Lab 7

Modeling and Simulation of Car Suspension

System
Haroon Raza(RP21-EE-401)
Anees Sohail (RP21-EE-419)
Nabeel Shaukat(RP21-EE-434)
Hammad Sajid(RP21-EE-432)
Email: aneessohail31d@gmail.com
IEECE, University of The Punjab, Lahore

Abstract
This lab aims to study how focusing on ride comfort
a car's suspension system measured by body
responds and how PID displacement. Simulations
control can improve its using Matlab Simulink
performance. The model show how PID control
helps understand body enhances body and wheel
displacement and displacement on various
acceleration. We evaluate road surfaces.
suspension performance,
Keywords
 Car
Suspension
 PID controller
 Stability

Introduction
Car suspension systems and shocks, while others
make your ride smooth by have fancy controls to make
absorbing bumps on the the ride even smoother
road. Some cars have while keeping the car
simple setups with springs
steady.
Mathematical Modeling

Mb=Mass of car body=2500Kg

Mw=Mass of wheel=320Kg
Xb= displacement of car body
Xw=displacement of wheel Kb=spring constant between body
and wheel=80000 N/m Kw=spring constant between wheel and
road=500000 N/m
Cb=damping body and wheel

Transfer function of give system is as follow

To model in time domain wo find the

equation of 𝑋𝑏′′ and Xw′′

Certainly, here's the equation in a format that you can copy:

xb'' = -(b1/m1)* xb' - (k1/m1) * xb + (b1/m1) * xw'' + (k1/m1) * xwAnd

similarly, equation for xw is given as follow.

xw”=-(b1/m1)*xw’ + (k1+k2)/m2*(xw)+
(b1/m2)*xb’+(k1/m2)*xb+(k2/m2)*zr

Using above equation in matlab Simulink we obtain xb and

xw by using integrator block as follow
 Xb’’ 1 Xb’ 1 Xb
𝑠 𝑠

1 1 Xw
Xw’’ Xw’
𝑠 𝑠

Zr
Transfer Xb
Function

Subsystem Xb
mathematical Xw
model passive
system

Subsystem active Xb
Above block will give ussuspension
distance of body of car and wheel
PID Xw
when there is disturbance in road and as body of car move
system
while facing the disturbance the passenger also cover some
distance ie some trouble

Zr represents road disturbances, modeled as a sine wave. The

middle box has integrator gain, adder, and subtracter. The
third block, with a PID controller, uses proportional control to
reduce rise time and derivative control to improve transient
response.

Simulation:
 Passive
Subsystem

Output of Passive Subsystem

Input
Output with PID controller:

Pid Controller Parameter:

Parameter value
Kp 1
Ki 1.3
Kd 1.9

Conclusion:
This lab
focuses on
a control
strategy
for a car's
suspensio
n system.
We look
at body
displacem
ent, which
tells us
how
comfortab
le the ride
is for
passenger
s, and
wheel
displacem
ent, which
shows
how well
the
vehicle
handles.
We notice
that using
PID
control
can
decrease
the output
intensity,
although it
might take
longer for
the system
to
stabilize.
Once we
figure out
the
parameter
s, we can
apply this
control
setup to a
real
quarter-
car
suspensio
n system.

Refe
renc
e:

Nor
man
S.Ni
se,
Con
trol
Syst
em
Engineering 4th Edition
Dr Umar Farooq Lecture Notes