Title: A semi-active suspension of passenger cars using fuzzy reasoning and the field testing

Authors: T. Yoshimura

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima, Minamijosanjima 2-1, Tokushima 770, Japan

Abstract: This paper presents the construction of a semi-active suspension of passenger cars using fuzzy reasoning and the field test. The model of the passenger car is described by a nonlinear system with seven degrees of freedom subject to irregular excitation from a road surface. Measuring the suspension travel at every sampling instant, the stage of the damping force of the semi-active suspension is switched by using the fuzzy reasoning. The effectiveness of the proposed semi-active suspension is verified by comparing with the passive suspension in the simulation study and the field test.

Keywords: damping force; field tests; fuzzy reasoning; passenger cars; semi-active suspension; vehicle suspension; vehicle design; fuzzy logic.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVD.1998.062100

International Journal of Vehicle Design, 1998 Vol.19 No.2, pp.150 - 166

Published online: 29 May 2014 *

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