Adaptive control of a vehicle-seat-human coupled model using quasi-zero-stiffness vibration isolator as seat suspension

We propose the quasi-zero-stiffness (QZS) vibration isolator as seat suspension to improve vehicle vibration isolation performance. The QZS vibration isolator is composed of vertical spring and two symmetric negative stiffness structures used as stiffness correctors. A vehicle-seat-human coupled model considering the QZS vibration isolator is established as a three degree-of-freedom (DOF) model; it is composed of a quarter car model and a simplified 1 DOF model combined vehicle seat and human body. This model considers the changing mass of the passengers and sets the total mass of the vehicle seat and human body as an uncertain parameter, which investigates the overload and unload conditions in practical engineering. To further improve the vehicle ride comfort, a constrained adaptive backstepping controller law based on the barrier Lyapunov function (BLF) is presented. The dynamic characteristic of the active vehicle-seathuman coupled model under shock excitation was analyzed using numerical method. The results show that the designed controller law can isolate the shock excitation transmitted from the road to the passengers effectively, and both the vehicle and seat suspension strokes remain in the allowed stroke range.

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