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KSME International Journal, VoL 13, No. 10, pp. 667 - 676, 1999 667 A Road-Adaptive Control Law for Semi-Active Suspensions Youngjoo Chn, Byung Suk Song** and Kyongsu Yi* Received July 24, 1998 This paper presents a road-adaptive control law for semi-active vehicle suspensions. In semi- active suspensions, damping coefficients are controlled so as to make the actual damper force as close to the desired damper force as possible at any time instance. The proposed control law consists of a road-adaptive sky-hook damping algorithm and a Road Detection Algorithm RDA _This approach leads to the sprung mass and unsprung mass velocity feedback control law with time varying gains. The gains are tuned by the RDA. To evaluate the performance enhancement brought about by the proposed control law, the performance of a semi-active suspension with the proposed control law is compared to those of the sky-hook controlled semi- active suspension and a passive suspension. The controller has been implemented experimentally on a quarter car test rig and a semi-active damper with a 19 damping rates has been used to generate the desired semi-active force. The proposed control law provides adequate damping for the wheel hop frequency and improved performance compared to that of the sky-hook control law. Key Words: Semi-Active Suspensions, Sky-hook Damping, Control, Road Adaptive, Distur- bance, Ride Quality well recognized that a semi-active suspension 1. Introduction combines the advantages of both active and pas- sive suspensions, i. e., it provides good perfor- Active and semi-active suspensions for ground mance compared to passive suspensions, and is vehicles have been a very active subject of economical, safe, and does not require either research for a long time due to their potential