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An LPV Control Approach for Comfort and Suspension Travel Improvements of Semi-Active Suspension Systems Anh Lam Do, Cristiano Spelta, Sergio Savaresi, Olivier Sename, Luc Dugard and Diego Delvecchio Abstract—In this paper, we present a new H /LPV con- trol method to improve the trade-off between comfort and suspension travel. Firstly, a semi-active automotive suspen- sion equipped with a nonlinear static semi-active damper is presented. Secondly, the semi-active suspension system is reformulated in the LPV framework which can be handled in a polytopic way. Finally, in numerical analysis, to emphasize the performance of the proposed controller, the end-stop event is introduced. The results show that the proposed method provides a good improvement in comfort and suspension travel compared with other strategies. I. INTRODUCTION Among the many different types of controlled suspensions (see e.g. [1] for a detailed classification), semi-active sus- pensions have received a lot of attention in the last two decades, since they provide the best compromise between cost (energy-consumption and actuators/sensors hardware) and performance (see e.g. [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]). A classical semi-active suspension is characterized by the closed-loop regulation of the damping coefficient; the electronic modulation of the damping coefficient is obtained with Magneto-Rheological (MR), Electro-Rheological (ER) or Electro-Hydraulic (EH) technologies. In the last years, variable-damping semi-active suspensions have had a large growth, and today they are employed over a wide range of application domains: road vehicles suspensions, cabin sus- pensions in trucks or agricultural tractors, seat suspensions, lateral suspensions in high-speed trains, etc. (see e.g. [6], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [7], [15]). It can be seen that the main semi-active suspension con- trol problems to be solved are trade-offs between comfort, handling and suspension travel. In [16], the semi-active control problem has been explored using Linear Parameter Varying (LPV ) technique. The methodology is based on a nonlinear static model of the semi-active damper, where the bi-viscous and hysteretic behaviors of the semi-active damper are taken into account. Then, the nonlinear system associated with the quarter vehicle model is reformulated in the LPV framework. The passivity problem of semi-active dampers is recast into the problem of input saturation. Finally, the H /LPV controller is synthesized to achieve the performance A. L. Do, O. Sename and L. Dugard are with GIPSA-lab, Control Systems Dept, CNRS-Grenoble INP, ENSE3, BP 46, F-38402 St Mar- tin d’H` eres cedex, France {anh-lam.do, olivier.sename, luc.dugard}@gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr C. Spelta is with Universit` a degli Studi di Bergamo, viale Marconi 5, 24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy [email protected] S. Savaresi, D. Delvecchio are with Dipartimento di Elettronica e Infor- mazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci, 32,20133, Milano - Italy {savaresi, delvecchio}@elet.polimi.it objectives (passenger comfort and handling) while satisfying the passivity constraint of semi-active dampers. In this paper, the trade-off between passenger comfort and suspension travel will be considered. It is quite obvious, while the comfort/handling trade-off has been studied in many approaches during the past decades, that the suspension travel issue has not been always considered. Hitting the structural limits when road disturbance is particularly tough degrades dramatically the passenger comfort (the so-called end-stop effect) and decreases the lifetime of vehicle com- ponents. The LPV control method used in [16] is modified by including a comfort oriented control rule - Acceleration Driven Damping Control (ADD) (see e.g [7]) and a schedul- ing factor that permits an improvement of suspension travel. The outline is as follows. In Section II, the quarter car model with a nonlinear semi-active damper and the control problem on this model are presented. In Section III, a new H /LPV controller to improve the trade-off between comfort and suspension travel is designed. In Section IV, the results obtained in simulations with a nonlinear quarter car model are discussed. Finally, some conclusions and perspectives are drawn in Section V. II. PROBLEM STATEMENT A. Quarter Car Model Consider a simple model of quarter vehicle (see Fig. 1) made up of a sprung mass (m s ) and an unsprung mass (m us ). A spring with the stiffness coefficient k s and a semi-active damper connect both masses. The wheel tire is modeled by a spring with the stiffness coefficient k t . In this model, z s (respectively z us ) is the vertical position of m s (respectively m us ) and z r is the road profile. It is assumed that the wheel- road contact is ensured. The dynamical equations of a quarter vehicle are governed z s z us z r m s m us k s Semi-active damper k t Fig. 1. Model of quarter vehicle with a semi-active damper. hal-00533206, version 1 - 5 Nov 2010 Author manuscript, published in "49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta : États-Unis (2010)"

