Vibration Suppression of Flexible Structures Using the Infinite Dimensional Laplace Domain Approach

Author(s):  
Lea Sirota ◽  
Irit Peled ◽  
Yoram Halevi

The problem of obtaining an explicit, exact response of a flexible system to initial distributed input in infinite dimensional modeling is considered. The paper proposes a method to present the response in terms of propagating waves that are reflected from boundaries with general conditions. The result is then examined under control with the absolute vibration suppression (AVS) controller, which was originally designed for a concentrated input. It is shown that the vibration suppression properties of this controller are extended to systems with distributed input.

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Sirota ◽  
Yoram Halevi

The paper considers the problem of suppressing the free vibration, induced by nonzero initial conditions, in a flexible system governed by the wave equation. First an exact response of the system, with general linear boundary conditions, is derived in terms of propagating waves that are reflected from the boundaries. The solution is explicit and with clear physical interpretation. The general expressions for the response are then used to investigate the behavior of the system under control with the absolute vibration suppression controller, which was originally designed for tracking control. It is shown that the vibration suppression properties of this controller apply also to nonzero initial conditions. In cases where the load end is free or contains only damping, the vibration stops completely in finite time and if it contains only inertia and damping it decays exponentially without vibration.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 2656-2670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teerawat Sangpet ◽  
Suwat Kuntanapreeda ◽  
Rüdiger Schmidt

Flexible structures have been increasingly utilized in many applications because of their light-weight and low production cost. However, being flexible leads to vibration problems. Vibration suppression of flexible structures is a challenging control problem because the structures are actually infinite-dimensional systems. In this paper, an adaptive control scheme is proposed for the vibration suppression of a piezo-actuated flexible beam. The controller makes use of the configuration of the prominent proportional-integral-derivative controller and is derived using an infinite-dimensional Lyapunov method. In contrast to existing schemes, the present scheme does not require any approximated finite-dimensional model of the beam. Thus, the stability of the closed loop system is guaranteed for all vibration modes. Experimental results have illustrated the feasibility of the proposed control scheme.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Song ◽  
B. Kotejoshyer ◽  
J. Fei

Abstract This paper presents a new approach of integrating the method of command input shaping and the technique of active vibration suppression for vibration reduction of flexible structures during slew operations. The control object is a flexible composite beam driven by a high torque DC motor with the presence of nonlinearities such as backlash and stick-slip type of friction. Two piezoelectric patches are bonded on the surface of the flexible beam near its cantilevered end and are used as the smart actuator and the smart sensor respectively. In this new approach, the method of command input shaping is used to modify the existing command so that less vibration will be caused by the command itself. To overcome the nonlinearities associated with the DC motor, an extended shaper is designed. The technique of active vibration suppression using smart materials is used to actively control the vibration during and after the slew. With this pair of smart actuator and smart sensor, a strain rate feedback (SRF) controller is designed for active vibration suppression. With the extended Zero Vibration Derivative (ZVD) shaper and the SRF controller, the proposed new approach can effectively reduce the vibration of the flexible beam during slew operations.


2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632096194
Author(s):  
Haining Sun ◽  
Xiaoqiang Tang ◽  
Senhao Hou ◽  
Xiaoyu Wang

Specific satellites with ultralong wings play a crucial role in many fields. However, external disturbance and self-rotation could result in undesired vibrations of the flexible wings, which affect the normal operation of the satellites. In severe cases, the satellites would be damaged. Therefore, it is imperative to conduct vibration suppression for these flexible structures. Utilizing fuzzy-proportional integral derivative control and deep reinforcement learning (DRL), two active control methods are proposed in this article to rapidly suppress the vibration of flexible structures with quite small controllable force based on a cable-driven parallel robot. Inspired by the output law of DRL, a new control method named Tang and Sun control is innovatively presented based on the Lyapunov theory. To verify the effectiveness of these three control methods, three groups of simulations with different initial disturbances are implemented for each method. Besides, to enhance the contrast, a passive pretightening scheme is also tested. First, the dynamic model of the cable-driven parallel robot which comprises four cables and a flexible structure is established using the finite element method. Then, the dynamic behavior of the model under the controllable cable force is analyzed by the Newmark-ß method. Finally, these control methods are implemented by numerical simulations to evaluate their performance, and the results are satisfactory, which validates the controllers’ ability to suppress vibrations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (08) ◽  
pp. 2050095
Author(s):  
Yifan Lu ◽  
Qi Shao ◽  
Fei Yang ◽  
Honghao Yue ◽  
Rongqiang Liu

