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Development and Control of Active Suspension System with Energy Regeneration Implementation Scheme


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1 Dept. of Mechatronics Engg., SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India
2 Automotive Engineering Research Institute, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
 

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Active suspension systems have been used in the recent years as they provide better ride comfort, road handling and safety. The effect of vehicle vibration caused by road roughness is effectively reduced by active suspension system which plays an important role in improving the vehicle performance indices. The application of active suspension system is limited because it consumes high amount of energy. From the point of energy saving, a regenerative active suspension system is designed and its working principle with two modes switched in different conditions was implemented. In this implementation scheme, operating electric circuits are designed based on different working status of the actuator and power source. In the first stage an electromotor mode in which an active suspension system uses a linear electric actuator controlled by constrained PID controller. In the generator mode, under certain circumstances using linear motor as actuators enables to transform mechanical energy of the car vibrations to electrical energy and accumulated to charge the energy-storage capacitor and fed back into the power source when needed.

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Active Suspension, Quarter Car, Linear Actuator, PID Controller, Electromotor Mode, Generator Mode.
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Authors

J. Thiyagarajan
Dept. of Mechatronics Engg., SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India
P. Sathishkumar
Automotive Engineering Research Institute, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
J. Arivarasan
Dept. of Mechatronics Engg., SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India
S. Rajeshkumar
Dept. of Mechatronics Engg., SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India
T.S. Rajalakshmi
Dept. of Mechatronics Engg., SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, India

Abstract


Active suspension systems have been used in the recent years as they provide better ride comfort, road handling and safety. The effect of vehicle vibration caused by road roughness is effectively reduced by active suspension system which plays an important role in improving the vehicle performance indices. The application of active suspension system is limited because it consumes high amount of energy. From the point of energy saving, a regenerative active suspension system is designed and its working principle with two modes switched in different conditions was implemented. In this implementation scheme, operating electric circuits are designed based on different working status of the actuator and power source. In the first stage an electromotor mode in which an active suspension system uses a linear electric actuator controlled by constrained PID controller. In the generator mode, under certain circumstances using linear motor as actuators enables to transform mechanical energy of the car vibrations to electrical energy and accumulated to charge the energy-storage capacitor and fed back into the power source when needed.

Keywords


Active Suspension, Quarter Car, Linear Actuator, PID Controller, Electromotor Mode, Generator Mode.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4273/ijvss.10.3.08