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An LPV Control Approach for Comfort and Suspension TravelImprovements of Semi-Active Suspension Systems

Anh Lam Do, Cristiano Spelta, Sergio Savaresi, Olivier Sename, Luc Dugard and Diego Delvecchio

Abstract— In this paper, we present a new H∞/LPV con-trol method to improve the trade-off between comfort andsuspension travel. Firstly, a semi-active automotive suspen-sion equipped with a nonlinear static semi-active damperis presented. Secondly, the semi-active suspension system isreformulated in the LPV framework which can be handled in apolytopic way. Finally, in numerical analysis, to emphasize theperformance of the proposed controller, the end-stop event isintroduced. The results show that the proposed method providesa good improvement in comfort and suspension travel comparedwith other strategies.

I. INTRODUCTION

Among the many different types of controlled suspensions(see e.g. [1] for a detailed classification), semi-active sus-pensions have received a lot of attention in the last twodecades, since they provide the best compromise betweencost (energy-consumption and actuators/sensors hardware)and performance (see e.g. [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]).

A classical semi-active suspension is characterized bythe closed-loop regulation of the damping coefficient; theelectronic modulation of the damping coefficient is obtainedwith Magneto-Rheological (MR), Electro-Rheological (ER)or Electro-Hydraulic (EH) technologies. In the last years,variable-damping semi-active suspensions have had a largegrowth, and today they are employed over a wide range ofapplication domains: road vehicles suspensions, cabin sus-pensions in trucks or agricultural tractors, seat suspensions,lateral suspensions in high-speed trains, etc. (see e.g. [6], [8],[9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [7], [15]).

It can be seen that the main semi-active suspension con-trol problems to be solved are trade-offs between comfort,handling and suspension travel. In [16], the semi-activecontrol problem has been explored using Linear ParameterVarying (LPV ) technique. The methodology is based on anonlinear static model of the semi-active damper, where thebi-viscous and hysteretic behaviors of the semi-active damperare taken into account. Then, the nonlinear system associatedwith the quarter vehicle model is reformulated in the LPVframework. The passivity problem of semi-active dampersis recast into the problem of input saturation. Finally, theH∞/LPV controller is synthesized to achieve the performance

A. L. Do, O. Sename and L. Dugard are with GIPSA-lab, ControlSystems Dept, CNRS-Grenoble INP, ENSE3, BP 46, F-38402 St Mar-tin d’Heres cedex, France anh-lam.do, olivier.sename,[email protected]

C. Spelta is with Universita degli Studi di Bergamo, viale Marconi 5,24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy [email protected]

S. Savaresi, D. Delvecchio are with Dipartimento di Elettronica e Infor-mazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci, 32,20133, Milano -Italy savaresi, [email protected]

objectives (passenger comfort and handling) while satisfyingthe passivity constraint of semi-active dampers.

In this paper, the trade-off between passenger comfort andsuspension travel will be considered. It is quite obvious,while the comfort/handling trade-off has been studied inmany approaches during the past decades, that the suspensiontravel issue has not been always considered. Hitting thestructural limits when road disturbance is particularly toughdegrades dramatically the passenger comfort (the so-calledend-stop effect) and decreases the lifetime of vehicle com-ponents. The LPV control method used in [16] is modifiedby including a comfort oriented control rule - AccelerationDriven Damping Control (ADD) (see e.g [7]) and a schedul-ing factor that permits an improvement of suspension travel.

