Simulation of an Input Shaping Scheme Technique to Investigate Unwanted Noise and Vibration in Wiper Blade

Wiper system in automobile has a potential to generate noises. These noises can be categories into three types namely squeal, chattering and reversal noise. The squeal noiseor squeaky noise appears at frequency 1000 Hz, the chattering noise appears atfrequency 100Hz and lastly is the reversal noiseappears at 500 Hz. These noises lead to poor visibility and annoying sound to the driverand passengers, respectively. This paper describes a control technique that it is capable to reduce the unwanted noise and vibration level in automobile windshield wiper system. In this research, the derivation of two dimensional mathematical modelof wiper system is produced using Newtonian approach and MATLAB/Simulink is used to simulateand analyze thevibration response of the wiper system in time domain andfrequencydomain. In this simulation, an input shapingscheme hasbeen introduced as thecontrol strategy. Thesimulationresult has been verified by comparing with the result obtained using numerical approach analysis. The result shows that input shaping technique can reduce the vibration level to 25 to 30 percents compare the modelwith conventional scheme.