scholarly journals EMBEDDED COMPUTER BASED ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VIBRATION REDUCTION OF FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 838-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatavolu
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Vibration Control ◽  
Active Vibration Control ◽  
Vibration Reduction ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Embedded Computer ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Active Vibration

Active vibration control of structures using a leader–follower-based consensus design

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Omidi ◽  
S Nima Mahmoodi
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Vibration Control ◽  
Active Vibration Control ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Distributed Parameter ◽  
Arbitrary Form ◽  
Piezoelectric Layers ◽  
Active Vibration ◽  
System States ◽  
Virtual Leader

This paper proposes a new leader–follower-based consensus vibration controller to actively suppress unwanted oscillations in distributed-parameter flexible structures. Actuation and sensing is performed via piezoelectric layers in a collocated sense. The actuator/sensor patches for the vibration control system are considered to collaborate in a network, and follow a virtual leader which is accessible to all agents. Hence, a vibration controller law is defined, to remove disagreement between agents and force the agents to follow the virtual leader. The proposed approach is an observer-based design, in which an optimal consensus state estimator is initially designed. Stability of the closed-loop system is investigated and the optimality conditions of the system are derived. Although the designed vibration controller could be implemented for suppression tasks in different distributed-parameter systems, a flexible clamped-clamped beam is used here for equation derivation and numerical performance verification. According to the results, the optimal observer estimates the system states in a finite time, as expected, and the vibration controller suppresses unwanted oscillations, either in resonant or arbitrary form, to a much lower level; while the disagreement between agents converges to zero. Additionally, suppression performance and robustness of the controller to failure in control system elements is investigated in comparison with a conventional positive position feedback controller, and its superiority is illustrated and discussed.

Experiment Verification of Seismic Isolation Device Having Charging Function

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Yamaguchi ◽  
Hayato Nakakoji ◽  
Nanako Miura ◽  
Akira Sone
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Vibration Control ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Seismic Isolation ◽  
Active Vibration Control ◽  
Vibration Reduction ◽  
Large Earthquake ◽  
Energy Regeneration ◽  
Active Vibration ◽  
Isolation Device

In late years, many base isolated structures are planned as seismic design, because they suppress vibration response significantly against large earthquake. In addition, to achieve greater safety, semi-active or active vibration control system is installed in the structures as. Semi-active and active vibration control systems are more effective to large earthquake than passive one vibration control system in terms of vibration reduction. However semi-active and active vibration control systems cannot operate as required when external power supply is cut off. To solve the problem of energy consumption, we propose a self-powered active seismic isolation device which achieves active control system using regenerated vibration energy. This device doesn’t require external energy to produce control force. The purpose of this paper is to propose the seismic isolation device having charging function and verified its performance by experiment. In our previous research[1], we proposed the new model and optimized the control system and passive elements such as spring coefficients and damping coefficients using genetic algorithm. As a result, we proposed the model which is superior to the previous model in terms of vibration reduction and energy regeneration. In this study, we conducted an experiment and show its results. As a results, we confirmed the vibration reduction and energy regeneration of the seismic isolation device having charging function.

Structural Vibration Control for Bridge Towers and its Effect Under Wind Excitation Using a Wind Tunnel

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumio Doi ◽  
Kazuto Seto ◽  
Mingzhang Ren ◽  
Yuzi Gatate
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Vibration Control ◽  
Active Vibration Control ◽  
Flexible Structures ◽  
Structural Vibration ◽  
Magnetic Actuators ◽  
Displacement Sensors ◽  
Active Vibration ◽  
Electro Magnetic ◽  
Tower Model

Abstract In this paper we present an experimental investigation of active vibration control of a scaled bridge tower model under artificial wind excitation. The control scheme is designed on the basis of a reduced order model of the flexible structures using the LQ control theory, with a collocation of four laser displacement sensors and two hybrid electro-magnetic actuators. The experimental results in the wind tunnel show that both the bending and the twisting vibrations covering the first five modes of the structure are controlled well.

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