15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
DESIGN OF ROBUST CONTROLLERS FOR ACTIVE VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS
P. Gáspár* I. Szászi** J. Bokor*
* Computer and Automation Research Institute,
Kende u. 13-17, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
** Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Műegyetem rkp. 3, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary

This paper is concerned with the design of robust controllers for active suspensions using μ methods, which take the structure of the model uncertainty into consideration. The complex μ method is conservative in the case of the real parametric uncertainty, while in the mixed μ method, both the real parametric and the complex uncertainties are handled together. Two half-car model structures are constructed, a rigid half-car model, and a high-order flexible one, which is more realistic and closer to the real situation. In the example, the result of the mixed μ method will be compared with the complex μ method and the traditional methods.
Keywords: Robust control, vehicle dynamics, uncertainty
Session slot T-Th-E21: Posters of Transportation and Vehicles/Area code 8b : Automotive Control