Abstract:
A method for controlling a vehicle semi-active suspension system comprising at least one suspension, provides for: detecting vehicle dynamic quantities (S1,S2,...,Sn) during the vehicle ride; on the basis of the detected dynamic quantities, calculating target damping force characteristics (Fam[1:4]) for the at least one suspension of the suspension system (33) suitable to substantially minimize a vehicle body acceleration at the same time substantially maximizing a force transmitted by the at least one suspension to the road surface, said calculating being based on the Sky Hook control model; controlling (34,35,36) the at least one suspension to put the respective damping force characteristics in accordance with the calculated damping force characteristics. A fuzzy calculation is performed to determine, on the basis of the detected dynamic quantities and on a prescribed set of fuzzy rules, the target damping force characteristics.
Abstract:
A vehicle comprises at least one semiactive suspension (5) arranged between a vehicle body (2) and a wheel (4) and having a damping coefficient that can be varied in a controlled way by an actuator (14) governed by a control device (18). The control device comprises an accelerometric sensor (15) generating a vehicle body acceleration signal; a potentiometer (16) generating a suspension position signal; a signal conditioning unit (21) for the calculation of the vehicle body speed and the damping speed; a fuzzy control unit (23) which calculates the subsequent position of the actuator on the basis of the vehicle body speed and of the damping speed; and a driving unit (21) which generates a control signal (S1) for the actuator.
Abstract:
A circuit implementing a non-integer order dynamic system includes a neural network (1 to 5) adapted to receive at least one input signal (IS) and to generate therefrom at least one output signal (OS). The input and output signals (IS, OS) are related to each by a non-integer order integro-differential relationship through the coefficients of the neural network (1 to 5). A plurality (I, II) of such circuits, implementing respective non-integer order (PI λ D µ ) controllers can be interconnected in an arrangement wherein any of the integral (200) or differential (202) blocks included in one of those circuits generates a signal which is fed to any of the integral (200) or differential (204) blocks of another circuit in the system.