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This paper presents ride comfort and road holding analysis of passive and semi-active suspension system using quarter car model. Semi-active suspension system with magnetorheological (MR) damper was modeled as non-parametric model-based magnetic flux density in the fluid flow gap. The skyhook control strategy was used to analyze semi-active control performance. The simulation of passive and semi-active suspension system was carried out under random road profile for different velocities. The result shows that semi-active suspension has significant improvement in terms of ride comfort and road holding of vehicle than passive suspension system. Experimental studies have been conducted to characterize MR damper and a good match is observed between results with simulation results obtained using non-parametric model.
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The authors acknowledge the funding support from Department of Science and Technology (DST): No.SB/FTP/ETA-0071/2013 and also acknowledge SOLVE Lab: The Virtual Lab @ NITK (http://www.solve.nitk.ac.in) and Centre for System Design (CSD): A Centre of excellence at NITK-Surathkal for providing experimental facility.
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Hemanth, K., Kumar, H. & Gangadharan, K.V. Vertical dynamic analysis of a quarter car suspension system with MR damper. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. 39, 41–51 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-015-0481-7
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