118 Magnetorheological Fluid Technology: Applications in Vehicle Systems
The HILS is divided into three parts: interface, hardware, and software. The
interface part is composed of a computer on which DSP board is mounted.
The hardware part is composed of the MR damper, current amplier, and
hydraulic damper tester (hydraulic power unit). The software part consists
of the theoretical model for the full-vehicle MR suspension system and con-
trol algorithm programmed in the computer. As a rst step, the computer
simulation for the full vehicle MR suspension system is performed with an
initial value. This computer simulation is incorporated with the hydraulic
damper tester, which applies the displacement (suspension travel) to the MR
damper accor ...