The outline is as follows. In Section II, the quarter carmodel with a nonlinear semi-active damper and the controlproblem on this model are presented. In Section III, a newH∞/LPV controller to improve the trade-off between comfortand suspension travel is designed. In Section IV, the resultsobtained in simulations with a nonlinear quarter car modelare discussed. Finally, some conclusions and perspectives aredrawn in Section V.

II. PROBLEM STATEMENT

A. Quarter Car Model

Consider a simple model of quarter vehicle (see Fig. 1)made up of a sprung mass (ms) and an unsprung mass (mus).A spring with the stiffness coefficient ks and a semi-activedamper connect both masses. The wheel tire is modeled bya spring with the stiffness coefficient kt . In this model, zs(respectively zus) is the vertical position of ms (respectivelymus) and zr is the road profile. It is assumed that the wheel-road contact is ensured.The dynamical equations of a quarter vehicle are governed

h

zs

zus

zr

ms

mus

ks Semi-activedamper

kt

Fig. 1. Model of quarter vehicle with a semi-active damper.

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by mszs =−Fspring−Fdampermuszus = Fspring +Fdamper− kt (zus− zr)

(1)

where Fspring = kszde f is the spring force, zde f = zs− zusis the damper deflection (assumed to be measured or esti-mated), zde f = zs− zus is the deflection velocity.

In this paper, the behavior of a realistic semi-active suspen-sion is represented using the following nonlinear equation,as in [17]

Fdamper = c0zde f + k0zde f + fI tanh(c1zde f + k1zde f

)(2)

where c0, k0, c1 and k1 are constant parameters and fI is acontrollable force. The interest in this model is that it allowsfulfilling the passivity constraint of the semi-active damperby considering only the constraint

0≤ fmin ≤ fI ≤ fmax (3)

The dynamical equations (1)-(2) can then be rewritten as mszs =−(ks + k0)zde f − c0zde f − fI tanh(c1zde f + k1zde f

)muszus = (ks + k0)zde f + c0zde f + fI tanh

(c1zde f + k1zde f

)− kt (zus− zr)

(4)

B. The End-stop Phenomenon

The end-stop phenomenon happens when the piston hitsthe rubber bushings because of the tough road disturbance.This phenomenon generates a shock that makes passengersuncomfortable. In this paper, the end-stop effect is simplymodeled as follows:

Fspring =

kszde f if |zde f |< ∆eskeszde f if |zde f | ≥ ∆es

(5)

where ∆es is the suspension stroke and kes ks (typicallyrepresents the stiffness of rubber bushings).

The end-stop effect is shown in Fig. 2. It is obvious thathitting the structural limits deteriorates dramatically the carbody acceleration (i.e the passenger comfort).

Fig. 2. Time history of the suspension deflection (top) and the bodyacceleration (bottom), with and without the end-stops.

C. Cost Function

In this paper, the following criteria are used to evaluatethe performance of the proposed controller

Jacc =

√1T

∫ T

0z2

s (t) (6)

Jde f =

√1T

∫ T

0z2

de f (t) (7)

where zs(t) is the filtered car body acceleration (by ISO 2631filter) [m/s2], zde f is the damper deflection [m] and T is thesimulation running time [s]. The ISO 2631 filter (see [18])represents the sensitivity of human to body car accelerationand is given as

FISO−2631 =81.89s3 +796.6s2 +1937s+0.1446

s4 +80.00s3 +2264s2 +7172s+21196(8)

The criteria (6) and (7) are used to evaluate the comfortand the suspension travel, respectively. It can be seen thatwhen the end-stop event occurs, the peak values in car bodyacceleration (as seen in Fig. 2) resulting from this effect willbe taken into account in J.

D. Acceleration Driven Damping Control (ADD)

This paper is based on the extension of ADD control rule[6]. The ADD is based on a linear model of the electronicshock absorber, F = czde f where zde f is the suspensiondeflection velocity and c is the damping coefficient that mayvary from a minimum value cmin to a maximum value cmax.

