Human simulated intelligent control of vehicle suspension system with MR dampers

This paper presents vibration control responses of a controllable magnetorheological (MR) suspension system of a passenger car. The MR damper is designed and manufactured on the basis of the mixed-mode operation, and its time response is experimentally evaluated to integrate with the suspension model. After formulating the dynamic model of a half-car MR suspension system, a human simulated intelligent control (HSIC) scheme is developed to attenuate unwanted vibrations such as pitch angle acceleration. After verifying the effectiveness of the HSIC via computer simulation, the road test of the passenger car installed with four MR dampers is undertaken. The power spectrum densities of dynamic motions such as body acceleration and pitch angle acceleration are measured and analyzed. In addition, the control results obtained from the proposed HSIC are compared with those obtained from a conventional linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control method.