Published: 19 October 2019

Improving ride comfort for vibratory roller utilizing semi-active hydraulic cab mounts with control optimization

Renqiang Jiao1
Vanliem Nguyen2
1, 2School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hubei Polytechnic University, Huangshi, 435003, China
Corresponding Author:
Vanliem Nguyen
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Abstract

Hydraulic mounts can provide a better vibration attenuation performance than elastomeric mounts especially in the low frequency range. However, it is incapable of providing a response-dependent damper for the mount system to improve the ride comfort. In this study, a semi-active hydraulic cab mount (SHM) with control optimization was designed to improve ride comfort for the heavy vibratory roller. And a 7-DOF non-linear dynamic model of the vehicle was established for evaluation of the performance of hydraulic cab mounts based on different control optimization algorithms. To simulate roughness height the ISO level D road surface and deformed soil model were employed under the compaction work condition. The optimization study for two performance objectives as measured by responses of the vertical driver’s seat and cab pitch angle was carried out. It was shown that the SHM optimized by the fuzzy logic and proportional, integral, derivative controller methods (FLC-PID) giving best optimum values of the objective vector as compare to by multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) and PID controller based on genetic algorithm (GA-PID).

1. Introduction

The cab isolation mounts performance of the vibratory roller is an important factor affecting the reliability of the roller, the comfort of operation, the noise level and the service life of the components. Therefore, improving the performance of the vibration isolation mounts system of the vibratory roller has an important role in improving the performance of the vibratory roller.

The design parameters of cab rubber mounts on the single drum vibratory roller ride comfort was analyzed by Ario Kordestani et al. [1]. Vibration analysis and improve the cab rubber mounts of vibratory roller via three cab’s isolation mounts including rubber, hydraulic, and pneumatic mounts to increase the ride comfort was studied [2]. The research results show that vibratory roller’s ride comfort is significantly increased by the hydraulic mounts (HM). Whereas, the ride comfort of the cab is still poor in condition of the vehicle moves.

In addition, the HM was also studied and applied for engine isolation system [3, 4], and semi-active hydraulic engine mounts were developed by Min Wang et al. [5]. In order to improve the harshness of construction equipment and industrial vehicles, the HM were used for cab mounts [6, 7]. The low frequency performance of vibratory roller cab with HM was studied [2]. However, this study only considers the passive cab isolation mounts. Nowadays, the control optimization methods such as multi-objective optimization [8], FLC-PID control [9], FLC-Hinf, MR Fluid damper and Skyhook-NFLC control [10, 11] are applied to adjust the damping coefficient for the semi-active suspension system or active suspension system of vehicles and seat. It was shown that mounts with control optimization can significantly enhance the ride comfort compared with the passive.

In this study, a non-linear dynamic model of the vibratory roller cab with the HM [2] is established based on Matlab/Simulink software. The control optimization methods as the multi-objective genetic algorithm, GA-PID controller, and FLC-PID controller are applied to optimize and control the cab hydraulic mounts under different operation conditions.

2. Materials and methods

2.1. Vibratory roller model

As shown in Fig. 1. The non-linear dynamic model of a single drum vibratory roller with 7-DOF is developed. zs, zc, zff, zfr and zd represent the vertical displacements of the seat, the cab, the frame-front, the frame-rear and roller drum, respectively. ϕc, ϕfr represent the angular displacements of the cab and the frame-rear; ms, mc, mff, mfr and md are the mass of the driver’s seat, cab, frame-front, frame-rear and roller drum, respectively; u represent the semi-active damping force of hydraulic mounts. Fs, Fci, Fd and Ft represent the dynamic reaction forces in the vertical direction of seat suspension, cab mounts, roller drum mount and tire, respectively; qd and qt are the excitations of the road surface. lm is the distances of the vibratory roller, (i= 1, 2; m= 1, 2, ..., 8). The equation of the dynamic reaction force of driver’s seat suspension is given by:

1
Fs=csz˙c+l8ϕ˙c-z˙s+kszc+l8ϕc-zs.

The equations of the dynamic reaction forces of cab isolation mounts in Fig. 1(b) are given by:

2
Fci=krizi+criz˙i+fci,

with:

3
fci=chiz˙iz˙i, with hydraulic mounts (HM)ui, with semi-active hydraulic mounts SHM,

where fci is the damping force of HM; ks, kri represent the stiffness coefficients and cs, cri represent damping coefficients of seat suspension and the rubber of HM, respectively.

