Integrated multi-criteria velocity and semi-active suspension control based on look-ahead road information

Abstract

Semi-active suspension control and vehicle cruise control systems have already been developed by researchers and adapted by automotive companies. Most of these systems react on actual road irregularities and terrain characteristics, and the control for each subsystem is designed separately. However, since oncoming road conditions can be known by using historic road information and GPS navigation system, the paper introduces a method to build in look-ahead road data in the control of the adaptive semi-active suspension, moreover, design the vehicle velocity for the cruise controller considering comfort and energy efficiency at the same time. The operation of the presented integrated suspension and velocity control system is validated by a real data simulation in TruckSim environment.