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This article describes semi-active modern control schemes for a quarter-vehicle suspension with a magnetorheological damper (MRD) to attenuate vibrations and simultaneously improve the passenger comfort and the vehicle road-holding. The first solution is a multiple positive position feedback (MPPF) control scheme to attenuate the vibration amplitude at the two modal frequencies. The second solution is based on elementary passivity considerations on the exact regulation error dynamics passive output. The passive output feedback is used to improve the control aims. Finally, the third solution deals with a disturbance rejection control (DRC) based on an extended state observer. The three proposed control schemes consider an inverse polynomial model of a commercial MRD for numerical implementation and are evaluated by comfort and road-holding performance indexes proposed in the literature. Furthermore, the effects of variation in the sprung mass (emulating different number of passengers) on the controllers’ performance is analysed. The numerical results show in both scenarios (constant and variable sprung mass) that passivity based control (PBC) and DRC improve the performance indexes compared with the classical sky-hook control and the open-loop systems with a different constant current input for the MRD. Obtained results for damping force and power consumption are within the operation range of the considered commercial MRD showing the viability for experimental implementation of the proposed control schemes.

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Nowadays, the inerter device has become one of most popular mechanical devices in the vibration absorption field for both stationary and non-stationary mechanical structures. One of the problems commonly reported in the literature is the force transmission control in the foundations that support the machines, which is generally addressed by using either isolators or classic dynamic vibration absorbers (DVAs). However, the mechanical energy dissipation capability of these two solutions is still limited. This work focuses on improving the control performance for the conventional absorber using the inerter’s inertial mass amplification and negative stiffness effects. In order to fairly evaluate the control performance of the DVA based on grounded inerter, the  and  optimization criteria are proposed. When the dimensionless frequency response function (FRF) of the transmissibility is minimized at the resonant peaks, the  criterion reveals an improvement of 29.74% in mitigating harmonic vibration. Finally, the total vibration energy transmitted to the foundation is minimized via  criterion that provides an improvement of 33.03%.

En este trabajo se presenta una revisión exhaustiva de los diferentes tipos de amortiguadores regenerativos utilizados para mejorar la reducción del consumo de combustible y de las emisiones contaminantes (principalmente el CO2) en vehículos comerciales. En primera instancia, se describe la interacción entre el tren motriz y el sistema de suspensión automotriz, incluyendo los ciclos de velocidad de conducción como el enlace principal. Posteriormente, se presenta un esquema gráfico del proceso de regeneración de energía vibratoria mediante amortiguadores regenerativos, considerando el sistema de almacenamiento de energía. Además, se discuten los avances tecnológicos recientes de los diferentes tipos de amortiguadores regenerativos, sopesando principalmente la filosofía de diseño del mecanismo de rectificación de energía vibratoria. Finalmente, se presentan las conclusiones y tendencias futuras sobre las aplicaciones de estos dispositivos en diferentes disciplinas de la ingeniería.

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