Different kinds of membrane structures have been proposed for future space exploration and earth observation. However, due to the low stiffness, high flexibility, and low damping properties, membrane structures are likely to generate large-amplitude (compared to the thickness) vibrations, which may lead to the degradation of their working performance. In this work, the governing equations are established at first, taking into account the modal control force induced by the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) actuator. The optimal vibration control of the membrane structure is explored subsequently. A square PVDF actuator is attached on the membrane to achieve the vibration suppression. The influence of actuator position and control gains on the vibration control performance are studied. The optimal criteria for actuator placement and energy allocation are developed. Several case studies are numerically simulated to demonstrate the validity of the proposed optimization criteria. The analytical results in this study can serve as guidelines for optimal vibration control of membrane structures. Additionally, the proposed optimization criteria can be applied to active control of different flexible structures.


2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven W. Shaw ◽  
Christophe Pierre

This paper describes an analytical investigation of the dynamic response and performance of impact vibration absorbers fitted to flexible structures that are attached to a rotating hub. This work was motivated by experimental studies at NASA, which demonstrated the effectiveness of these types of absorbers for reducing resonant transverse vibrations in periodically excited rotating plates. Here we show how an idealized model can be used to describe the essential dynamics of these systems, and used to predict absorber performance. The absorbers use centrifugally induced restoring forces so that their nonimpacting dynamics are tuned to a given order of rotation, whereas their large amplitude dynamics involve impacts with the primary flexible system. The linearized, nonimpacting dynamics are first explored in detail, and it is shown that the response of the system has some rather unique features as the hub rotor speed is varied. A class of symmetric impacting motions is also analyzed and used to predict the effectiveness of the absorber when operating in its impacting mode. It is observed that two different types of grazing bifurcations take place as the rotor speed is varied through resonance, and their influence on absorber performance is described. The analytical results for the symmetric impacting motions are also used to generate curves that show how important absorber design parameters—including mass, coefficient of restitution, and tuning—affect the system response. These results provide a method for quickly evaluating and comparing proposed absorber designs.


Volume 1 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarice Wagner-Nachshoni ◽  
Yoram Halevi

A method of noncollocated controller design for non-uniform flexible structures, governed by the wave equation, is proposed. An exact, infinite dimensional, transfer function, relating the actuation and measurement points, with general boundary conditions, is derived for the multi-link case. Three modeling methods are presented and discussed. A key element of the model is the existence of time delays, due to the wave motion, which play a major role in the controller design. The design consists of two stages. First an inner rate loop is closed in order to improve the system dynamic behavior. It leads to a finite dimensional plus delay inner closed loop, which is the equivalent plant for the outer loop. In the second stage an outer noncollocated position loop is closed. It has the structure of an observer–predictor control scheme to compensate for the response delay. The resulting overall transfer function is second order, with arbitrarily assigned dynamics, plus delay.


Author(s):  
H. Gu ◽  
G. Song

Positive position feedback (PPF) control is widely used in active vibration control of flexible structures. To ensure the vibration is quickly suppressed, a large PPF scalar gain is often applied in a PPF controller. However, PPF control with a large scalar gain causes initial overshoot, which is undesirable in many situations. In this paper, a fuzzy gain tuner is proposed to tune the gain in the positive position feedback control to reduce the initial overshoot while still maintaining a quick vibration suppression. The fuzzy system is trained by the desired input-output data sets by batch least squares algorithm so that the trained fuzzy system can behave like the training data. A 3.35 meter long I-beam with piezoceramic patch sensors and actuators is used as the experimental object. The experiments include the standard PPF control, standard PPF control with traditional fuzzy gain tuning, and PPF control with batch least squares fuzzy gain tuning. Experimental results clearly demonstrate that PPF control with batch least squares fuzzy gain tuner behaves much better than the other two in terms of successfully reducing the initial overshoot and quickly suppressing vibration.


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