Modelling and characteristics of hybrid coupling hydro-pneumatic suspension for a seven-axle vehicle

Abstract

A hybrid coupling scheme of parallel connection and contralateral cross-linking was proposed based on the characteristics of high centroid position and low rollover threshold on hydro-pneumatic suspension (HPS) for a seven-axle elevated platform vehicle. A dynamic model with 20 DOFs which can comprehensively reflect vehicle coupling vibration including vertical-lateral-longitudinal-transverse and the joint simulation model of Simulink and AMESim were established based on the structural characteristics of the vehicle. Furthermore, the random road surface model linking the wheels was constructed by filter shaping white noise. Based on the model of hybrid coupling HPS, the study of joint simulation and test on the whole vehicle were conducted, and improved ant colony algorithm (IACA) was applied to the multi-objective optimisation study of HPS parameter matching. The comparison between simulation and test data shows that the weighted acceleration PSD curve is in good agreement, and the relative error of weighted acceleration RMS is small, which indicated that the theoretical model was accurate. The results of simulation and testing show that the optimal parameter matching scheme output by IACA can improve vehicle ride comfort and stability to a significant extent.