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1+1Conformément à la loi canadienne sur la protection de la vie privée, quelques formulaires secondaires ont été enlevés de cette thèse.Bien que ces formulaires aient inclus dans la pagination, il n'y aura aucun contenu manquant.• ABSTRACT The vibrations caused by road imperfections, which are transmitted to a car frame through the suspension, are one of the major sources of ambient noise inside the passenger compartment of an automobile.A solution to this problem is the addition of feedback-controlled actuators between the suspension attachment points and the car frame. These actuators can be driven to provide an active control of the vibrations, thus reducing greatly the magnitude of the forces exerted on the car frame at the suspension attachment points. In order to implement a robust yet effective controller, a model of a 1,4 car suspension (suspension associated to a single wheel) is derived from experimentally acquired data. The structure's modal parameters are extracted from Frequency Response data, and are used to obtain a state-space realization. The performance of controller design techniques such as LQR and Hoo is assessed through simulation using the model of the suspension .