Adaptive Robust Active Vibration Control for Vehicle Seat Suspension with Unknown Passenger Mass

Abstract

The vibration of the car seat can affect the comfort of passengers and can even cause some health hazards to them. In this paper, a vehicle seat control system is built to reduce the hazards of vehicle seat vibration. Firstly, the dynamic of the vehicle seat suspension is modelled. Then, an adaptive robust vibration control method is introduced: a base controller with an enhanced Youla parameterization is designed to turn it into a global stable controller set, followed by online tuning of the Q-parameters using an adaptive algorithm. The results of the vehicle seat vibration control were simulated in MATLAB/Simulink.