Advanced control methods applied to rail vehicle systems

摘要

This paper proposes various robust control design methods for active rail vehicle guidance control. As the first step an observer based H{sub}∞ state-feedback control of a wheelset system is designed. After that the effect of parameter uncertainties on the self sensing control of a nonlinear rail wheelset system is investigated and a new controller is designed by including the modeling of parameter uncertainties. In the last example for the handling of track curvature changes a new concept the so called active steering bogie control is introduced. The simulation results are satisfactory and in good agreement with previous results.