Study on Vibration Control Device Using Power Generator

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takafumi Ohtake ◽  
Katsuaki Sunakoda ◽  
Taichi Matsuoka
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Control ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Random Motion ◽  
Ball Screw ◽  
Structural Vibration ◽  
Damping Force ◽  
Power Generator ◽  
Sinusoidal Input

In this paper, the authors propose a vibration control device using power generator in order to develop a small damper which is suitable for structural vibration control in space. The vibration control device consists of a ball screw, piston, ball nut, gear, power generator, and rod ends. The linear motion of the piston is converted into a rotary motion by the ball screw, and then the electric power is generated as dissipation of energy. A very low sinusoidal input displacement is applied to the device, and the characteristics of the damping force are examined with open circuit and short circuit of the generator. Experimental results are compared with theoretical results. Numerical simulation is applied to a flexible structure, by using sinusoidal input motion, and random motion.

Simultaneous Optimal Design of the Lyapunov-Based Semi-Active Control and the Semi-Active Vibration Control Device: Inverse Lyapunov Approach

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiko Hiramoto ◽  
Taichi Matsuoka ◽  
Akira Fukukita ◽  
Katsuaki Sunakoda
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Design ◽  
Lyapunov Function ◽  
Vibration Control ◽  
Active Control ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Ball Screw ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Resistance Force ◽  
Control Law ◽  
Lyapunov Approach

We address a simultaneous optimal design problem of a semi-active control law and design parameters in a vibration control device for civil structures. The Vibration Control Device (VCD) that is being developed by authors is used as the semi-active control device in the present paper. The VCD is composed of a mechanism of a ball screw with a flywheel for the inertial resistance force and an electric motor with an electric circuit for the damping resistance force. A new bang-bang type semi-active control law referred to as Inverse Lyapunov Approach is proposed as the semi-active control law. In the Inverse Lyapunov Approach the Lyapunov function is searched so that performance measures in structural vibration control are optimized in the premise of the bang-bang type semi-active control based on the Lyapunov function. The design parameters to determine the Lyapunov function and the design parameters of the VCD are optimized for the good performance of the semi-active control system. The Genetic Algorithm is employed for the optimal design.

scholarly journals Study on Vibration Control Device Using Power Generator

2007 ◽  
Vol 73 (735) ◽  
pp. 2926-2931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taichi MATSUOKA ◽  
Katsuaki SUNAKODA ◽  
Kazuhiko HIRAMOTO ◽  
Takafumi OHTAKE
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Control ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Power Generator

Seismic Performance of Vibration Control Device That Generates Power

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taichi Matsuoka ◽  
Katsuaki Sunakoda ◽  
Kazuhiko Hiramoto ◽  
Issei Yamazaki ◽  
Akira Fukukita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Control ◽  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Vibration Suppression ◽  
Experimental Testing ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Ball Screw ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Wide Range

In a previous paper the authors proposed a semi-active vibration control device (VCD) that generates power. The device utilizes a ball screw, and has inertial and damping forces. The damping coefficient is adjusted by altering resistance at the terminal of the power generator. A small-scale VCD was manufactured for experimental testing. Frequency responses of a small-scale spring mass structure were measured in order to confirm the effects of vibration suppression within a wide range of frequencies. In this paper, as the next step, vibration tests using a benchmark structure with an installed VCD that has a 30 kN capacity are carried out at the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) in Taiwan. The benchmark structure has three stories with a 3 m height and a mass of 6 tons at each floor level for a total height and weight of 9 m and 18 tons, respectively. The VCDs are installed between adjacent floors with steel chevron braces. A simple control law that is based on a minimized Lyapunov function and employs bang-bang operation is used as a variable current controller instead of the modifying the resistance level of the VCD. Scaled earthquake motions including the Imperial Valley El Centro north-south component that is normalized to be a peak level of 0.5 m/s2, are applied to the base of the steel framed structure in the horizontal direction by a shaking table. Experimental responses of each floor for the uncontrolled and controlled cases are compared with analytical responses, and effects of vibration suppression for the large-scale model are discussed quantitatively.

scholarly journals A New Electrical Circuit With Negative Capacitances to Enhance Resistive Shunt Damping

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Berardengo ◽  
Stefano Manzoni ◽  
Olivier Thomas ◽  
Christophe Giraud-Audine
Keyword(s):  
Electromechanical Coupling ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Electromechanical Coupling Factor ◽  
Coupling Factor ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Electrical Circuit ◽  
Structural Vibration ◽  
Electrical Network ◽  
Negative Capacitance ◽  
Shunt Damping

This article proposes a new layout of electrical network based on two negative capacitance circuits, aimed at increasing the performances of a traditional resistive piezoelectric shunt for structural vibration reduction. It is equivalent to artificially increase the modal electromechanical coupling factor of the electromechanical structure by both decreasing the short-circuit natural frequencies and increasing the open-circuit ones. This leads to higher values of the modal electromechanical coupling factor with respect to simple negative capacitance configurations, when the same margin from stability is considered. This technique is shown to be powerful in enhancing the control performance when associated to a simple resistive shunt, usually avoided because of its poor performances.

Passive and Active Vibration Control With Piezoelectric Fiber Composites

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Vigier ◽  
Amen Agbossou ◽  
Claude Richard
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Control ◽  
Electrical Impedance ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Mechanical Energy ◽  
Short Circuit ◽  
Active Vibration Control ◽  
Fiber Composites ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Beam Experiment ◽  
Piezoelectric Fiber

The possibility of dissipating mechanical energy with piezoelectric fiber composites (PFC) is investigated. The techniques for manufacturing an active beam with integrated (PFC) are presented and applied to a cantilevered beam experiment. We evaluated experimentally the performances of the active beam in passive energy dissipation. Three vibration cases were analysed: electrodes of the PFCs are (i) in open circuit, (ii) short circuit and (iii) shunted with electrical impedance designed to dissipate the electrical energy, which has been converted from the beam mechanical energy by the PFCs. Then we presented numerical models to analyze the vibration of active beams connect to electrical impedance. The proposed models point out with an accurate order of magnitude the change in vibration amplitude of the analysed beam. Hence we validate experimentally and numerically the concept of vibration control with PFCs and point out some new contributions of PFCs in active or passive damping.

447 Development and Research of Vibration Control Device Using Power Generator for Structure

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (0) ◽  
pp. _447-1_-_447-6_ ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuaki SUNAKODA ◽  
Taichi MATSUOKA ◽  
Kazuhiko HIRAMOTO
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Control ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Power Generator
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