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Dr Min Yu

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Imperial College Research Fellow
 
 
 
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564City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

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@article{Yu:2021:10.1109/TMECH.2021.3097153,
author = {Yu, M and Cheng, C and Evangelou, S and Dini, D},
doi = {10.1109/TMECH.2021.3097153},
journal = {IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics},
title = {Series active variable geometry suspension: full-car prototyping and road testing},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2021.3097153},
volume = {27},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - In  this  paper, afull-car  prototype  of  the  recently proposed    mechatronic    suspension,    Series    Active    Variable Geometry Suspension (SAVGS), is developed for on-road driving experimental proof of concept, aiming to be adopted by suspension OEMs   (original   equipment  manufacturers)   as   an   alternative solution   to   fully   active   suspensions. Particularly,   mechanical modifications are performed to both corners of the front double-wishbone suspensionof a production car, with active single-links attached to the upper-ends of the spring-damper units, while both corners  of the  rear suspension remain inthe  original  (passive) configurations.The mechanical modifications involve innovatively designed parts to enable  the  desired  suspension  performance improvements,  while maintaining ride  harshness  at  conventional levels.Areal-time embedded  system  is further developed  to primarily implement:1) power  supply, data acquisition  and measurementsof the  vehicle  dynamics  related  variables, and  2) robust control application for the ride comfort and road holding enhancement, which is based on a derived linearized model of the full-car dynamics and a newly synthesizedH-infinity  control scheme. Results obtained from on-road driving experiments are inessential   agreement   with   numerical   simulation   results also produced. Overall, the full-car prototypeof SAVGS demonstrates promising   suspension   performance,with   anaverage   3   dB attenuation (or equivalently 30% reduction) of the chassis vertical acceleration at aroundthe human-sensitive frequencies (2-5Hz),as compared  to  the  original vehicle  with  the passive  suspension system. More   importantly, the   prototype also indicatesthe practicality of the solution, as the SAVGS retrofit to a real car is achieved  by simple  mechanical  modifications,  compact  actuator packaging, smallmass increment(21.5kg increase with respect to the  original  vehicle), limited power usage
AU  - Yu,M
AU  - Cheng,C
AU  - Evangelou,S
AU  - Dini,D
DO  - 10.1109/TMECH.2021.3097153
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 1083-4435
TI  - Series active variable geometry suspension: full-car prototyping and road testing
T2  - IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2021.3097153
UR  - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9485043
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/90869
VL  - 27
ER  -
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