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Development of an active-controlled damper for railway vehicle couplers for improving the ride comfort

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17560201
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Dynamics/Control
Research InstitutionMaebashi Institute of Technology (2006)
Tohoku University (2005)

Principal Investigator

WANG Feng  Maebashi Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Associate Professor, 工学部, 准教授 (80323046)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) CHONAN Seiji  Akita Prefectural University, Dept. of Machine Intelligence and System Engineering, Professor, システム科学技術学部, 教授 (20005424)
INOOKA Hikaru  Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering, Emeritus Professor, 大学院工学研究科, 名誉教授 (20006191)
TANAKA Mami  Tohoku University, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor, 大学院工学研究科, 准教授 (80271873)
Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2006
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
KeywordsStructure / Functional Material / Mechanics / Control / Modeling / Ride Comfort / Fluid / Transportation / 能動制御 / 緩衝器
Research Abstract

In this project, an active-controlled damper for railway vehicle couplers was developed in order to improve the ride comfort of the passenger railway trains. The research results were summarized as :
a) Acceleration of railway passenger trains during the starting-up and the stopping was collected. A real time filter for calculation the jerk from the acceleration was constructed. Relationship between ride comfort and acceleration/jerk was investigated. The results show that the root-mean-square of both acceleration and jerk affect the ride comfort of passengers.
b) Based on the theoretical analysis of the fluid dynamics of the Electrorheological (ER) fluid, a prototype of an active controlled ER damper consisting of a hydraulic cylinder and a bypass slit valve was developed. The fundamental force-velocity characteristics of the prototype were investigated using the prototype through experiments, and function of the prototype was verified. Also a real size damper was designed.
c) Active control experiments were conducted using the prototype. Experimental results confirmed that at constant velocities, the damper capacity could be increased by 100%, and piston reactive force can be retained at the prescribed target with satisfactory accuracy. Experimental results also confirmed that under the condition of sinusoidal displacement of the piston, which simulates the real running condition of a passenger train, the piston reactive force can also be retained at the prescribed target. Further, experiments also verified that the piston reactive force could be controlled to follow the preset trace, which suggested that the developed damper can be used to control the jerk.
d) It is also understood that because of the non-uniformity of the ER fluid, in order to obtain higher control accuracy in a wide range, further studies of a more sophisticated control method should be continued.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2006 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2006 2005

All Journal Article (8 results)

  • [Journal Article] 鉄道車両乗り心地を向上するための車両連結器用緩衝器の開発研究2006

    • Author(s)
      王鋒, 小林秀光, 田中真美, 長南征二
    • Journal Title

      日本福祉工学会第9回学術講演会講演論文集

      Pages: 33-34

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report 2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Development of an active vehicle coupler buffer for improving ride comfort of railway trains2006

    • Author(s)
      Feng Wang, Hidemitsu Kobayashi, Mami Tanaka, Seiji Chonan
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 9^<th> conference of the Japan Society of Welfare Engineering

      Pages: 33-34

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Active Electrorheological Damper for Railway Vehicle Couplers2006

    • Author(s)
      F.Wang, M.Tanaka, N.Nagao, T.Hayase, S.Chonan
    • Journal Title

      SPIE Proceedings of International Conference of Mechatronics and Information Technologies (CD) (In press)

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ER流体を用いた能動制御型鉄道車両連結器用緩衝装置の開発2005

    • Author(s)
      王鋒, 永尾修平, 田中真美, 早勢剛, 長南征二
    • Journal Title

      Dynamics & Design Conference 2005 CD-ROM論文集

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Active Electrorheological Damper for Railway Vehicle Couplers2005

    • Author(s)
      F.Wang, M.Tanaka, S.Nagao, T Hayase, S.Chonan
    • Journal Title

      ICMIT 2005 : Control Systems and Robotics,(Y. Wei, K.T.Choi, et al. (eds)), Proc. of SPIE 6042(CD-ROM)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Active Electrorheological Damper for Railway Vehicle Couplers2005

    • Author(s)
      F.Wang, M.Tanaka, S.Nagao, T.Hayase, S.Chonan
    • Journal Title

      ICMIT 2005 : Control Systems and Robotics, (Y.Wei, K.T.Choi, et al. (eds)) Proc. of SPIE Vol.6042

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Dynamics & Design Conference 20052005

    • Author(s)
      Feng Wang, Shuhei Nagao, Mami.Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Hayase, Seiji Chonan
    • Journal Title

      Research on development of an active buffer using electrorheological fluids (CD-ROM)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] ER流体を用いた能動制御型鉄道車両連結器用緩衝装置の開発2005

    • Author(s)
      王鋒, 永尾修平, 田中真美, 早勢剛, 長南征二
    • Journal Title

      Dynamics & Design Conference 2005 CD-ROM論文集

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2005-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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