Browsing by Subject "active vibration control"

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Active rotor vibration control
(2013) Vitečková, Miluše; Víteček, Antonín; Tůma, Jiří
The article deals with the analysis of active vibration control of a rotor which is supported by journal bearings. The oil fi lm between the journal and bushing induces the rotor instability, which causes rotor vibrations if rotational speed is greater than a threshold of system stability. This phenomenon is very important for high-speed rotational machines for which restricts the operational range of the rotational speed. Therefore increasing the rotor stability threshold is very important for preventing rotor vibrations. The rotor instability results in lateral vibrations which do not conform to the forces of the unbalanced masses or other external forces. The frequency of the lateral vibration is slightly less than half of the rotational frequency. The main result of the article is the analytical determination of the infl uence of the setting of the PD type controller on the threshold of stability.
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Active vibration control system for 3D mechanical structures
(2011) Koszewnik, Andrzej Piotr; Gosiewski, Zdzisław
The active vibration control system for 3D mechanical structures is presented in the paper. The steel space framework which consists of 126 steel bars and 44 aluminium joints is a subject of our investigations. It is equipped in two piezoelectric stacks which are a part of chosen vertical bars in a plane X-Z. Bars, joints and piezo-stacks have got glue connections. The mathematical model was decoupled to change Two Input Two Output (TITO) system into two Single Input Single Output (SISO) systems. Such approach allowed us to design simple control laws with help of computer simulation procedure. In the last chapter the investigations on the laboratory stand of the active vibration control system with local controllers PD are described. Experimental results have proved that these PD controllers work good increasing the damping level. Additional damp in the system causes the excellent vibration reduction for the whole mechanical structure.
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Rejection of harmonic and transient disturbances of a smart structure with piezoelectric actuators
(2013) Duarte Vera, Franklyn Gerardo; Ballesteros, Pablo; Shu, Xinyu; Bohn, Christian
Light flexible structures are easily prone to vibrate due to external forces or due to forces generated in the inner structure. This situation is common in machinery or mechanical structures with rotational devices. The unwanted vi-bration of such structures can be compensated with the addition of piezoelectric actuators for active vibration control (AVC). The rejection of harmonic disturbances is frequently done with controllers based on the internal model principle. The goal of this research is to reduce the effect of harmonic disturbances with known (measured) time-varying fre¬quencies acting on a system as well as to increase the damping of the system for the transient response (first mode of vibration). The experimental setup is made up of a slender aluminium flexible beam, a pair of piezoelectric actuators, an accelerometer and two DC motors, as well as the data acquisition and signal conditioning equipment. The harmonic disturbance is generated by DC motors. The control design utilizes an augmented description of the plant. The plant including the disturbance is modelled as a polytopic linear parameter-varying (pLPV) system. An observer-based gain-scheduling controller is calculated based on quadratic stability and the stability is guaranteed for the specified range ofvariation of the scheduling parameters, also restriction in the performance is introduced in the sense of the H2-norm. Experimental results show very good disturbance cancellation.