Development of Hierarchical Control Logic for Two-Channel Hydraulic Active Roll Control System

Abstract

In this paper, a hierarchical control logic for two-channel hydraulic active roll control (ARC) system, which includes vehicle level control and actuator level control is proposed. Vehicle level control consists of antiroll torque controller and antiroll torque distributor. The antiroll torque controller is designed with “PID + feedforward” algorithm to calculate the total antiroll moment. The antiroll torque distributor is devised based on fuzzy control method to implement an antiroll moment allocation between the front and rear stabilizer bar. Actuator level control is designed based on pressure and displacement, respectively. The contrastive analysis of the two proposed actuator control method is presented. The hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test platform is proposed to evaluate the performance of the devised control algorithm. The HIL simulation result illustrates that actuator displacement control could generate a relatively accurate antiroll moment, and the vehicle roll stability, yaw stability can be enhanced by the proposed ARC control method.