Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles

Vehicles handling and ride comfort are essential subject because these vehicles operate at different environments. Improving the comfort ability enables the drivers to derive for a long time at critical situations with full activity. This paper deals with dynamics and control policies analysis of se...

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Main Authors:	BenLahcene, Zohir, Faris, Waleed Fekry, Khan, Md. Raisuddin, Ihsan, Sany Izan
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2008
Subjects:	TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/14713/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/14713/1/Semi-Active_Suspension_System_for_Off-Road_Vehicles.pdf

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spelling	iium-147132012-02-06T08:10:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/14713/ Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles BenLahcene, Zohir Faris, Waleed Fekry Khan, Md. Raisuddin Ihsan, Sany Izan TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics Vehicles handling and ride comfort are essential subject because these vehicles operate at different environments. Improving the comfort ability enables the drivers to derive for a long time at critical situations with full activity. This paper deals with dynamics and control policies analysis of semi-active suspension systems for off-road vehicles. Three configurations of these vehicles; 2-axle, 3-xle and 4-axles have been studied and their performances are compared. The application of several control policies of semi-active suspension system, namely skyhook; ground-hook and hybrid controls have been analyzed and compared with passive systems. The results show that the hybrid control policy yields better comfort than a passive suspension, without reducing the road-holding quality or increasing the suspension displacement. The hybrid control policy is also shown to be a better compromise between comfort, road-holding and suspension displacement than the skyhook and ground-hook control policies. Skyhook control generally improves sprung mass responses while at the same time increase unsprung mass responses. On the other hand, ground-hook control generally improves unsprung mass responses at the expense of the sprung mass responses. Ground-hook control also found to take longer time to settle in transient state response. Results show an improvement in ride comfort and vehicle handling using 4-axle over 3-axle and 2-axle when emphasis is placed on the response of the vehicle body acceleration, suspension and tyre deflection. 2008-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/14713/1/Semi-Active_Suspension_System_for_Off-Road_Vehicles.pdf BenLahcene, Zohir and Faris, Waleed Fekry and Khan, Md. Raisuddin and Ihsan, Sany Izan (2008) Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles. In: 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics, ICOM’08, 18 - 20 December 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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spellingShingle	TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics BenLahcene, Zohir Faris, Waleed Fekry Khan, Md. Raisuddin Ihsan, Sany Izan Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles
description	Vehicles handling and ride comfort are essential subject because these vehicles operate at different environments. Improving the comfort ability enables the drivers to derive for a long time at critical situations with full activity. This paper deals with dynamics and control policies analysis of semi-active suspension systems for off-road vehicles. Three configurations of these vehicles; 2-axle, 3-xle and 4-axles have been studied and their performances are compared. The application of several control policies of semi-active suspension system, namely skyhook; ground-hook and hybrid controls have been analyzed and compared with passive systems. The results show that the hybrid control policy yields better comfort than a passive suspension, without reducing the road-holding quality or increasing the suspension displacement. The hybrid control policy is also shown to be a better compromise between comfort, road-holding and suspension displacement than the skyhook and ground-hook control policies. Skyhook control generally improves sprung mass responses while at the same time increase unsprung mass responses. On the other hand, ground-hook control generally improves unsprung mass responses at the expense of the sprung mass responses. Ground-hook control also found to take longer time to settle in transient state response. Results show an improvement in ride comfort and vehicle handling using 4-axle over 3-axle and 2-axle when emphasis is placed on the response of the vehicle body acceleration, suspension and tyre deflection.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	BenLahcene, Zohir Faris, Waleed Fekry Khan, Md. Raisuddin Ihsan, Sany Izan
author_facet	BenLahcene, Zohir Faris, Waleed Fekry Khan, Md. Raisuddin Ihsan, Sany Izan
author_sort	BenLahcene, Zohir
title	Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles
title_short	Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles
title_full	Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles
title_fullStr	Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles
title_full_unstemmed	Semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles
title_sort	semi-active suspension system for off-road vehicles
publishDate	2008
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/14713/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/14713/1/Semi-Active_Suspension_System_for_Off-Road_Vehicles.pdf
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