The ADD switching rule is as follows:

c =

cmax if zszde f > 0cmin if zszde f ≤ 0 (9)

ADD, a comfort-oriented control method, has been provento approximate the solution of an optimal control problemwhere the cost function is the integral of the squared bodycar acceleration, the suspension system is modeled as alinear quarter car, the road disturbance is described as awhite noise and the optimization horizon is based on onestep of simulation. The limitation of this method is that thesuspension travel has been not improved.

III. CONTROL DESIGN FOR COMFORT AND STROKE

To obtain a better compromise between the ride qualityand the suspension travel, a new control method is presentedas follows

fI = fmaxhsw +(u+α fmax)(1−hsw) (10)= fmax[α +hsw(1−α)]+u(1−hsw)

where 0≤ α ≤ 1 and hsw ∈ 0,1 are two parameters and uis the control input to design. In the following, the roles ofα , hsw and u are explained.• The switching control rule hsw is chosen so that it

specially enhances the passenger comfort. In this paper,the design of hsw is based on the ADD control rule (9).

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• It can be seen that the smaller α , the more comfortablethe car but the bigger the suspension travel and vice-versa.

• The control input u is designed in the H∞/LPV frame-work to improve the suspension travel without deterio-rating the comfort too much for all values of hsw andα .

A. Design of Comfort-Oriented Switching Controller hsw

The following control rule is inspired by the exist-ing ADD algorithm developed for the linear suspensionsystems in [7]. The idea turns out to be very sim-ple. Looking at (1) and (2), the only variable parame-ter is fI , so when zs tanh

(c1zde f + k1zde f

)> 0, for ex-

ample zs and tanh(c1zde f + k1zde f

)are positive, zs will

rapidly decrease to zero if fI = fmax. On the contrary, whenzs tanh

(c1zde f + k1zde f

)≤ 0, zs will be kept not floating away

from zero if fI = fmin. Hence, the on-off comfort-orientedcontrol rule is summarized as follows:

fI =

fmax if zs tanh

(c1zde f + k1zde f ) > 0

)(i.e hsw = 1)

fmin if zs tanh(c1zde f + k1zde f )≤ 0

)(i.e hsw = 0)

(11)

Noticing that in the case of linear semi-active damper, k1=0,sign(tanh

(c1zde f + k1zde f

))≡ sign(zde f ), the rule (11) is the

same as the conventional ADD algorithm.

B. Choice of α

In order to detect the suspension travel limits (the End-stop event) and to enlarge as much as possible the capacityof the H∞/LPV controllers, α can be chosen as

α(ε) = 0.5µε2n

µε2n +1/µ(12)

where µ modifies the slope of the α(ε) function and ischosen sufficiently high, n is an integer. See Fig. 3 for variousvalues of α .

In this paper, ε = zde f + zde f /λ . The factor λ can beroughly chosen so that α(ε) is close to zero when the carbody acceleration of the open loop system ( fI = 0) is closeto zero. Not that, from Eq. (4), one has

zs = 0⇔ zde f +c0

ks + k0zde f = 0 (with fI = 0)

So λ = (ks + k0)/c0 can be a good choice.

C. H∞/LPV Control Design u

From Eq. (10), the constraint (3) on fI is tantamount tothe following inequality

|u| ≤ fα (13)

where fα = minα,1−α fmax. Hence, the passivity con-straint of the semi-active damper is recast as the saturationconstraint on the control input u.

Fig. 3. Various values of α

1) LPV Formulation For Ideal Linear Design: For sim-plicity, in this step, the saturation constraint (13) is omitted.The nonlinear model (1)-(2)-(10) is now rewritten in the LPVframework.

