Citation

Akbari A, Lohmann B. Veh. Syst. Dyn. 2010; 48(12): 1475-1494.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00423110903509327

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study concerns with multi-objective H ∞/GH 2 preview control of active vehicle suspensions. This control scheme has two main aspects: first, it allows constrained outputs of the system to vary freely as long as they remain within their given bounds, in order that the best possible performance could be delivered. Secondly, the optimisation as well as constraint fulfilment is done for the worst-case road disturbances to cover all road types. To design a system to perform satisfactorily for a wide range of road irregularities, H ∞-norm is used wherever minimisation is required, and generalised H 2-norm is used to care for the constraints on suspension working space. Moreover, to ensure desired stability margins for the system, pole location constraints are considered in the design. The proposed approach is evaluated on a quarter-car model and compared with the state-of-the-art preview control algorithm in the literature, namely, Linear quadratic Gaussian preview. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.