Tilting control of railway vehicle using electric actuators

Issue title: Proceedings of the tenth International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics ISEM-Tokyo

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Yoshida, Hidehisa^{a; *} | Nagai, Masao^a

Affiliations: [a] Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei-shi, 184-8588 Tokyo, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Hidehisa Yoshida, Fax: +81 42 385 7204; E-mail: hyoshida@cc.tuat.ac.jp

Abstract: When a railway vehicle passes through a curve, reducing the lateral acceleration affecting its passengers is important in order to improve the ride comfort. Tilting control by feedback, which can maintain the vehicle inclination close to a desired value, is examined in this paper; reduction of car body vibration is also anticipated with this control. Specifically, the curvature is obtained by collecting data in real time from the car body traveling through a curve, and this information is utilized in the proposed tilting control method. The effects of the control scheme are verified by computer simulation using a dynamic model and experiment with model equipment.

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-2002-516

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 13, no. 1-4, pp. 137-144, 2002