Active vibration control of a three-stage tensegrity structure

Wai Leung Chan; Diego Arbelaez; Frederic Bossens; Robert E Skelton

doi:10.1117/12.540144

29 July 2004 Active vibration control of a three-stage tensegrity structure

Wai Leung Chan, Diego Arbelaez, Frederic Bossens, Robert E Skelton

Proceedings Volume 5386, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Damping and Isolation; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540144
Event: Smart Structures and Materials, 2004, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This experimental study demonstrates the efficiency of simple control strategies to damp a 3-stage tensegrity tower structure. The tower is mounted on a moving support which is excited with a limited bandwidth random signal (filtered white noise) by a shaker. Our goal is to minimize the tansmissibility between base acceleration and top plate acceleration using piezoelectric displacement actuators and force sensors collocated at the bottom stage of vertical strings. Two types of controllers have been designed, namely, it local integral force feedback control and acceleration feedback control. It can be shown that both controllers can effectively damp the first 2 bending modes by about 20 dB, and the acceleration feedback controller performs even better as it can also reduce the amplitude of the next 2 bending modes by about 5-10 dB.

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Wai Leung Chan, Diego Arbelaez, Frederic Bossens, and Robert E Skelton "Active vibration control of a three-stage tensegrity structure", Proc. SPIE 5386, Smart Structures and Materials 2004: Damping and Isolation, (29 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.540144

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