Study on Control Technology for Vehicle Active Suspension

Abstract

An active suspension system has been proposed to improve the ride comfort. A quarter-car 2 degree-of-freedom system is designed and constructed on the basis of the concept of a four-wheel independent suspension. The aim of the work described in the paper was to illustrate the application of fuzzy Proportional Integration Derivative (PID) technique and Linear Quadratic Guass (LQG) control to the active suspension control system. The paper describes also the model and controller used in the study and discusses the vehicle response results obtained from a range of road input simulations. This work describes some comparison of active suspension fuzzy PID control and LQG control design method by MATLAB simulations. Simulation results show that the LQG controller achieved better performances in all carried-out investigations.