Design of Active Force Controller for Off-Road Seat Suspension equipped to MR Damper

Abstract

by electromagnetic flux. It is called smart fluid due to having controllable parameters such as damping ratio by electricity variations. Thus, suspension can dampen oscillation by low electricity current efficiently. The current paper introduces a novel active force control (AFC) equipped with an iterative learning estimator for seat suspension via MR damper. Results of simulations show that it can cancel vibration perfectly. The suspension was coupled to the human body vibration model, and the driver vibration results have been obtained. It is important to note that active force control can also be used to eliminate high-velocity disturbances. Since the vibrations that occur in the car have a high rate of change, the results indicated that active force control equipped with an iterative learning estimator system can be effective in reducing the transmission vibration to the driver so that the first and second vibration peaks was reduced by about 60%.