Study on the integrated structure/control design method of magnetorheological damper for improving vehicle posture

In order to achieve a good match between magnetorheological (MR) damper and vehicle Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH) quality and improve vehicle posture while driving, an integrated design method of MR damper structure/control for vehicle vibration suppression was proposed considering the coupling effect between MR damper structure parameters and controller parameters. A controller was designed to control the damping force generated by the tapered channel MR damper. Furthermore, the damping force expression of the tapered flow mode MR damper was derived, and the damping force was introduced into the vehicle dynamics model. In order to improve the vehicle posture, an integrated structure/control platform combining response surface model, current controller and vehicle dynamics model was established. Based on integrated platform, the vehicle dynamics model and Fourier transform were adopted to extract the time-frequency characteristics of the design objective under different working conditions. In the optimization process, the damper structure was optimized by taking the time domain values as the constraints and the frequency domain values as the optimization goals. The results show that the proposed integrated design method of MR damper can obtain its global optimal structural parameters under different driving conditions. The acceleration root mean square (RMS) values and frequency domain values of vehicle were both reduced to varying degrees, achieving the purpose of improving the vehicle posture.