Study of Commercial Vehicle Active Seat Suspension

A 7-DOF half-car dynamic model which includes the cab mounting system and seat suspension system was established to study the performance of active seat suspension. The optimal control method was applied to design the active control system. Two dynamic simulation models of the passive seat suspension and the active seat suspension were set up by Matlab/Simulink, and the performance of the passive and active seat system was simulated in the time and frequency domain. The simulation results show that the active seat suspension can greatly improve the vehicle seat performance and the study has supplied the academic reference in the applications of the active seat suspension.