Survey and performance evaluation on some automotive semi-active suspension control methods: A comparative study on a single-corner model

In this paper, an overview and a benchmark of some semi-active suspension control strategy performances is proposed. Based on a recent result of the authors, where the optimal semi-active performance trade-off was addressed, here a complete benchmark to evaluate any controlled semi-active suspension is proposed, and applied to different control approaches. This paper aims at providing a picture - as complete as possible - of the present state of the art in the semi-active suspension control field in terms of comfort and road-holding performance evaluation and trade-off. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.