International Journal of Engineering and Technology

This paper proposes the Multi Objective Optimization (MOO) of Vehicle Active Suspension System (VASS) with a hybrid Differential Evolution (DE) based Biogeography-Based Optimization (BBO) (DEBBO) for the parameter tuning of Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller. Initially a conventional PID controller, secondly a BBO, an rising nature enthused global optimization procedure based on the study of the ecological distribution of biological organisms and a hybridized DEBBO algorithm which inherits the behaviours of BBO and DE have been used to find the tuning parameters of the PID controller to improve the performance of VASS by considering a MOO function as the performance index. Simulations of passive system, active system having PID controller with and without optimizations have been performed by considering dual and triple bump kind of road disturbances in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The simulation results show the effectiveness of DEBBO based PID (DEBBOPID) in achieving the goal.