A New High-Precision General Inverse Model Based on Deep Learning for Magnetorheological Damper

There are several main factors affect damping characteristics of a magnetorheological damper, the influence laws of some ones are eager to change with varying working conditions. Therefore, it is challengable to establish the relationship between the two: influence factors and damping characteristics of the magnetorheological damper. This paper proposed a new deep learning-based general inverse model to predict the required current value of a magnetorheological damper under changing complex working conditions. Specifically, a fully-connected multilayer perceptron was chosen to train the general forward model. The complex and time-varying relationships between the main factors and damping characteristics were accurately characterized on use of the high nonlinear mapping ability of the multilayer perceptron. Compared to most of general forward models, the proposed model was more excellent with an accuracy of 99.73% based on ensuring generality. Besides, the network inversion method was used in the inverse solution of the multilayer perceptron general forward model, which simplified the process of inverse solution without requiring a mass of training data. Furthermore, a genetic algorithm was used to replace the gradient descent method which was commonly used in network inversion, with the benefit of solving the problem of selecting the initial value and step size, as well as improving the accuracy. Simultaneously, the experiments were conducted on the proposed general inverse model, the experimental results, being consistent with the simulation results, demonstrated that the proposed model can accurately predict the control current value and track the required damping force in changing complex working conditions.