H_∞ control of an active suspension system

Abstract

An H_∞ controller for an active suspension system is designed, which has taken the performance of ride comfort and the system robustness into account. Simulation results show that a concentrated weighting of the car body acceleration output, for the frequency where human being are most sensitive to vibration, has been executed by introducing the frequency dependent weighing function, thus the suspension acceleration frequency response characteristic can be improved. It is also pointed out that the designed controller is effective in the system robustness against the fluctuation of parameter of system.

Keywords

H_∞ control / active suspension / ride comfort / robustness

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