suspension Test Bench Based on Electro-hydraulic Proportional Control

Abstract

Compared with the traditional automotive suspension, hydro-pneumatic suspension has the characteristics of large energy storage ratio, nonlinear stiffness and can change the ground clearance of the vehicle body, which makes the vehicle have good ride comfort and handling stability during driving. In order to improve the performance of hydro-pneumatic suspension, it is necessary to design hydro-pneumatic suspension test bench for performance test. Aiming at the problem that the output signal of the mechanical test bench used in China is single and has large error, which is difficult to meet the performance test requirements of hydro-pneumatic suspension, a hydro-pneumatic suspension test bench based on electro-hydraulic proportional control is designed. Through AMESim/MATLAB joint system modeling and simulation, in the tracking comparison of sinusoidal signal, compared with the traditional PID control method, the fuzzy PID control method reduces the error by 56.8% and the lag time by 70%; Through the experimental analysis of hydro-pneumatic suspension elastic force characteristic diagram, indicator diagram and damping force velocity characteristic diagram, the error rate of the test bench in sinusoidal signal tracking experiment is less than 15%, which meets the test requirements of hydro-pneumatic suspension.