Saturated adaptive robust control for active suspension systems

This paper investigates the problem of vibration control in vehicle active suspension systems, whose aim is to stabilize the attitude of the vehicle and improve ride comfort. In response to uncertainties in systems and the possible actuator saturation, a saturated adaptive robust control (ARC) strategy is proposed. Specifically, an antiwindup block is added to adjust the control strategy in a manner conducive to stability and performance preservation in the presence of saturation. Furthermore, the proposed saturated ARC approach is applied to the half-car active suspension systems, where nonlinear springs and piecewise linear dampers are adopted. Finally, the typical bump road inputs are considered as the road disturbances in order to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control law.