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This chapter uses a railway vehicle as an example of a mechanical dynamic system to which control can be applied in a manner that yields significant benefits from an engineering and operational viewpoint. The first part describes the fundamentals of railway vehicles and their dynamics: the normal configuration, the suspension requirements, how they are modelled and an overview of the types of control concept that are currently applied or under consideration. The second part provides a case study of controller design issues.
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Zolotas, A.C., Goodall, R.M. (2007). Modelling and Control of Railway Vehicle Suspensions. In: Turner, M.C., Bates, D.G. (eds) Mathematical Methods for Robust and Nonlinear Control. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 367. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-025-4_13
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