Ride comfort performance of different active suspension systems

International Journal of Vehicle Design

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 106-125

  Mántaras, Daniel A ^a,b   Luque, Pablo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Vehicle Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

Active suspension; Fuzzy logic; Handling stability; Kalman filter; LQR LQG; Neural network; Passive suspension; Pole assignment; Ride comfort; Robust design; Skyhook damper

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FUZZY SETS; WHEELS;

ACTIVE SUSPENSIONS; LQR-LQG; PASSIVE SUSPENSIONS; RIDE COMFORT;

VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

EID: 31044432531     PISSN: 01433369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJVD.2006.008456     Document Type: Article

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