Book

Abstract & Key features

This book is concerned with the description and the complete analysis of the semi-active suspension control problem and existing strategies. It provides a comprehensive overview and treatment of semi-active suspension systems with an emphasis on performance analysis and control design. Several different approaches, using different control theories (such as LPV, MPC or non-linear), are presented and evaluated. A methodology is presented to analyze and evaluate suspension performances while identifying optimal performance bounds. Two innovative semi-active suspension strategies to enhance either comfort or road-holding performances are highlighted and analyzed.

The book includes survey sections, where the problem, the methodologies and related works are introduced in a tutorial framework, to suit a non familiar reader. Therefore, the book can be effectively accessed at three reading levels:

• A tutorial for students in automotive systems,

• An application-oriented approach, introducing original semi-active methodologies appropriate for engineers and practitioners, and

• A control design-oriented one, introducing original semi-active suspensions control algorithms for researchers

Matlab data code - Download (11Mo)

Researchers, Engineers and Students may be interested in comparing their control strategy to the one given in this book. The above link provides the Frequency Response and the Performance index of:

• The passive quarter car model with cmin and cmax (chapter 4)

• The optimal comfort and road holding behavior (chapter 5)

• The SH-ADD, with alpha=20 (chapter 7)

• The "LPV semi-active Hinf" comfort and road-holding (chapter 8)

evaluated for the the quarter car model with the motorcycle parameters (as given in Table 1.2 of the book). You are free to use these figures if you aim at comparing your control synthesis with some existing ones, but please, cite references of the book/papers.