• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.24 no.2 s.173
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• pp.347-354
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• 2000

This paper presents performance characteristics of a semi-active suspension featuring continuously variable ER (electro-rheological) dampers. These are evaluated through the field test of a passeng er car. Four ER dampers (two for front and two for rear part) are manufactured and their field-dependent damping properties are experimentally investigated. The damping force responses to step input fields are also identified by employing small size of high voltage amplifiers which are made adaptable to the field test. A skyhook controller considering the vertical, pitch and roll motions is formulated and incorporated with a car to be tested. The field test is then undertaken in order to evaluate both comfortability and steering stability showing bump, dive and squat responses.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.293-298
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• 1993

In ground vehicles, the increasing demand for safety and ride comfort which are trade-off relation, especially at high speeds, has led to the development od actively controlled suspensions. The LQG/LTR controller can be used to design a robust feedback control system that deals with disturbance rejection properties as well as insensitivity to modelling errors and sensor noise. And when the disturbance can not be measured but is limited within a certain frequency range, a bandpass feedback to eliminate the disturbance response can be used. In this paper, hybrid controller cosisted of bandpass feedback controller and LQG/LTR controller is applied to a quarter-car model moving on a randomly profiled road. The random road profile considered as colored noise is shaped from white noise by use of shaping filter. The performance of the hybrid control system is compared with that of an LQG/LTR controlled system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.146-153
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• 2004

Torsion beam rear suspension has been widely adopted to the rear suspension of vehicle by reason of simple structure and cost competitiveness. Since the kinematic characteristics of torsion beam rear suspension are determined by elastic behavior of torsion beam, quasi-static analysis based on finite element modeling of torsion beam has been conducted to obtain the kinematic parameters of torsion beam rear suspension. In this paper, simple kinematic equations with rear geometric parameters are derived to predict the kinematic behavior of torsion beam rear suspension. The suspension design parameters such as roll center height, roll stiffness, roll steer and roll camber can be easily obtained with the kinematic equations. The suggested kinematic equations are validated from comparison with the test results and solution offered by ADAMS. The suspension design parameters varied with the position of torsion beam are discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.34-44
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• 2000

In this paper, a modified skyhook control for the semi-active Macpherson suspension system is investigated. A new model for the semi-active type suspension, which incorporates the rotational motion of the unsprung mass, is introduced and an output feedback control law using the skyhook control method is derived. The gains in the skyhook controller are adaptively adjusted by estimating the road conditions. Because two vertical acceleration sensors, one for the sprung mass and another for the unsprung mass, are used rather than using the angle sensor for the rotational motion of the control arm, the relative velocity of the rattle space is filtered using the acceleration signals. For testing the control performance, the actual damping force has been incorporated via the hardware-in-the-loop simulations. The performances of a passive damper and a semi-active damper are compared. Simulation results are provided.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.74-81
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• 1995

In this paper, a composite controller cosisted of bandpass feedback controller and LQG/LTR controller is applied to a quarter-car model moving on a randomly profiled road. The LQG/LTR controller is used to achieve a design transfer toop. A bandpass feedback controller is adopted to eliminate the response due to the disturbance, which generally can not be measured, confined within an interested frequence range. The random road profile considered as colored noise is shaped from white noise by use of shaping filter. The performance of the composite control system is compared with that of an LQG/LTR control system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 2013

In military vehicles moving over poor roads, severe vibration of the chassis can damage internal components. Currently, many studies have focused on active and semi-active suspensions to reduce the vibration of the chassis. In this study, a vibration reduction technique is suggested by applying a unique rotating suspension structure. SH-ADD, a type of modified Skyhook, was selected as a controller for vibration reduction. A random ISO class E road was selected as the driving road. The simulation was performed using ADAMS Control and Matlab Simulink. The control result was compared with the RMS acceleration with a focus on the cumulative fatigue of the internal equipment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1147-1152
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• 2006

This paper proposed modelling and design method in suspension system design to analyze sky hook damper system by adopting active robust control theory. Recent in the field of suspension system design it is general to adopt active control scheme for stiffness and damping, and connection with other vehicle stability control equipment is also intricate, it is required for control system scheme to design more robust, higher response and precision control equipment. It is known that sky hook suspension system is better than passive spring-damper system in designing suspension equipment. We analyze location of sensor and actuator in sky hook system and its motion equation, then design robust control system. Numerical example is shown for validity of robust control system design in active sky hook suspension system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.163-166
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• 2007

최근에 국내외의 인공지능 분야에서는, 강화학습(reinforcement learning)에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 능동형 현가장치(active-suspension)의 제어를 위하여 RLS 기반 NAC(natural actor-critic)을 활용한 강화학습 기법을 적용해보고, 그 성능을 시뮬레이션을 통해 확인해본다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.102-109
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• 1998

As the fundamental study of an active suspension system, computer simulation is performed using a quarter model. Design data for the development of active suspension system are presented through performance estimation of active control laws in the time and frequency domain. The verification of compromise between ride quality and handling characteristics is carried out.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.513-517
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• 1995

In this paper, a relation of matrix Q in cost function to distances between the closed-loop and open-loop poles of a multi input controllable systems is studied. Futhmore, the state feedback gain with exact desired eigenvalues in the LQR is computed. The proposed scheme is applied to designing automotive active suspension control system for a half-car model and its performance is compared with the existing LQR control system design methodology.