Title: A HIL simulation experiment design based on a hierarchical modelling method

Authors: Long Wu, H.L. Chen

Addresses: Department of Physics and Electromechanical Engineering, Sanming University, Sanming, PR China. ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Sound and Vibration Control, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China

Abstract: Due to a hierarchical modelling method that a half vehicle suspension could be considered as a combination of two parallel quarter suspensions, the experiment proposed not only displayed the controllability of a quarter vehicle suspension but also evaluated damping capacity of a half suspension according to equations of centre level. The semi-active control of a half vehicle suspension was executed by computer software equipped with some facilities such as a vibration table, a magneto-rheological damper and transducers, etc. The real time quadric Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control strategies were adopted by the front and rear quarter suspensions, respectively. The results verify the validity and practicability of the experiment designed in the paper.

Keywords: hardware-in-the-loop simulation; HIL simulation; hierarchical modelling; vehicle suspension; semi-active control; magneto-rheological damper; LQG control; quarter vehicle suspension; half vehicle suspension.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVAS.2007.014934

International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems, 2007 Vol.5 No.1/2, pp.158 - 169

Published online: 20 Aug 2007 *

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