Robust Control for Ride Comfort Improvement of an Active Suspension System considering Uncertain Driver's Biodynamics

This paper presents a robust output feedback control design for a half-car active suspension system by considering driver's biodynamics. Because of different kinds of passengers there is a wide range of variations in biodynamics' parameters, and an appropriate robust control design approach, μ-synthesis approach, is used to tackle these parametric uncertainties. The performance of active suspension system with designed controller is compared with the open loop one in both frequency and time domain simulations. The results show that μ-synthesis based controller achieves great performance in ride comfort. In addition, suspension deflections, road holding and actuators force remain in reasonable regions. Finally, analysis of robust performance indicating that the μ-synthesis controller remains stable in a wide range of frequency domain despite parametric uncertainties, which is also validated by a specific case in this paper.

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