Improvement of Ride Comfort Quality for an Earth-Moving machinery with Semi-Active Cab Isolation System

Improving ride comfort of earth-moving machinery is important to avoid potential health hazards for machine operator. A vehicle - road coupled interaction model including vehicle body, cab body and driver seat masses is set up under the random excitation of ground surface and a Fuzzy –PID controller is designed for control of the damping coefficient of a semi-active hydraulic cab isolation system (SHCIs) for an earth-moving machinery. The ride performance of SHCIs with a combined controller is evaluated under different movement conditions. The comparison results indicate that the proposed controller for semi-active cab hydraulic isolation system has the significantly improved vehicle ride comfort in compared with passive hydraulic cab isolation system (PHCIs) under large amplitude and low frequency excitations of ground surface.