Fig. 1Vibratory roller dynamic model

Vibratory roller dynamic model

a) 7-DOF dynamic model

Vibratory roller dynamic model

b) Model of cab mount

The relative displacements and velocities of HM are given by:

4
zi=zb-li+3ϕb-zc+-1i+1li+5ϕc.

The force equations of the roller drum (Fd) and the tire (Ft) are derived in Section 3. The general dynamic differential equation for the vibratory roller is given as follow:

5
msz¨s=Fs,mcz¨c=Fs-Fc1-Fc2,Icϕc=Fsl8+Fc1l6-Fc2l7,mfrz¨fr=Fc1+Fc2-Ft-Fd,Ifrϕ¨fr=Fdl2+Md-Ftl3-Fc1l4-Fc2l5,mffzff=Fd.

2.2. The vibration excitations of the vehicle dynamic model

In this study, the elastoplastic soil ground model of Adam D. and Kopf. F. [13] is chosen to establish the drum-deformed soil contact relation. In a cycle of the drum-deformed soil contact, there exist two or more often three distinct phases. The specific expression of motion can be referred to our previously published literature [2].

3. The control optimization methods

3.1. The optimal hydraulic mounts (OHM) based on the genetic algorithm

Multi-objective genetic algorithms (GA) are optimization method based on principles of natural selection. GA is defined as find a vector of decision variables satisfying constraints to give admissible to all objective functions [8], it can be written as:

Find the vector x=x1,x2,,xnT to optimize:

6
Fx=f1x,f2x,...,fnxT.

Subject to gix 0, i= 1 to p; hjx= 0, j= 1 to q.

Fx is objective functions, gix is inequality constraints, hix is equality constraints. According to the algorithm of GA [14], the structure flowchart of a genetic algorithm is shown in Fig. 2(a):

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s.t.x=kri,cri,chiT,1.2×105kri9.1×105,29cri500,4.5×103kri25×103,
minF(x)=[awzs,awϕc]T,

where awzs is the weight r.m.s. acceleration responses of the driver’s seat and awϕc is the weight r.m.s. acceleration responses of the cab pitch angle.

3.2. Design of PID controller for SHM optimized by genetic algorithm (SHM with GA-PID)

The proportional integral derivate (PID) controller is wide used in industrial process control as a result of simple structure and robust performance. The transfer function of PID can be written by:

8
ut=Kpet+Ki0tetdt+Kde˙dt,

where Kp, Ki and Kd are the proportional, integral and derivative parameters, respectively.

The choose of PID parameters is significant effect the performance of PID controller [15], therefore, GA and fuzzy logic control rules are applied to calculate the optimal proportionality factors, respectively Kp', Ki' and Kd' as follows:

9
Kj'=Kj-KjminKjmax-Kjmin=Kj-KjminΔKj,

where the variable ranges of PID’s parameters are [Kjmin-Kjmax]; subscript j denotes p, i and d, respectively:

10
s.t.x=Kpn',Kin',Kdn'T,1850Kpn'10500,100Kin'8500,0.1Kdn'100, n=1,2.

In order to find the optimal proportionality factors of Kj', the variable ranges in Eq. (10) are also chosen optimally based on two objective functions in Eq. (7).

3.3. Design of PID controller for SHM based on fuzzy logic control rules (SHM with FLC-PID)

In this study, the relative displacement and relative velocity in Eq. (4), Eq. (5) of the cab isolation mount are considered as two input variables and they are denoted by E and EC, while the proportionality factors Kd', Kp', Ki' and are the output values, and the FLC-PID controller model shows in Fig. 2(b). The input and output linguistic variables are defined as positive big (PB), positive small (PS), zero (ZO), negative small (NS) and negative big (NB). The membership functions described by fuzzy set is the Triangular function and their values in the range of 0 and 1, both input and output values are in the [–3, 3] range.

