Active Vibration Absorption Using Delayed Resonator With Relative Position Measurement

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Olgac ◽  
M. Hosek

A novel active vibration absorption technique, the Delayed Resonator, has been introduced recently as a unique way of suppressing undesired oscillations. It suggests a control force on a mass-spring-damper absorber in the form of a proportional position feedback with a time delay. Its strengths consist of extremely simple implementation of the control algorithm, total vibration suppression of the primary structure against a harmonic force excitation and full effectiveness of the absorber in a semi-infinite range of disturbance frequency, achieved by real-time tuning. All this development work was done using the absolute displacements of the absorber in the feedback. These measurements, however, may be difficult to obtain and for some applications impossible. This paper deals with the operating and design repercussions caused by the substituting of an easier measurement: the relative motion of the absorber with respect to the primary structure. Although the proposition sounds like a trivial extension to the prior work it gives rise to important concerns such as system stability. Theoretical foundations for the Delayed Resonator (DR) are briefly recapitulated and its implementation on a single-degree-of-freedom primary structure disturbed by a harmonic force is discussed utilizing both absolute and relative position measurement of absorber mass. Methods for stability range analysis and transient behavior are presented as design tools. Properties observed for the same system with these two different feedbacks are compared. Another important advantage of the relative position feature is is to decouple the operation of the absorber from the primary structure entirely.

Author(s):  
Nejat Olgac ◽  
Martin Hosek

Abstract A novel active vibration absorption technique, the Delayed Resonator, has been introduced recently as a unique way of suppressing undesired oscillations. It suggests a control force on a mass-spring-damper absorber in the form of a proportional position feedback with a time delay. Its strengths consist of extremely simple implementation of the control algorithm, total vibration suppression of the primary structure against a harmonic force excitation and full effectiveness of the absorber in a semi-infinite range of disturbance frequency, achieved by real-time tuning. All this development work was done using the absolute displacements of the absorber in the feedback. These displacement measurements may be difficult to obtain and for some applications impossible. This paper deals with a substitute and easier measurement: the relative motion of the absorber with respect to the primary structure. Theoretical foundations for the Delayed Resonator (DR) are briefly recapitulated and its implementation on a single-degree-of-freedom primary structure disturbed by a harmonic force is introduced utilizing both absolute and relative position measurement of absorber mass. Methods for stability range analysis and transient behavior are presented. Properties acquired for the same system with these two different feedback are compared. Relative position measurement case is found to be more advantageous in most applications of the Delayed Resonator method.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nejat Olgac ◽  
Hakan Elmali ◽  
Martin Hosek ◽  
Mark Renzulli

The Delayed Resonator (DR) and Dual Frequency Fixed Delayed Resonator (DFFDR) are newly introduced control techniques for active vibration absorption. Both methods propose a delayed position feedback within the absorber section of the structure to impart ideal resonance features to the absorber. When installed on an oscillating primary body, they form “notch filters” at their resonance frequencies attenuating the response of the primary structure. The DR absorber is shown to be real-time tunable to time varying disturbance frequencies. In this article, a number of new issues are considered. First, the basic theory is modified for acceleration feedback instead of position, which was originally proposed for the DR methodology. Second, the new absorption methods are implemented on distributed parameter structures which are under high frequency excitation (around 1 KHz). Stability of the combined structure is studied on a reduced order multi-degree-of-freedom primary structure together with the DR absorber. Experimental tests are conducted on a steel beam to verify the analytical findings. Piezoelectric actuators are used both to generate harmonic disturbances and to implement the control. The correspondence observed between the theoretical and experimental results is encouraging. The efficiency of the DR and DFFDR absorption techniques is demonstrated.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Huang ◽  
Nejat Olgac

