In this paper, a new control strategy is developed to improve comfort and roadholding of a ground vehicle equipped with an industrial damper. This damper can be controlled by means of a small servomechanism which adjusts the damping rate. The main controller is a linear parameter varying (LPV ) static state-feedback controller synthesized in the H∞/LPV framework to compute the required damping ...

In this paper, a road-frequency adaptive control for semi-active suspension systems is investigated. The control aims to improve the vehicle suspension performance (ride comfort and wheel handling) for all frequency regions of road disturbances. In order to achieve this aim, the control law is extended from the conventional skyhook control, and the controller gains are scheduled for various fre...

In this paper we consider the design and analysis of a semi-active suspension controller. In the recent years different kinds of semi-active control strategies, like two-state Skyhook, LQ-clipped or model-predictive, have already been developed in the literature. In this paper we introduce a new semi-active suspension control strategy that achieves a priori limitations of a semi-active suspensi...

This paper discusses a methodology of semi-active structural control using a variable friction damper. The presented algorithm is quite simple and straightforward, in which only the slip level of the friction damper is controlled in response to the interstory response velocity of the damperinstalled story so as to maintain the target constant ductility factor. In conducting control there is adv...

A number of passive structural vibration reduction technologies (earthquake protective systems) have already been used in structural engineering practice (e.g., base isolation systems and to a lesser extent, fluid dampers). The next frontier of implementing structural control technologies in practice is expected to be the semi-active type. These devices offer the advantages of an active control...