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A Bioinspired Dynamics-Based Adaptive Tracking Control for Nonlinear Suspension Systems

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Abstract

This paper investigates the energy-efficiency design of adaptive control for active suspension systems with a bioinspired nonlinearity approach. To this aim, a bioinspired dynamics-based adaptive tracking control is proposed for nonlinear suspension systems. In many existing techniques, one important effort is used for canceling vibration energy transmitted by suspension inherent nonlinearity to improve ride comfort. Unlike existing methods, the proposed approach takes full advantage of beneficial nonlinear stiffness and damping characteristics inspired by the limb motion dynamics of biological systems to achieve advantageous nonlinear suspension properties with potentially less energy consumption. The stability analysis of the desired bioinspired nonlinear dynamics is conducted within the Lyapunov framework. Theoretical analysis and simulation results reveal that the proposed bioinspired nonlinear dynamics-based adaptive controller has a significant impact on the amount of energy consumption, considering the same basic control method and random excitation of road irregularity for a similar ride comfort performance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)903-914
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Volume26
Issue number3
Online published19 May 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2018
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was supported in part by the GRF Project of Hong Kong RGC under Grant 15206514, in part by the NSFC Project of China under Grant 61374041 and Grant 61403098, in part by the China Automobile Industry Innovation and Development Joint Fund under Grant U1564213, in part the China Post-Doctoral Science Special Foundation under Grant 2015T30351, in part by the China Post-Doctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2014M550190, and in part by the Post-Doctoral Science Special Foundation of Heilongjiang Province under Grant LBHTZ0512.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Research Keywords

  • Active suspension systems
  • bioinspired dynamics
  • energy efficiency
  • nonlinearity
  • SLIDING-MODE CONTROL
  • ACTIVE SUSPENSIONS
  • BACKSTEPPING CONTROL
  • PERFORMANCE CONSTRAINTS
  • ACTUATOR SATURATION
  • VIBRATION ISOLATION
  • ROBUST-CONTROL
  • VEHICLE
  • STABILIZATION

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