Abstract A novel tuning methodology for active vibration absorption is discussed. The underlying proposition is to use partial state feedback with multiple unrelated time delays. The objective of this tuning is to combat excitation forces with multiple frequencies, which are time varying. It is shown that the required control parameters can be evaluated on-line rather rapidly. The system stability aspect however, needs to be resolved a priori to the control actuation. This is the challenge facing this procedure due to the presence of multiple (and mostly “unrelated”) time delays. A new stability assessment methodology, the Directional Stability Chart method, is presented. The outcome of this procedure is used to determine the local stability levels and preferred operating zones in the domain of the multiple excitation frequencies. The method is also expanded to assess the relative stability level of the tuned absorber. Example case is taken from a PZT actuated active absorber. Desirability of the operating points are compared based on the relative stability levels, and the observations are verified by simulations.


Author(s):  
S. D. Hu ◽  
H. Li ◽  
H. S. Tzou

With the distinct capability of line-focusing, open parabolic cylindrical panels are commonly used as key components of radar antennas, space reflectors, solar collectors, etc. These structures suffer unexpected vibrations from the fluctuation of base structure, non-uniform heating and air flow. The unwanted vibration will reduce the surface reflecting precision and even result in structure damages. To explore active vibration and shape control of parabolic cylindrical panels, this study focuses on actuation effectiveness induced by segmented piezoelectric patches laminated on a flexible parabolic cylindrical panel. The mathematical model of a parabolic cylindrical panel laminated with distributed actuators is formulated. The segmentation technique is developed and applied to parabolic cylindrical panels, and the piezoelectric layer is segmented uniformly in the meridional direction. The distributed actuator patches induced modal control forces are evaluated. As the area of actuator patch varies in the meridional direction, modal control force divided by actuator area, i.e., actuation effectiveness, is investigated. Spatial actuation effectiveness, including its membrane and bending components are evaluated with respect to design parameters: actuator size and position, shell curvature, shell thickness and vibration mode in case studies. The actuation component induced by the membrane force in the meridional direction mainly contributes to the total actuation effectiveness for lower modes. Average and cancellation effect of various actuator sizes and the optimal actuator position are also discussed. Results suggest that for odd vibration modes, the maximal actuation effectiveness locates at the ridge of the panel; while for even modes, the peak/valley closest to the ridge is the optimal position to obtain the maximal actuation effectiveness. A segmentation scheme of the meridian interval angle 0.0464rad for the investigated standard panel is a preferred tradeoff between the actuation effectiveness and practical feasibility. The modal actuation effectiveness increases with the shell curvature, whereas decreases when the shell thickens.


Author(s):  
Kazuto Seto ◽  
Yoshihiro Toba ◽  
Fumio Doi

Abstract In order to realize living comfort of tall buildings by reducing the vibration of higher floors by strong winds, this paper proposes a new method of vibration control for flexible structures with a large scale. The higher a tall building the lower its natural frequency. Since obtaining sufficient force to control the lower frequency vibrations of tall buildings is a difficult task, controlling the vibration of ultra-tall buildings using active dynamic absorbers is nearly impossible. This problem can be overcome by placing actuators between a pair of two or three ultra-tall buildings and using the vibrational force of each building to offset the vibrational movement of its paired mate. Therefore, it is able to obtain enough control force under the low frequency when the proposed method is used. In this paper, a reduced-order model expressed by 2DOF system under taking into consideration for preventing spillover instability is applied to control each flexible structure. The LQ control theory is applied to the design of such a control system. The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated theoretically as well as experimentally.


Author(s):  
Keigo Nakamura ◽  
Nanako Miura ◽  
Akira Sone

In this research, the focus is on the energy problem in active vibration control of a seismic isolation device using self-powered active control that regenerates electric power from kinetic energy of vibration system and uses it as control power. In recent years, it is proposed to install semi-active control or active control in an isolated structure to deal with seismic waves of various periods. However, since energy is required for control, there is a problem that the desired response reduction performance cannot be achieved when energy supply is interrupted at the time of a power outage. In our previous device, power is always given to the motor to control, thus power consumption is high. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to propose input method of control force that can reduce control power while keeping base isolation performance by classifying the role of the control force for each control phase and considering various combinations of input control force.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Wenhao Sun ◽  
Feng Zhang ◽  
Weidong Zhu ◽  
Han Wang ◽  
Shunan Luo ◽  
...  

