Adaptive Dynamic Surface Control for Active Suspension With Electro-Hydraulic Actuator Parameter Uncertainty and External Disturbance

Abstract

In this paper, a new adaptive dynamic surface control strategy is proposed to deal with the uncertainty parameters of electro-hydraulic actuator and unknown external disturbances of vehicle active suspension system. A dynamic model of nonlinear vehicle active suspension is established. The adaptive parameter estimation laws are designed to estimate the uncertain parameters caused by the change of the physical characteristics of the electro-hydraulic actuator. In other words, the estimation of uncertain parameters in hydraulic system is beneficial to improve the control precision of vehicle. Nonlinear robust feedback signal is introduced to suppress unknown external disturbances. Then, this paper proposes an idea of dynamic surface in order to avoid explosion of complexity that caused by virtual control signal. The dynamic surface function replaces the derivative of virtual control signal in backstepping control, which reduces the computational complexity and improves the riding comfort. The simulation comparison shows that the presented method is effective in improving riding comfort and driving safety.

Keywords

• Active suspension
• electro-hydraulic actuator
• adaptive control
• dynamic surface control
• explosion of complexity