The problem of optimal vibration control for vehicle active suspension systems under road roughness disturbance is considered. First, the models for two-degree-freedom quarter-car suspension system under road roughness disturbance are presented, and road disturbances are considered as the output of an exosystem. Then, the feedforward and feedback optimal vibration control (FFOVC) law for vehicl...

Understanding condition of road surface is very important especially for road maintenance and asset management. There are many approaches to obtain road surface condition data, however almost all of them are either low speed with intensive human intervention techniques (visual inspection) or techniques that require advanced measurement equipment (sophisticated profilers), which usually comes wi...

A Functional Virtual Prototyping full vehicle model for a tri-axial heavy-duty truck is built, and the nonlinearity of suspension dampers and tires is also considered. With the trajectory of full vehicle gravity center, longitudinal tire force of front wheel, longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration, yaw rate and pitch angle as the evaluation indexes of brake property, the influences of ...

The present paper deals with a view of the availability of high-speed sensor profilers, which has given dramatically increased possibilities to analyze imperfections in pavement surfaces such as roughness. Technical parameters of such profilers, for sensing and analyzing pavement surface profile are described. In addition, the main investigation concentrates on the evolutional process of paveme...

Changes in the aerodynamic characteristics of a site can have a major influence on the wind regime at the surface/air interface along a road which in turn has a local effect on road surface temperatures. Traditionally a parameter known as roughness length (Z0) is used as the primary measure of the aerodynamic roughness of a surface, but Z0 is notoriously difficult to estimate. This study takes ...

For the analysis of surface height profiles we present a new stochastic approach which is based on the theory of Markov processes. With this analysis we achieve a characterization of the complexity of the surface roughness by means of a Fokker-Planck or Langevin equation, providing the complete stochastic information of multiscale joint probabilities. The method was applied to different road su...