The semi-active suspension system can instantly change the damping coefficient depending in order to ‘stiffen’ or ‘soften’ the system. It will effectively and timely eliminate road disturbances on the car body. Thus, research on the semi-active suspension system is necessary. According to the performance test of the proposed adjustable damper, the different damping coefficients can be selected ...

In this paper two robust H∞ feedback control laws are designed, one for active wing bending damping, and one for active damping of the wing and hull bending modes. For the latter, not only symmetrically commanded ailerons are used, but also the elevator and direct lift control (DLC) flaps. The control objective of these feedback laws is the reduction of fatigue of the wing roots, as well as the...

Transducers for ultrasonic sensing and measurement are often operated with a short burst signal, example few cycles at specific excitation voltage frequency on the generating transducer. The vibration response of narrowband transducer in detection is usually dominated by resonant ringing, severely affecting its ability to detect two or more signals arriving receiver similar times. Prior researc...

Force control implemented by a passive mechanical device (perhaps a wrist) has inherent advantages over active implementations. A passive mechanical device can regain some of the versatility of its active counterpart if it incorporates mechanical elements with programmable parameters, e.g. damping coefficients or spring stiffnesses. We wish to characterize the range of accommodation matrices th...

Piezoelectric tube scanners are the actuators of choice in scanning probe microscopy. These nanopositioners exhibit a dominant first resonant mode that is excited due to harmonics of the input scan signal. This introduces errors in the scan obtained. The presence of this resonant mode limits the upper bound of a triangular scan rate to around 1/100th of the first mechanical resonance frequency....

In this paper, we consider the implementation of a static H∞ output feedback controller to a quarter vehicle suspension system with a semi-active magnetorheological fluid (MRF) damper. Unlike most of the existing literature, all the states in the equation of motion are relative displacements and velocities between sprung, unsprung masses and road disturbance instead, in addition the input to th...

Abstract: This paper proposes the active damping control strategy for position sensorless operation of an interior permanent magnet (IPM) motor. The proposed method is applied to both the current controller and the position estimator to control damping characteristics of the IPM drive system. By actively increasing the damping characteristics of the system with the proposed method, the current ...