HALF CAR MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL SUSPENSION SYSTEM ACCOUNTING FOR NONLINEARITY AND TIME DELAY

MR suspension systems have significant non-linearity and time-delay characteristics. For this reason, linear feedback control of an MR suspension has limited vibration control performance. To address this problem, a four DOF half car suspension model with two MR dampers was adopted. Having analyzed non-linearity and time-delay of the MR suspension, a Human-Simulation Intelligent Control (HSIC) law with three levels was designed. Simulation verified effects of HSIC in solving the problem of non-linearity and time-delay of MR dampers. In comparison, simulation of linear-quadratic gaussian (LQG) without considering the non-linearity and time-delay of MR suspension is also made. The simulation results show that the HSIC controller is faster than LQG controller under bump input and has better stability and accuracy, and it can achieve smaller acceleration peak value and root mean square (RMS) and better ride comfort compared with LQG controller under random input.