Application of nonlinear energy sink in suppressing wheel shimmy for advanced vehicle chassis design under independent wheel subsystems

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Proper suppression of shimmy in the independent wheel subsystems would significantly improve the performance of the steer-by-wire control. In this paper, a wheel shimmy suppression method using a nonlinear energy sink is proposed. Compared with traditional methods of increasing steering damping, NES seldom interferes with the designed steering dynamics of the vehicle due to its particularly small mass and volume, thus reserving availability for in-service or after-designed vehicles. By installing NES in the wheel frame, a single towed wheel model with NES is constructed. Although NES has almost no effect on the linear stability characteristics, an excellent effect on suppressing vibration amplitudes is explored where over 90% oscillation amplitude of shimmy is mitigated by NES within a wide range of reasonable parameters. Global optimization for optimal NES set-up in unstable speed ranges is further proposed to handle the speed-dependent nature of shimmy, and the result highlights its effectiveness and parameter robustness. Integration of the single-wheel model into the full vehicle with independent steering structures summarizes that NES could be a favorable way to both suppress the existing shimmy phenomenon and control the coupled lateral oscillations of the vehicle body. Wheel shimmy self-excited vibrations nonlinear energy sink vibration suppression parametric optimization Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 18 Jun, 2024 Read the published version in Nonlinear Dynamics → Version 1 posted Editorial decision: Revision requested 05 Apr, 2024 Reviews received at journal 17 Mar, 2024 Reviewers agreed at journal 06 Mar, 2024 Reviewers agreed at journal 06 Mar, 2024 Reviewers invited by journal 05 Mar, 2024 Editor assigned by journal 28 Feb, 2024 Submission checks completed at journal 26 Feb, 2024 First submitted to journal 18 Feb, 2024 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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