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Nonlinear Disturbance Observer-Based Control for Active Suspension System via Disturbance Estimation-Triggered Approach

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper presents a novel disturbance estimation-triggered control solution for the robust tracking problem of active suspensions.

Methods

A disturbance estimation-triggered mechanism based on a nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) combined with a disturbance effect indicator (DEI) is introduced to reject detrimental disturbances while preserving beneficial disturbances. To simultaneously deal with the exogenous and endogenous uncertainties, an uncertain nonlinear model is adopted in the control design. Unlike previous results, which required a measure of the sprung mass vertical displacement, the proposed strategy requires only the measure of the suspension deflection and facilitates the practical implementation. A linear oscillator with high-static-low-dynamic stiffness is proposed to generate the dynamic reference trajectory.

Results

The proposed active suspension control system is rigorously proven to be input-to-state stable (ISS) by virtue of Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, the proposed controller is used in experimental and numerical environments and compared with classical disturbance-rejection controllers.

Conclusion

Detailed results with various road conditions are provided to demonstrate the improved transient and steady-state tracking performances of the proposed control framework.

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The authors would like to thank the editors and the reviewers for their valuable suggestions.

Funding

This work was partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (51605108), Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province (2018GXNSFAA281271, 2019JJA160101, GuikeAD18281063), and Science and Technology Major Project of Guangxi Province (AA19046004).

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Gang Wang designed the method and wrote the manuscript, and Hui Jing and Chunyue Huang validated the method and reviewed the manuscript. All authors revised the final manuscript.

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Wang, G., Jing, H. & Huang, C. Nonlinear Disturbance Observer-Based Control for Active Suspension System via Disturbance Estimation-Triggered Approach. J. Vib. Eng. Technol. 9, 1373–1386 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-021-00303-z

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