Optimum Preview Control of Vehicle Air Suspensions

Abstract

In this paper, the active vibration absorber controlling the pressure of the air spring is applied to a preview control system of a vehicle suspension. The front half-part of the vehicle functions as the sensor for the vibration absorption of the rear half-part. The design criterion for the optimum preview control absorber is the minimization of the rms value of the acceleration under the specified constraints on the relative displacement. The optimum preview system is realized by the feedforward and feedback compensation systems. Chang's optimum control theory is applied to the optimization. The experimental results show good coincidence with the analyses.