Bounded interval fuzzy control for half vehicle’s active suspension system

Abstract

A novel efficient control scheme for an active vehicle suspension system is to be designed and simulated in this paper. A half car model has been designed and controlled using two different schemes of standard fuzzy control and bounded interval fuzzy control using MATLAB/SIMULINK. The bounded interval fuzzy control is designed to reduce the uncertainties in the fuzzy sets system and solve the non-linear control problem that the standard fuzzy control cannot handle it. It should be noted that fuzzy logic system is capable of dealing with imprecise concepts and numerous vague but the design of membership functions is nontrivial task. This is because of uncertainty degree that is caused due to road inputs profiles, fuzzy knowledge rules and immeasurable disturbance. The proposed method is expected to be able to mimic the heuristic knowledge of design the membership functions which depends on degree of uncertainty. The membership functions will be generated online during the process in order to deal with uncertainties. The simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed control exhibits better performance and stability as compared to standard fuzzy logic. In addition, the proposed scheme presents a preferable solution and balancing achievement between ride comfort and handling performance. These results demonstrated that the body accelerations and tire dynamic loads will be reduced for the vehicle suspension system in either automobiles or robotics suspension systems.