Controlling a Rail Vehicle with Independently-Rotating Wheels
A conventional rail vehicle has a purely mechanical suspension consisting of springs and dampers. Their performance is determined mainly by spring stiffnesses, damper coefficients and the sprung and unsprung masses. As a result, the guidance forces generated at the wheel-rail contact are not optimised for a particular track curvature or profile. This leads to a contradictory requirement for a stiff suspension for guidance and a softer suspension for steering, and conventional vehicles have to be designed for a wide range of operating regimes. Active suspensions to influence the running gear of a rail vehicle have been studied widely and proposed as a solution to overcoming the inherent suspension design conflict between stability and guidance. Some of this research has suggested that an active vehicle with independently-rotating wheels (IRWs) will provide the best solution in terms of vehicle performance and lower actuation requirements. This paper takes this research further by designing and implementing a robust controller for IRWs on a multi-body physics simulation (MBS) model of a British Rail Class 230 D-train with modified bogies.
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Authors:
- Farhat, Nabilah
- Ward, Christopher
- Shaebi, Omar
- Crosbee, David
- Stow, Julian
- Wang, Ruichen
- Goodall, Roger
- Whitley, Martin
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Conference:
- 26th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD 2019)
- Location: Gothenburg , Sweden
- Date: 2019-8-12 to 2019-8-16
- Publication Date: 2020-2
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 31-39
- Monograph Title: Advances in Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics, IAVSD 2019, August 12-16, 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Serial:
- Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- ISSN: 2195-4356
- EISSN: 2195-4364
- Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/bookseries/11236
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic train control; Car trucks (Railroads); Railroad wheels; Rolling contact; Suspension systems
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;
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- Accession Number: 01900558
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9783030380762
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 28 2023 10:25AM