Fig. 2The optimal control model

The optimal control model

a) The flowchart of GA

The optimal control model

b) The FLC-PID controller

Table 1The fuzzy control rules

E
Kp'
Ki'
Kd'
EC
NB
NS
ZO
PS
PB
NB
NS
ZO
PS
PB
NB
NS
ZO
PS
PB
NB
PB
PB
PS
ZO
ZO
NB
NB
NS
NS
ZO
PS
PS
ZO
ZO
PB
NS
PB
PS
PS
ZO
NS
NB
NS
NS
ZO
ZO
NB
NS
NS
ZO
PS
ZO
PS
PS
ZO
NS
NS
NS
NS
ZO
PS
PS
NB
NB
NS
ZO
PS
PS
PS
ZO
NS
NS
NB
ZO
ZO
PS
PS
PB
NB
NS
NS
ZO
PS
PB
ZO
ZO
NS
NB
NB
ZO
NS
NS
NB
PB
PS
ZO
ZO
ZO
PB

In this fuzzy controller, there are up to 25 rules, shown in Table 1, has the following expression:

1. if E = NB and EC = NB then Kp'= PB, Ki'= NB and Kd'= PS;

2. if E = NB and EC = NS then Kp'= PB, Ki'= NB and Kd'= NB;

25. if E = PB and EC = PB then Kp'= NB, Ki'= PB and Kd'= PB.

4. Simulation analysis

The weight r.m.s. acceleration value (awz) and parameters of a vibratory roller in the reference [2] are used to evaluate the results. The results of the seat and cab pitch angle are shown in Fig. 3(a) and 3(b). It is shown that the as and aϕc values with the control optimization methods reduced vibration and improved the cab’s ride comfort are very obvious. Besides, both as and aϕc of SHM with FLC-PID also decreased compared with OHM and SHM with GA-PID.

Fig. 3The accelerations of seat and cab pitch angle

The accelerations of seat and cab pitch angle
The accelerations of seat and cab pitch angle
The accelerations of seat and cab pitch angle

a) Low-frequency excitation of the drum (f= 28 Hz)

The accelerations of seat and cab pitch angle

b) High-frequency excitation of the drum (f= 35 Hz)

The accelerations of seat and cab pitch angle

Table 2Performance of different mounts when vehicle compacts and moves

Values
HM
OHM
GA-PID
FLC-PID
FLC-PID versus HM
f= 28 Hz
awzs (m/s2)
0.51
0.45
0.40
0.36
29.41 %
awϕc (rad/s2)
0.95
0.83
0.68
0.51
46.32 %
f= 35 Hz
awzs (m/s2)
0.48
0.42
0.38
0.32
33.33 %
awϕc (rad/s2)
0.88
0.72
0.63
0.43
51.14 %

Table 2 shows that the awzs and awϕc values with control optimization methods are all decreased compared with hydraulic mounts. When semi-active hydraulic cab mounts are controlled with the FLC-PID controller, the control results show that the awzs and awϕc values are greatly reduced by 29.41 % and 46.32 % when vibrating drum compacts at low-frequency excitation and reduced by 33.33 % and 51.14 % at high-frequency excitation. Moreover, the study results also show that awzs and awϕc values are significantly reduced when vibrating drum compacts at high-frequency excitation, it implies that the cab ride comfort is better when vibrating drum compacts at high-frequency excitation.

5. Conclusions

It was shown that the SHM optimized by the fuzzy logic and proportional, integral, derivative controller methods (FLC-PID) giving best optimum values of the objective vector as compare to by multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) and PID controller based on genetic algorithm (GA-PID). Under the working condition of compaction, awzs and awϕc values of SHM with FLC-PID significantly decreased by 29.41 % and 46.32 % at low-frequency excitation 28 Hz and reduced by 33.33 % and 51.14 % at high-frequency excitation 35 Hz.

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About this article

Received
06 September 2019
Accepted
20 September 2019
Published
19 October 2019
SUBJECTS
Vibration in transportation engineering
Keywords
vibratory roller
hydraulic mount
genetic algorithm
FLC-PID controller
Acknowledgements

This work is funded by Science and Technology Support Planning of Jiangsu Province (No. BE201433), Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Project of Nanjing (No. 201701213) and Talent Introduction Fund Project of Hubei Polytechnic University (Nos. 17xjz03R, 19xjk17R).