An input delay approach to digital control of suspension systems

Abstract

This paper investigates the problem of robust sampled-data H∞ control for active vehicle suspension systems. By using an input delay approach, the active vehicle suspension system with sampling measurements is transformed into a continuous-time system with a delay in the state. The transformed system contains possibly non-differentiable time-varying state delay. The controller design is cast into a convex optimization problem with LMI constraints. A quarter-car model with active suspension system is considered and the effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated by a realistic design example.