P :

xs = (As +Bs2[α+hsw(1−α)] tanh(Cs2xs)

Cs2xsCs2)xs

+Bs(1−hsw)tanh(Cs2xs)u+Bs1wy = Csxs

(14)

where xs=(zs, zs, zus, zus)T , u: control input, w=zr distur-

bance, y=zs-zus measurement output,

As =

0 1 0 0

− ks+k0ms

− c0ms

ks+k0ms

c0ms

0 0 0 1ks+k0

mus

c0mus

− ks+k0+ktmus

− c0mus

Bs =

0− 1

ms01

mus

, Bs1 =

000kt

mus

, Bs2 =

0− fmax

ms0

fmaxmus

,

Cs =(

1,0,−1,0), Cs2 =

(k1,c1,−k1,−c1

)In (14) the control input matrix Bs(1− hsw)tanh(Cs2xs)

is parameter dependent, which is not consistent with thesolution of the H∞ design problem for systems as in [19],[20]. This problem can be easily solved by adding a strictlyproper filter into (14) to make the controlled input matrixindependent from the scheduling parameter (see [21]). Be-sides, this filter allows for modeling low-pass dynamics ofsemi-active dampers.

F :(

x fu

)=(

A f B fC f 0

)(x fuc

)(15)

where A f , B f , C f are constant matrices and uc is thecontroller output.

2) LPV Reformulation For Linear Design with Input Sat-uration: Let now include the saturation constraint (13) inthe LPV controller design. First the system is augmented byadding a saturating function block as in Fig. 4. where

-- -- F Pyu fuc u

Fig. 4. Linear design with input saturation.

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u = sat(u f ) =

fα if u f > fα

u f if − fα ≤ u f ≤ fα

− fα if u f <− fα

(16)

To cope with a linear control design, the saturation func-tion sat(u f ) is roughly approximated by a tangent hyperbolicfunction: fα tanh( u f

fα) or fα tanh(C f x f

fα). The interest of the

use of tangent hyperbolic function is its bounded derivativewhich may be exploited in LPV design with parameters-dependent Lyapunov function to reduce the conservatism (infuture work). The state-space representation of the transferfunction from uc to u is then:

F1 :(

x fu

)=(

A f B fC f tanh(ψ)/ψ 0

)(x fuc

)(17)

where ψ = C f x ffα

Finally, from (14) and (17), an LPV model formulationfor the semi-active suspension control problem is given asfollows

x = A(ρ1,ρ2)x+Buc +B1wy = Cx (18)

where x =(

xsT x f

T )T

A(ρ1,ρ2) =(

As +ρ2Bs2Cs2 ρ1BsC f0 A f

),

B =(

0B f

), B1 =

(Bs10

), C =

(Cs0

)T

and two scheduling parametersρ1 = (1−hsw) tanh(Cs2xs)

tanh(ψ)ψ

where ψ = C f x ffα

ρ2 = [α +hsw(1−α)] tanh(Cs2xs)Cs2xs

Let us note that the LPV formulation presented above issimilar to the one given in [16]. The main difference relieson both scheduling parameters ρ1 and ρ2 which here dependon the exogenous signals hsw and α . This will be useful toimprove of comfort and suspension travel, respectively, whilethe same is not true in the LPV formulation in [16].

Note also that ρ1 and ρ2 are not independent. Fig. 5 depictsthe set of (ρ1, ρ2). It is represented by the bounded areabelow the continuous curve.

Fig. 5. Scheduling parameters ρ1 and ρ2

3) Comfort/Stroke H∞/LPV Controller: The structure forthe controller synthesis is presented in Fig. 6. The H∞ controlproblem for the LVP system (with scheduling parametersρ1 and ρ2) consists in finding an LPV controller K(ρ1,ρ2)such that the closed-loop system is quadratically stable andthat, for a given positive real γ , the L2-induced norm of theoperator mapping w1 into (z1 , z2)T is bounded by γ for allpossible trajectories of (ρ1 , ρ2)T . The H∞/LPV controllercan be obtained by solving an LMIs problem (see [19] and[20]).

zs

zde f

Wzs

Wzde f

zr

u

zde f

zde f , zs

ρ1,ρ2

K(ρ1,ρ2)

P

F

z1

z2

-

-

-

Wzr-w1

u f

uc

Fig. 6. Structure for H∞/LPV controller design.

Although they are not independent, ρ1 and ρ2 are consid-ered in this design as independent parameters and (ρ1, ρ2)belongs to a larger polytope whose vertices are P1 = (−1,1),P2 = (1,0), P3 = (1,1), P4 = (0,1). At each vertex, a localH∞ controller will be found. Then, a convex hull of theselocal controllers gives the global LPV controller.

