HIL simulation of high-speed train active stability employing active inertial actuators

ABSTRACT

To enhance the lateral stability of a certain type of high-speed train under bogie’s active control, characteristics of inertial actuators that generate control force in the active control system are studied, the control delay of the whole Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) system is measured, and multi-objective optimisation for feedback parameters with or without the control delay is achieved in this study. A linear model of bogie lateral dynamics, with two inertial actuators, acting on the front and rear end beams, is established for the optimisation. Correspondingly, a nonlinear vehicle model is established in the Simpack platform for both mathematical simulation and HIL simulation to verify the control effects. As the force source of active control, dynamic characteristics of the inertial actuator with different control strategies are examined. Multi-objective optimal control is carried out on the linear active bogie models with and without the delay measured in the experiment to improve the bogie hunting stability. The control method is then evaluated in a nonlinear vehicle model and HIL simulation. Simulation results show that the lateral dynamic performance of the high-speed train can be effectively improved with the active stability system even with a large time delay.

KEYWORDS:

• High-speed train
• multi-objective optimisation
• active control
• time delay
• HIL simulation

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Funding

The material in this paper is based on work supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province (2022NSFSC0034, 2022NSFSC1901) and National Railway Group Science and Technology Program grant (N2020J028) and Traction Power State Key Laboratory grant (2022TPL_T02, TPL2006) of the Independent Research and Development Projects.