The combination of dynamic vibration absorber and partial state feedback with time-delay is called delayed resonator. In order to suppress the seat vibration caused by uneven road surface and improve ride comfort, the delayed resonator is applied to the seat suspension to realize active control of the seat suspension system. The dynamic model of the half-vehicle suspension system is established, and the time-delay differential equation of the system under external excitation is solved by the precise integration method. The root mean square of the time-domain vibration response of seat displacement, seat acceleration and vehicle acceleration are selected as the objective function. Then, the optimal time-delay control parameters are obtained by particle swarm optimization algorithm. The frequency sweeping method is used to obtain the critical time-delay value and time-delay stable interval of the system. Finally, an active seat suspension model with delayed resonator is established for numerical simulation. The results show that the delayed resonator can greatly suppress the seat vibration response regardless of the road simple harmonic excitation or random excitation. Compared with dynamic vibration absorber, it has a better vibration absorption effect and a wider vibration reduction frequency band.

A 2-DOF vehicle active suspension system model with time-delay feedback control is established. The stability region of the time-delay active suspension system is obtained by using the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion and polynomial discriminant theory. The multi-objective optimization function is established taking into account vehicle ride comfort, driving safety, and handling stability, and the optimal feedback parameters are obtained by the particle swarm optimization(PSO) algorithm. The vibration characteristics of active suspension systems with time-delay under different road excitations are studied through experiments and simulations and then compared with passive uncontrolled suspension and active suspension based on LQR. The experimental results show that the sprung mass acceleration(SMA) of the active suspension system with optimal time-delay feedback control under harmonic excitation is reduced by 58.02% and 39.18% compared to the passive suspension system and the LQR active suspension system, respectively. Meanwhile, the sprung mass acceleration of the active suspension system with optimal time-delay feedback control under random excitation has a 69.56% and 35.50% reduction compared to the passive suspension system and the LQR active suspension system, respectively. The performance of active suspension controlled by time-delay feedback is better than that of passive suspension and LQR active suspension in numerical study and experiment. Moreover, the experimental and simulation results show a good consistency, which proves the reliability of the experimental results.

Time-delay feedback control can effectively broaden the damping frequency band and improve the damping efficiency. However, the existing time-delay feedback control strategy has no obvious effect on multi-frequency random excitation vibration reduction control. That is, when the frequency of external excitation is more complicated, there is no better way to obtain the best time-delay feedback control parameters. To overcome this issue, this paper is the first work of proposing an optimal calculation method that introduces stochastic excitation into the process of solving the delay feedback control parameters. It is a time-delay control parameter with a better damping effect for random excitation. In this paper, a 2 DOF one-quarter vehicle suspension model with time-delay is studied. First, the stability interval of time-delay feedback control parameters is solved by using the Lyapunov stability theory. Second, the optimal control parameters of the time-delay feedback control under random excitation are solved by particle swarm optimization (PSO). Finally, the simulation models of a one-quarter vehicle suspension simulation model are established. Random excitation and harmonic excitation are used as inputs. The response of the vehicle body under the frequency domain damping control method and the proposed control method is compared and simulated. To make the control precision higher and the solution speed faster, this paper simulates the model by using the precise integration method of transient history. The simulation results show that the acceleration of the vehicle body in the proposed control method is 13.05% less than the passive vibration absorber under random excitation. Compared with the time-delay feedback control optimized by frequency response function, the damping effect is 12.99%. The results show that the vibration displacement, vibration velocity, and vibration acceleration of the vehicle body are better than the frequency domain function optimization method, whether it is harmonic excitation or random excitation. The ride comfort of the vehicle is improved obviously. It provides a valuable tool for time-delay vibration reduction control under random excitation.

Vehicles driving on the road continuously suffer low-frequency and high-intensity road excitation, which can cause the occupant feelings of tension and dizziness. To solve this problem, a three-degree-of-freedom vehicle suspension system model including vehicle seat is established and a linear function equivalent excitation method is proposed. The optimization of the random excitation is transformed into the optimization of constant force in a discrete time interval, which introduces the adaptive weighted particle swarm optimization algorithm to optimize the delay and feedback gain parameters in the feedback control of time delay. In this paper, the stability switching theory is used for the first time to analyze the stability interval of 3-DOF time-delay controlled active suspension, which ensures the stability of the control system. The numerical simulation results show that the algorithm can reduce vertical passenger acceleration and vehicle acceleration, respectively, by 13.63% and 28.38% on average, and 29.99% and 47.23% on random excitation, compared with active suspension and passive suspension based on inverse control. The effectiveness of the method to suppress road random interference is verified, which provides a theoretical reference for further study of suspension performance optimization with time-delay control.

In this paper, the mechanical model of two-degree-of-freedom vehicle semi-active suspension system based on time-delayed feedback control with vertical acceleration of the vehicle body was studied. With frequency-domain analysis method, the optimization of time-delayed feedback control parameters of vehicle suspension system in effective frequency band was studied, and a set of optimization method of time-delayed feedback control parameters based on “equivalent harmonic excitation” was proposed. The time-domain simulation results of vehicle suspension system show that compared with the passive control, the time-delayed feedback control based on the vertical acceleration of the vehicle body under the optimal time-delayed feedback control effectively broadens the vibration absorption bandwidth of the vehicle suspension system. The ride comfort and stability of the vehicle under random road excitation are significantly improved, which provides a theoretical basis for the selection of time-delayed feedback control strategy and the optimal design of time-delayed feedback control parameters of vehicle suspension system.