As seen in Eq. (12) and Eq. (13), the role of u is stronglyemphasized when α ≈ 0.5 (i.e when the suspension is goingto reach its structural limits). The aim of the H∞/LPVdesign is to minimize the frequency response zde f /zr in highfrequencies [5-20] Hz (the suspension deflection is normallylarge around the ”tyrehop frequency”

√kt/mus ≈ 12 Hz)

while not deteriorating much zs/zr. Therefore the weightingfunctions for the H∞ controller synthesis have been chosenas:

Wzs = 3.65s2 +2ξ11Ω1s+Ω1

2

s2 +2ξ12Ω1s+Ω12

where Ω1 = 2π f1 with f1 = 10.7685 Hz, ξ11 = 5.65, ξ12 =0.091, and

Wzde f = 0.0218s2 +2ξ21Ω1s+Ω2

2

s2 +2ξ22Ω1s+Ω22

where Ω2 = 2π f2 with f2 = 10.3 Hz, ξ21 = 4.71, ξ22 =2.2326.

D. Analysis on Fixed Values of α

The following frequency response analysis is done byusing the ”variance gain” algorithm (see [6]) for nonlinearsystems. The ”variance gain” is simple and provides a goodapproximation to frequency response. In Fig. 7 and Fig. 8,

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the frequency responses of the closed-loop systems are donewith α=0 (good for comfort) and α=0.5 (good for stroke).These responses are upper and lower bounds of the closed-loop systems. All intermediate frequency responses of theclosed-loop systems, 0 ≤ α ≤ 0.5, will be found betweenthese two bounds.

Fig. 7. Frequency responses zs/zr

Fig. 8. Frequency responses zde f /zr

IV. NUMERICAL RESULTS

The quarter vehicle used in this paper is the quarter carRenault Megane Coupe (1/4 RMC) model (see [22]) withthe parameters presented in Tab. I. The spring used in thissimulation has a nonlinear characteristics. The MR dampermodel parameters are chosen according to the MR damperin [23] and summarized in Tab. I. In this numerical analysis,α is chosen as in Eq. (12) with µ = 108, n = 5 and λ = 30.

The standard road profile is represented by an integratedwhite noise, band-limited within the frequency range [0-30] Hz (see Fig. 9). The performance index (6) and (7)will be calculated with different road-profiles obtained bymultiplying the standard road-profile by a scaling factor β .To check the constraints of the H∞/LPV control design, aroad profile with β = 2 is chosen as the input disturbance.Looking at Fig. 10, the results show that the passivity

1/4 RMC Value MR damper Valuems 315[kg] c0 810.78[Ns/m]mus 37.5[kg] k0 620.79[N/m]ks 29500[N/m] fmin 0[N]kt 210000[N/m] fmax 914[N]− − c1 13.76[s/m]− − k1 10.54[1/s]− − ∆es 0.05[m]

TABLE IPARAMETER VALUES.

Fig. 9. Standard road profile zr

constraint is satisfied since the controllable force fI is kept inthe range [0−900] N because |u| ≤ fα where max( fα )=450[N].

The comparisons of the performance for different strate-gies, with β in [0.5− 3], are presented in Fig. 11-12-13.In general, the semi-active suspension with the proposedH∞/LPV control method is less sensitive to road input dis-turbances and provides a better comfort than other strategies.It then achieves the best compromise between comfort andsuspension travel.

V. CONCLUSIONS

In this paper, an H∞/LPV controller is designed to improvethe compromise between the passenger comfort and thesuspension travel. The simulation results have shown that theproposed control strategy provides a good passenger comfortand a good suspension travel while the passivity constraintis always satisfied.

The next step is to reduce the conservatism in the con-troller design. To do that, the smaller polytope P1P2P5P6P7P8can be employed instead of the one used in this paperP1P2P3P4, as seen in Fig. 5. In addition, by analogy, the trade-off between comfort and road holding will be considered infuture works.

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