In the paper, the Electrorheological fluid(ERF) is embedded in the pneumatic vibration isolator and three kinds of control systems are designed, which experimental results are also compared. The first kind of the control system is the semi-active control system, which is designed for ERF controllable damper. The second kind of the control system is the active control system, which is designed f...

This study presents a synthesis scheme on a target history for the simultaneous control of position and vibration of a space robotic manipulator with a flexible arm. As an essential problem in the manipulator with a flexible arm, its vibration is easily induced by self-motion and external disturbance. Therefore, in this study, the authors develop the long, lightweight and forceful manipulator f...

In this work, active vibration control of an underwater cylindrical shell structure was investigated, to suppress structural vibration and structure-borne noise in water. Finite element modeling of the submerged cylindrical shell structure was developed, and experimentally evaluated. Modal reduction was conducted to obtain the reduced system equation for the active feedback control algorithm. T...

Studies in healthy volunteers and patients with renal failure have shown that vibration, applied with a frequency of 47 Hz and a vibrational intensity of 600 mVpp, increases microcirculation of blood in the skin. This controlled, in vivo, experimental study was conducted to further evaluate the effect of vibration on skin microcirculation and to ascertain whether administration of a nitric oxid...

In the paper, the design of a linear motor as an actuator in vehicle active suspension systems will be presented. The attention is focused on several interesting design aspects of the non-traditional actuator (linear synchronous permanent magnet motor with electronic commutation) controlled to obtain a variable mechanical force for a car damper. The main advantage of such a solution is the poss...

A nonlinear optimal control method is developed for magnetostrictive actuators used to actively attenuate plate vibration. Significant improvements in vibration control can be achieved when the magnetostrictive actuators are driven at moderate to high field levels. This results in nonlinearity and hysteresis which cannot be effectively compensated using linear control theory. This issue is addr...

In this paper, vibration control of a nonlinear string system is considered. The system consists of a nonlinear string, two boundary supporting mechanisms, and a moving transporter at the base. To suppress the vibration, boundary control designs are carried out. A new robust and adaptive boundary controller is designed using the Lyapunov direct method. The proposed control is implemented at the...

sacrificed, efficient controls have to be studied and developed. Feedback control techniques use measurement and estimates of the system states for control of rigid-body motion and vibration suppression. In this case, using measurements at the hub and end-point of the manipulator as the basis for applying control torque at the hub will allow control of the end-point position. Thus, feedback con...