Dynamic analysis of high speed maglev vehicle-guideway system using SIMULINK

Introduction of Magnetically levitated (MAGLEV) vehicles in urban ground transportation offers various challenges in design and control of the vehicle and guideway parameters. The research output in this field is increasing day by day; however, there is still the necessity of finding simpler and cost-effective analysis that can be adopted in practical design. In the present paper, dynamic analysis of MAGLEV-Guideway system has been carried out using SIMULINK in MATLAB toolbox. Two models - (i) vehicle being idealized as a series of moving forces (ii) a two degree of freedom double sprung-mass model of vehicle has been considered in the analysis. The guideway has been modelled as a single span, simply supported beam. The influence of vehicle speed on guideway response has been studied and the results have shown that guideway and car-body response generally increase with increasing velocity. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.