An ABC Optimized Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control Strategy for Full Vehicle Active Suspension System

Abstract

This work presents a Fuzzy based adaptive Sliding Mode Control scheme to deal with the control problem of full vehicle active suspension system and take into consideration the nonlinearities of the spring and damper, unmodeled dynamics as well as external disturbances. The control law of fuzzy-based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control scheme will update the parameters of fuzzy sliding mode control by using the stability analysis of Lyapunov criteria such that the convergence infinite time and the stability of the closed-loop is ensured. The proposed control scheme consists of four similar subsystems used for the four sides of the vehicle. The sub-control scheme contains two loops, the outer loop is built using a sliding mode controller with a fuzzy estimator to approximate and estimate the unknown parameters in the system. In the inner loop, a controller of type Fractional Order PID (FOPID) is utilized to create the required actuator force. All parameters in the four sub-control schemes are optimized utilizing Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm in order to improve the performance. The results indicate the effectiveness and good achievement of the proposed controller in providing the best ability to limit the vibration with good robustness properties in comparison with passive suspension system and using sliding mode control method. The controlled suspension system shows excellent results when it was tested with and without typical breaking and bending torques.