April 2011 Product presentation

SOBEN
Soben is a specialized automotive and aircraft high performance damper supplier

Quarter-car scale test bench

For vehicle dynamics studies, damper testing and optimization
Double wishbone strutDoppelquerlenker Bauart
Presentation This passive or semi-active quarter car scale model is a demonstrator allowing designers and students to quickly test, implement, and develop various kinds of control strategies, for car dynamics performance studies, allowing comfort and road-holding improvement. Electronic suspension optimization is one of the main challenges in current day automotive issues. This practical workstation has been built to allow designers to control various parameters of the system to improve the comfort and road-handling of the car. This also gives students the opportunity to discover this industrial applications and put into practice various skills at the same time, such as data processing, control systems, real-time embedded systems, and computer sciences. The main objective of the control system developed is to improve the comfort and road-handling of the vehicle by controlling the damper in real-time. Dissected view
Linear motor
Bandwidth 0-20 Hz Max velocity 1.5 m/s Power supply: 230 V Max force: 600 N Stroke: 10 cm

Functionnalities Car dynamics performance studies for comfort and road-holding improvement, Time-domain and frequency-domain open-loop and closed-loop behavior analysis, Robustness analysis: parametric uncertainties, measurement noise, unknown disturbance, Real-time application using an industrial programmable controller configuration, Industrial suspension performance specification, Suspension modeling and analysis, Nonlinear damper identification, Data processing (analog and numerical filters design), User defined continuous and discrete time controller design (state space-representation), Observer design.

Suspension force sensor Sprung mass: 3.5 kg

Full scale: +/- 200N Strain gauges sensor Bandwidth: 1 kHz

Sprung mass accelerometer

Full scale: +/- 5 g Bandwidth: 200 Hz Capacitive sensor

Motor position sensor

Stroke: 0-200 mm Potentiometric position sensor

Suspension deflection sensor

Stroke: 0-100 mm Potentiometric position sensor

Unsprung mass accelerometer

Full scale: +/- 20 g Bandwidth: 200 Hz Capacitive sensor

Sprung mass position sensor

Stroke: 0-250 mm Potentiometric position sensor

Unsprung mass: 0.9 kg Wheel Tire Arm Programmable controller

CPU32 8 analog inputs Memory: 160 K words

PC User friendly interface Semi-active damper (optional)

Electro-rheological damper Damping rate 20 to 200 Ns/m Response time (95 %) <5 ms Operating cycles selection Recorded variables selection Interface in english or french

Ethernet link

Servodriver
Motor controlDriven by the the programmable controller SOBEN S.A.S. - Capital 175 866 - Siret 481 885 374 00043 VAT : FR 47 481 885 374 Registration address: Ple Mcanique dAls Vallon de Fontanes 30520 St Martin de Valgalgues - FRANCE

Engineering and sales office: Village Artisanal de Regourd, 46000 Cahors - FRANCE - Tel/fax +33 5 65 35 61 22

www.soben.fr

April 2011 Product presentation

SOBEN
Soben is a specialized automotive and aircraft high performance damper supplier

Quarter-car scale test bench

For vehicle dynamics studies, damper testing and optimization
Double wishbone strutDoppelquerlenker Bauart
System description The proposed system is made of two masses in vertical translation. The upper mass represents the sprung mass (vehicle body, seats, passengers,), whereas the lower mass is the wheel, braking system, suspension arm.... These two masses are linked by a suspension made of a spring and passive damper or semi-active -controllable hydraulic damper-. The scale model also includes various sensors required to control the damper and analyze the achieved performances. The ground vibrations are simulated by a linear brushless motor driven by a programmable controller. A graphical interface allows the user to adjust the ground disturbances parameters, save the measured variables, and specify the parameters of the control strategies. Quarter-car model principle

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The quarter-car can be simply modeled by two masses linked to each other by a linear suspension made of a spring and a damper, providing respectively a force proportional to the deflection of the suspension, and proportional to the deflection velocity. The tire can also be modeled by a linear stiffness by neglecting its non-linearities. This simple model can be used to design controllers, by determining directly the most appropriate damping rate c or to study the influence of the various parameters on the behavior of the vehicle.

Features Fully documented system models and parameters, Complete student and teacher help book, Accurate and reliable position, acceleration, and force sensors, High resolution acquisition cards, Easy to use human-machine interface, Adjustable masses and suspension stiffness, High performance semi-active damper, Protection box for safe operation, protection circuit, High performance linear brushless motor, Technical specifications
Device specifications
Sprung and unsprung masses [kg] Suspension and tire stiffnesses [N/m] Suspension damping rate [Ns/m] Weight [Kg] Power supply [V] Linear motor and damper bandwidth [Hz] Motor vertical range of motion [m]

Open architecture allowing control strategies, experiments, and human-machine interface to be customized, Matlab compatible experiment data files, User-friendly programmable controller, interface fast debugging tools, Programmable controller equipped with Ethernet for PC communication.

3.5 and 0.9 1800 and 3000 20 to 320 110 230V > 20 and > 100 0.1

SOBEN S.A.S. - Capital 175 866 - Siret 481 885 374 00043 VAT : FR 47 481 885 374 Registration address: Ple Mcanique dAls Vallon de Fontanes 30520 St Martin de Valgalgues - FRANCE

Engineering and sales office: Village Artisanal de Regourd, 46000 Cahors - FRANCE - Tel/fax +33 5 65 35 61 22

www.soben.fr