We study a time-delayed feedback control for initiating period-1 rotations of a vertically excited parametric pendulum from arbitrary initial conditions. The possibility of controlling the direction of rotation has also been explored. We start with a simple linear time-delayed control for which the control gain corresponding to the most stable period-1 rotation has been obtained using the Floquet theory. This control increases the basins of attraction of rotations, but they do not encompass the full initial condition space. We modify our control law by using a switched control gain that destabilizes all the oscillatory solutions, and the entire initial condition space becomes the basin of attraction of either the clockwise or the anticlockwise rotation. By a suitable modification of the switching condition, we can choose a preferential stable direction of rotation. Hence, we can initiate either clockwise or anticlockwise rotation for a parametric pendulum from arbitrary initial conditions. Performance of our controller in achieving this objective has been demonstrated for different sets of parameters to establish its effectiveness.
We propose and analyse the feasibility of extracting energy from vortex-induced vibrations using rotating motion of an attached pendulum. The resulting autoparametric pendulum system is studied primarily to understand the effect of pendulum motion on the performance of the harvester which is typically ignored to result in a simple parametric pendulum. We find that rotating motions are possible only for small values of the pendulum mass when compared with the effective mass of the vibrating structure. However, the pendulum motion reduces the basin of attraction as well as the range of system parameters corresponding to the existence of rotary solutions. This significantly alters the harvester performance. By contrast, the evolution of the pendulum coordinates (angular position and velocity) remains largely unaffected by this interaction. Hence, for the purpose of design of controllers to robustly initiate/maintain rotation from arbitrary disturbances, the simplification to a parametric pendulum is reasonable while for the design of the harvester, this exercise is completely unsatisfactory.
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