4. Conclusion

The control of undesirable vibrations of the rail car system in 6 degrees of freedom was carried out using the PID control system. The initial displacement and vertical acceleration that characterize the performance of the system on encountering rail and load disturbances were minimized with the iterative adjustment of the PID controller according to Nichols-Ziegler tuning rules. In addition, the performance of the control and the rail car system in terms of the input step response, bandwidth, frequency, phase margin and input and output rejections was within the acceptable range. Hence, the PID control system shows significant robustness in providing the required active control for the system, while the rail car system shows improved stability and reduction in vibration under control action of the PID, thus improving ride comfort. However, a single PID may not sufficiently satisfy all the design requirements at the same time resulting in performance trade-off. However, Fuzzy PID or ISA-PID controller can be used to meet the design requirements significantly. This will further improve the performance and robustness of the rail car system.

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Ilesanmi Afolabi Daniyan\* and Khumbulani Mpofu

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Vibration Analysis and Control in the Rail Car System Using PID Controls

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