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Evaluation of Ride Comfort for Active Suspension System Based on Self-tuning Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control

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This paper describes the application of a self-tuning fuzzy sliding mode controller (STFSMC) to design the control signal of an electro-hydraulic actuator under standard road excitation based on ISO 8608. The proposed damper was designed to achieve effective vibration isolation with an actuator force. The proposed damper was incorporated into a quarter-car system through experiments for the subsequent dynamic analysis of the suspension system. A single-input single-output (SISO) fuzzy inference was strategically used to regulate the slope of a sliding surface. In addition, the fuzzy control methodology was applied to achieve self-tuning online output of the scale factor of the fuzzy sliding mode controller. The comfortable riding time and ride comfort level were also evaluated based on ISO 2631-1. Experimental results revealed that the proposed controller demonstrated evident improvements in vehicle vibration suppression and the ride quality in comparison with passive and fuzzy logic controller control systems.

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This work was supported by Ministry of Science and Technology Taiwan (MOST 109-2221-E-011-051-MY2), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and National Cheng-Kung University.

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    Yu-Hsien Wang

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Chun-Yu Hsiao received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. She currently has several inventions, new patents and journals. She was the first to win the HIWIN Master Thesis Award and HIWIN Doctoral Dissertation Award in the field of Electrical Engineering in Taiwan. In 2015, she was awarded the Motor Achievement Award-Nagamori Award. She is the first Ethnic Chinese and the youngest winner. She is currently an Assistant Professor with NTUST. Her research interests include science and technology of renewable energy, electric machinery, high performance motor design, lighting engineering, and fixture design.

Yu-Hsien Wang received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineer from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineer from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 2006 and 2012, respectively. His current research interests include electron-hydraulic servo system, automatic control, data mining, image recognition, and machine learning.

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Hsiao, CY., Wang, YH. Evaluation of Ride Comfort for Active Suspension System Based on Self-tuning Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 20, 1131–1141 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-020-0736-7

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