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Novel mechatronic solutions incorporating inerters for railway vehicle vertical secondary suspensions

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posted on 2017-10-23, 15:18 authored by Alejandra Z. Matamoros-Sanchez, Roger Goodall
This paper discusses the effects of inerter-based passive networks in the design of novel mechatronic solutions for improving the vertical performance of a bogied railway vehicle. Combinations of inerter-based structures and active suspensions comprise distinct novel mechatronic solutions for the vertical secondary suspension of the vehicle. The parameters of the active and passive parts of the overall configuration are optimised so that a synergy arises to enhance the vehicle vertical performance and simplify common mechatronic suspension design conflicts. The study is performed by combining inerter-based suspensions with well-established active control (output-based and model-based) strategies for ride quality enhancement. Also, a novel nonlinear control strategy, here called Adaptive Stiffness, is incorporated for suspension deflection regulation to complement the well-known local implementation of skyhook damping. This would complete a significant set of control strategies to produce general conclusions. The vehicle performance is assessed through the vertical accelerations of the vehicle body as an initial investigation. Attained results show the potential of the inerter concept for innovating mechatronic technologies to achieve substantial improvements in railway vehicle vertical ride quality with reduced actuator force.

Funding

This work was supported by Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela and via a departmental scholarship from the School of Electronics, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University, UK.

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volume

53

Issue

2

Pages

113 - 136

Citation

MATAMOROROS-SANCHEZ, A. and GOODALL, R., 2015. Novel mechatronic solutions incorporating inerters for railway vehicle vertical secondary suspensions. Vehicle System Dynamics, 53 (2), pp.113-136.

Publisher

© Taylor & Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2014-10-25

Publication date

2014-12-08

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in 'Vehicle System Dynamics' on 08/12/2014, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/00423114.2014.983529.

ISSN

0042-3114

eISSN

1744-5159

Language

  • en