A modal analysis (MA) was preconsidered to determine a novel active vibration control (AVC) structure of multistage gear transmission system (MGTS) and an appropriate actuating position for the piezoelectric actuator (PZT); the results of the calculating method and the finite element method (FEM) were compared to validate the reliability of MA. The controllers based on different control algorithms were designed to drive the PZTs to output the control force for suppressing the host structure vibrations. To analyze the feasibility of the applied control schemes and discuss the control effects dominated by the different control algorithms, a series of active vibration control numerical simulations were studied. The cosimulation results validate the practicability of the proposed control schemes and provide a forcible guidance for the further experimental works.


Author(s):  
S. D. Hu ◽  
H. Li ◽  
H. S. Tzou

Open parabolic cylindrical panel plays a key role in radial collection and transmission applied to radar antennas, space reflectors, solar collectors, etc. Piezoelectric active vibration control can suppress unexpected fluctuation and maintain precision surface and operations. This study aims to investigate the distributed actuation behavior of adaptive open parabolic cylindrical panels using piezoelectric actuator patches. Motion equations of parabolic cylindrical panels laminated with a piezoelectric patch is presented first. Then, the actuator induced modal control force is derived with an assumed mode shape function. As the area of actuator patch varies due to the curvature change, the normalized actuation effectiveness (i.e., modal control force divided by actuator area) is further evaluated. When the actuator area shrinks to infinitesimal, the expression of microscopic point modal control force is obtained to theoretically predict the actuation distribution behavior. The actuation behaviors of the total control force and its components exhibit distinct characteristics with respect to shell geometries, modes and actuator properties. Analyses show that the control force component contributed by the membrane force dominates the total control effect. The bending-contributed component increases with corresponding vibration mode number, while the membrane-contributed component decreases. Three shell geometries from shallow to deep are evaluated in case studies. Analysis of optimal actuator location shows that actuators are preferred to locate where the curvature of shell panel is larger in order to maximize the control effectiveness.


1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ying ◽  
C. A. Tan

Active vibration control of an axially moving string using space feedforward and feedback controllers is presented. Closed-form results for the transverse response of both the uncontrolled and controlled string are given in the s domain. The space feedforward controller is established by employing the idea of wave cancellation. The proposed control law indicates that vibration in the region downstream of the control force can be cancelled. With the space feedforward control, the mode shapes of the axially moving string are changed such that the free response tends to zero in the downstream region. An interesting physical interpretation is that the control force acts effectively as a holder (active support) which limits the vibration of the string to the upstream region and eliminates any vibration in the downstream region. Simulation results show that the response of the string to both sinusoidal and random excitations is suppressed by applying the space feedforward control. The feedback controller is introduced to attenuate the response of the string due to undesired disturbances in the downstream.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1070-1072 ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Hong Tao Shan ◽  
Bin Zhou

Digital control possesses evident advantages and has become a mainstream control of photovoltaic grid connected inverter.The mathematical model and parameter setting of the single phase photovoltaic grid connected inverter with L filter was introduced in the paper.It was analysed on the effect on system stability of digital process from the two aspects which were the zero-order-hold and one-step-delay control. The bode diagram was verified the theoretical analysis on system stability.The conclusions were made that the introduction of digital control reduces the critical stable gain of photovoltaic grid connected inverter system,system stability is varied with sample time, the parameters of L can affect the system stability range,zero-order-hold reduces the stability range and limits the performance improved of digital control system,one-step-delay control on photovoltaic grid connected inverter reduces again the stability range on the basis of the zero-order-hold control.


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